EYFS
Foundation Stage at Lime Tree Primary Academy
When children start at Lime Tree, the Academic year in which they turn five they access the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum where children learn through play.
Our children explore and develop learning experiences, which help them make sense of the world. They practise and build up ideas, and learn how to control themselves and understand the need for rules.
They have the opportunity to think creatively alongside other children as well as on their own. They communicate with others as they investigate and solve problems.
Throughout the year children carry out activities which link to the seven areas of development these are
- Communication and Language,
- Physical Development
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the World
- Expressive Arts and Design
In our school we believe that all our children matter. We give our children every opportunity to achieve their best. We do this by taking account of our children’s range of life experiences when planning for their learning.
In the EYFS we set realistic and challenging expectations that meet the needs of our children. We achieve this by planning to meet the needs of boys and girls, children with special educational needs, children who are more able, children with disabilities, children from all social and cultural backgrounds, children of different ethnic groups and those from diverse linguistic backgrounds.
The EYFS classroom is organised to allow children to explore and learn securely and safely. There are areas where the children can be active, be quiet and rest. The classroom is set up in learning areas, where children are able to find and locate equipment and resources independently.
The EYFS class has its own enclosed outdoor area. This has a positive effect on the children’s development. Being outdoors offers opportunities for doing things in different ways and on different scales than when indoors. For example, it offers the children to explore, use their senses and be physically active and exuberant. We plan activities and resources for the children to access outdoors so that it helps the children to develop in all seven areas of learning.
