The Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage document, provided by
the Department for Children, Schools and Families defines six Early Learning
Goals which form the basis for the pre-school curriculum. Each early learning goal has a number of associated stepping stones,
with the pre-school sessions planned to meet one or more of these. Extracts from these goals, obtained from the above
document, are included below. Details on the pre-school activities are can be found here.
The six early learning goals are:
Personal, social and emotional development
- Continue to be interested, excited and motivated to learn.
- Be confident to try new activities, initiate ideas and speak in a familiar group.
- Maintain attention, concentrate and sit quietly when appropriate.
- Have a developing awareness of their own needs, views and feelings, and be sensitive to the needs,
views and feelings of others.
- Form good relationships with adults and peers.
- Works as part of a group or class, taking turns and sharing fairly, understanding that there needs to
be agreed values and codes of behaviour.
- Understand what is right and what is wrong and why.
- Dress and undress independently and manage their own personal hygiene.
- Select and use activities and resources independently.
Communication, language and literacy
- Interact with others, negotiating plans and activities and taking turns in conversation.
- Enjoy listening to and using spoken and written language and readily turn to it in their play and learning.
- Listen with enjoyment, and respond to stories, songs and other music.
- Extend their vocabulary, exploring the meanings of sounds of new words.
- Speak clearly and audibly with confidence and control and show awareness of the listener.
- Use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences.
- Link sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet.
Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy
- Say and use number names in order in familiar contexts.
- Count reliably up to ten everyday objects.
- Recognise numerals 1 to 9.
- Use language such as 'more' and 'less' to compare two numbers.
- Use language such as 'greater', 'smaller', 'heavier' or 'lighter' to compare quantities.
Knowledge and understanding of the World
- Investigate objects and materials using all of their senses as appropriate.
- Find out about, and identify, some features of living things, objects and events they observe.
- Look closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change.
- Ask questions about why things happen and how things work.
- Build and construct with a wide range of objects.
- Find out about their environment, and talk about those features they like and dislike.
Physical development
- Move with confidence, imagination and safety.
- Show awareness of space, of themselves and others.
- Recognise the importance of keeping healthy, and those things which contribute to this.
- Handle tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control.
Creative development
- Respond in a variety of ways to what they see, hear, smell, touch and feel.
- Express and communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings by using a widening range of materials,
suitable tools, imaginative and role-play.
- Explore colour, texture, shape, form and space in two or three dimensions.
- Recognise and explore how sounds can be changed, sing simple songs from memory, recognise repeated
sounds and sound patterns and match movements to music.
The Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage document can be obtained from www.everychildmatters.gov.uk
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