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During your child’s
time at pre-school s/he will be working towards Early
Learning Goals (ELG) as set down by the DfES. Below,
the six areas of learning are condensed to give you
an idea of what the activities we do, the topics we
cover and the resources we use during our daily sessions,
aim to work towards.
MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENT
Activities will aim to encourage children to:
- Use mathematical language, such as circle, in
front of, bigger than and more to describe shape, position,
size and quantity
- Recognise and recreate patterns
- Be familiar with number rhymes, songs, stories,
counting games and activities
- Compare, sort, match, order, sequence and count
using everyday objects
- Recognise and use numbers to 10
- Be familiar with numbers larger than 10 from
their everyday lives
- Begin to use their developing mathematical understanding
to solve practical problems
- Understand and record numbers in the context
of practical activities
- Begin to show an awareness of number operations
such as addition and subtraction and begin to use the
language involved.
COMMUNICATION,
LANGUAGE AND LITERACY
Activities will aim to encourage children to:
- Listen attentively and talk about their experiences
in a small and large group
- Use a growing vocabulary with increasing fluency
to express thoughts and convey meaning to the listener
- Listen and respond to stories, songs, nursery
rhymes and poems
- Make up their own stories
- Participate in role play with confidence
- Enjoy books and handle them carefully, understanding
how they are organised
- Know that words and pictures carry meaning and
that in English print is read from left to right and
from top to bottom
- Begin to associate sounds with patterns in rhymes,
with syllables, and with words and letters
- Recognise letters of the alphabet by shape and
sound
- Use pictures, symbols, familiar words and letters
to communicate meaning in their writing
- Write their names with appropriate use of upper
and lower case letters
PERSONAL, SOCIAL
AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Activities will aim to encourage children to:
- Become confident, self-respecting and able to
establish effective relationships with other children
and adults
- Work independently and as part of a group
- Concentrate and persevere in their learning,
seeking help where needed
- Be eager to explore new learning and to develop
the ability to initiate ideas and solve simple practical
problems
- Be independent in selecting an activity and/or
resource
- Be independent in dressing and personal hygiene
- Be sensitive to the needs and feelings of others
- Show respect for people of other cultures and
beliefs
- Take turns and share fairly
- Express their feelings and behave in appropriate
ways
- Develop an understanding of what is right, what
is wrong, and why
- Develop care and concern for living things,
property and the environment
- Respond to culture and religious events
- To show a range of feelings in response to their
experience of the world
CREATIVE
DEVELOPMENT
Activities will aim to encourage children to:
- Explore sound, colour, texture, shape, form
and space in two and three dimensions
- Respond in a variety of ways to what they see,
hear, smell, touch and feel
- Develop an increasing ability to use their imagination,
to listen and observe when engaged in art, music, dance,
stories or imaginative play
- Use a widening range of materials, suitable
tools, instruments and other resources to express ideas
and communicate feelings
PHYSICAL
DEVELOPMENT
Activities will aim to encourage children to:
- Move confidently and imaginatively with increasing
control and co-ordination and an awareness of space
and others
- Use a range of small and large equipment and
balancing and climbing appraratus, with increasing skill
- Handle appropriate tools, objects, construction
and materials, safely and with increasing control
KNOWLEDGE AND
UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD
Activities will aim to encourage children to:
- Talk about where they live, their environment,
their families and past and present events in their
own lives
- Explore and recognise features of living things,
objects and events in the natural and made world
- Look closely at similarities, differences, patterns
and change in their world
- Develop an awareness of the purposes of some
features of the area in which they live
- Talk about their observations, sometimes recording
them and ask questions to gain information about why
things happen and how things work
- Explore and select materials and equipment appropriate
to a task
- Develop and use skills such as cutting, joining,
folding and building for a variety of purposes
- Use technology to support their learning
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