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•Be Healthy

•Stay Safe

•Enjoy and Achieve

•Make a positive contribution and

•Achieve economic well-being

It aims to ensure a consistent approach to care, learning and development from birth to the end of the Foundation Stage

Helps practitioners plan care and learning that is right for each child at their stage of development.

THEME

PRINCIPLE

COMMITMENT COMMITMENT COMMITMENT COMMITMENT

A Unique Child

Every child is a competent learner from birth who can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.

1.1 Child Development

1.2 Inclusive Practice

1.3 Keeping Safe

1.4 Health and Well-being

Positive Relationships

Children learn to be strong and independent from a base of loving and secure relationships with parents and/or a key person.

2.1 Respecting each other

2.2 Parents as Partners

2.3 Supporting Learning

2.4 Key Person

Enabling Environments

The environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning.

3.1 Observation, assessment and Planning

3.2 Supporting Every Child

3.3 The Learning Environment

3.4 The Wider Context

Learning and development

Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates and all areas of Learning and Development are equally important and inter-connected.

4.1 Play and Exploration

4.2 Active Learning

4.3 Creativity and Critical Thinking

4.4 Areas of Learning and Development

•Must have effective systems to ensure individual needs of all children are met

•Promote equal opportunity

•Each child must be assigned a key person

•Must ensure there is a balance of adult led and freely chosen or child initiated activities through indoor and outdoor play

•Providers must undertake sensitive observational assessment in order to plan to meet young children’s needs

•Providers must plan and provide experiences which are appropriate to each child’s stage of development as they progress towards the early learning goals.

Birth to 11 months

8-20 months

16-26 months

22-36 months

30-50 months

40-60+ months

Not using a topic based approach

Avoiding product outcome activities

Child led display work

Outdoor Play

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Communication, Language and Literacy

Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

Physical development

Creative development

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Dispositions and Attitudes

Self confidence and self esteem

Making relationships

Behaviour and self control

Self care

Sense of community

Communication, Language and Literacy

Language for communication

Language for thinking

Linking sounds and letters

Reading

Writing

Handwriting

Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy

Numbers as labels for counting

Calculating

Shape space and measures

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

Exploration and investigation

Designing and making

ICT

Time

Place

Communities

Physical development

Movement and Space

Health and bodily awareness

Using equipment and materials

Creative development

Being creative – responding to experiences and communicating ideas

Exploring media and materials

Creating Music and Dance

Developing imagination and imaginative play