Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Statutory Framework

The EYFS framework:

• sets the standards that all early years providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well

• ensures children are kept healthy and safe

• ensures children have the knowledge and skills they need to start school

It also includes early years qualification requirements and standards 

For further information, take a look at the DfE's EYFS Statutory Guidance:

We offer the full curriculum as set out by the Department for Education and Employment. This covers personal and social development, language and literacy, mathematics, knowledge and understanding of the world, physical development and creative development.

Play helps young children to learn and develop through doing and talking, which research has shown to be the means by which young children learn to think. Our setting uses the Development Matters in the Early Years Foundation Stage guidance to plan and provide a range of play activities, which help children to make progress in each of the areas of learning and development. In some of these activities, children decide how they will use the activity and, in others, an adult takes the lead in helping the children to take part in the activity. In all activities, information from 'Development Matters' the Early Years Foundation Stage has been used to decide what equipment to provide and how to provide it.

We understand that all children engage with other people and their environment through the characteristics of effective learning that are described in the Development Matters the Early Years Foundation Stage guidance as:

▪ playing and exploring - engagement;

▪ active learning - motivation; and

▪ creating and thinking critically - thinking.

We aim to provide the characteristics of effective learning, by observing how a child is learning and being clear about what we can do, and provide, in order to support each child to remain an effective and motivated learner.