EYFS

Our Foundation Stage provision offers our children the necessary balance of ‘teacher-led’ and ‘pupil-initiated’ learning. We have created a caring, supportive and stimulating environment which has indoor and outdoor learning areas for the children to explore, discover, play and reflect. We want our children to be confident in expressing their ideas, happy to make independent choices and keen to explore the world around them.

Curriculum

At Broughton we offer the children a knowledge & skills rich curriculum which is brought to life through exciting and engaging activities. Our curriculum is carefully tailored to match our pupils interests, background and needs. We devote time throughout the year to learning more about the wonderful place they live and discovering the amazing things in our village and surrounding rural setting. We also build in lots of learning opportunities to allow our pupils to experience other cultures beyond the local area – taking part in celebrations from around the world & finding out about how other people live.

Our curriculum topics are listed below but we will also adapt and change our curriculum to meet the interests of our pupils. The topics are taught at different levels according to the needs of the pupils & some topics are taught solely to Nursery or Reception children.

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Magnificent Me!

Autumn Woodland

Traditional Tales

Celebrations from around the World

Super Heroes

Winter Wonderland & Spring

Traditional Tales

Celebrations from around the World

Journeys

Summer - Our Wonderful World

Traditional Tales

Celebrations from around the World

Assessment

We continuously assess the children in our care to find out the stage of their learning & development, and to plan how to guide them through the next steps in their progress. There are seven areas of learning and development in the early years curriculum. The first three prime areas are important for building a child's curiosity and enthusiasm for learning and forming relationships, these areas are:

-Communication & Language

-Physical Development

-Personal, Social & Emotional Development

We also have four specific areas which are:

-Literacy

-Mathematics

-Understanding of the World

-Expressive Arts & Design

All of these areas have specific early learning stages which build towards the final early learning goals which children should reach in all of the seven areas at the end of Reception. We assess our children when they come into our care and then at the end of every half term we measure their progress towards the early learning goals.

Nursery	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Reception	Autumn	Spring	Summer

(insert Nursery ELGs Aut/ Spr/ Sum

Reception ELGs Aut/ Spr/ Sum)

Positive Relationships & Partnership with Parents

-Communication with Parents on DoJo & Tapestry

-Termly Newsletters

-Parent Events (induction/ phonics/ events/ etc)

In our Reception class we enjoy some of the following activities:

Year 6 Buddies

We encourage the children to be caring and nurturing towards each other in our school and the ‘Buddy Scheme’ pairs Reception and Year 6 children together. The children meet up on a weekly basis to share some ‘Buddy Time’ and we enjoy a range of activities: paired reading, art activities, nature trails and games. Our Reception children form very positive bonds with their buddies and they often spend time outside during breaks together!

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Weekly Cookery Sessions

Our Reception children take part in a weekly cookery session to help develop their fine motor skills (chopping, cutting, mixing, rolling, etc.) as well as helping children to understand where food comes from and encourage an understanding of healthy eating. It’s wonderful to see our Reception children trying out lots of new flavours with even the fussiest of eaters giving new tastes a try. Some of the recipes we have made so far this year are gingerbread men, fruit kebabs, roast vegetables with basil dip, cheese pastry pinwheels, vegetable cous cous and shortbread. The children really enjoy their cookery sessions and love trying the results even more!

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Forest School

We are very fortunate to offer our Reception children a weekly Forest School session with a fully trained guide. The children enjoy a full afternoon each week taking part in the sessions. It is a fantastic opportunity for the children to take part in valuable outdoor learning where the children develop their confidence, self-esteem and team building skills. Children often make crafts sourced from the forest setting and develop a deep connection with nature and the changing seasons.