The intent of our Early Years Curriculum is to:

• Develop happy, confident and resilient learners that feel valued and secure.
• Encourage a life long love of learning.
• Educate children in the knowledge, skills and understanding to be effective, inquisitive, active learners.
• Give children the opportunities to spark their curiosity and their critical thinking skills.
• Create a play-based active curriculum that builds on children's previous learning and understanding.
• Develop secure relationships with families and work in partnership with parents and carers.
• Prepare children to achieve the Early Learning Goals
• Equip our children with the knowledge and skills needed for the next stage of their learning journey.

The implementation of our curriculum:

The intended impact of the Early Years Curriculum is that:

By the end of Reception, children demonstrate high levels of engagement in activities, developing their speaking and listening skills, enabling them to access more areas of the learning and communicate to both adults and children. Children develop skills across all areas of the curriculum including literacy, mathematics and physical development using these in different ways. Our children will develop a lifelong love for books, stories and reading.

Children develop their characteristics of learning and are able to apply their knowledge to a range of situations making links and explaining their ideas and understanding. Children are confident to take risks and discuss their successes and failures with adults drawing on their experiences to improve or adjust what they are doing.

We strive to ensure that all of our children make good or better progress during their time in Reception. Children who achieve the expected standard within the Early Learning Goals have the knowledge and skills needed to continue to maintain the good progress they have made in Key Stage 1 and beyond.