The Foundation Stage is a distinct phase of Early Years education that takes place from when a child is born until they are five.
At Comper we follow the statutory Early Years Foundation Stage Framework 2023. This under pins all that we do. The EYFS Framework has seven areas of learning:
Three Prime Areas:
- Personal, Social and Emotional development
- Communication and Language
- Physical Development.
- Mathematics
- Literacy
- Understanding of the World
- Expressive Arts and Design.
- Spark the children's curiosity in the world around them,
- Celebrate the diverse community they are from
- Support them to be courageous in the risks they take in their learning
- Foster a life long love of learning
- Be aspirational to give them the best start to their early education and ensure they are ready to move confidently on to reception and year one at the end of their time with us.
- Assessment - We observe your child closely in their play, assessing the next steps they need to make developmentally; how we can extend their skills and knowledge
- We track your child on our progression ladders which are based on some key developmental markers linked to our curriculum. You can see our progression ladders under our curriuclum tab.
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Two Year Check -Your child will have a 2 year old developmental check. This is an assessment that their key person will make of their development. They will share the outcome of this with you. THis does not replace the Health Visitor 2 year check, it is in addition to it.
- Pupil Progress Meetings - 4 times a year the adults make a summative judgement about whether your child is developing steadily in line with their age. We use Birth to 5 matters age ranges to guide us on this judgement.
- It is fun and children have a right to play (recognised in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child (1989))
- It supports their wellbeing
- It promotes deep involvement in their learning
- Develops independence and self confidence
- Provides opportunities for developing key skills and knowledge across all areas of the curriculum
- communicating and modelling language;
- showing, explaining, demonstrating
- exploring ideas; encouraging, questioning, recalling; providing a narrative for what the children are doing
- facilitating and setting challenges.