Early Years Foundation Stage
At St Basil's we believe that children deserve the best possible start to their learning journey in school. We are proud of our Early Years and during our recent Ofsted inspection, it was recognised that:
"Children are curious and enjoy learning and finding out new things. Staff make skilled use of highly stimulating indoor and outdoor learning areas, exciting resources and a purposeful early years curriculum, to develop children’s knowledge in subjects including early mathematics and reading.
Children learn rhyming songs, which helps them to remember the names and order of numbers. Children are also building their knowledge of the sounds of letters linked to the names of various animals and objects."
In the Early years, we cover seven areas of learning; three Prime and four Specific Areas.
These are:
Prime Areas:
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Specific Areas:
Literacy Development
Mathematical Development
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts and Design
At the end of reception your child will scored as Emerging, Expected or Exceeding against the Early Learning Goal for each area. The Early Learning Goals for Mathematics and Literacy Development are:
Numbers
Children count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.
Shape, shape and measure
Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems. They recognise, create and describe patterns. They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.
Reading
Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words. They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.
Writing
Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.