Early Years Foundation Stage

Building the foundations

Independence

Children have access to indoor and outdoor provision for most of the day. During this time, the children can choose where and how they want to play. When play has finished, we teach children to put everything back where it lives. We teach children to dress for outdoors, have their snack and drink when they need it, use the toilet and brush their teeth.

Resilience

We teach children all about the zones of regulation to teach them how to manage their feelings and behaviour. Every class has a ‘calm corner’ where they can sit and reflect on their feelings with or without an adult. The calm corner has a zones of regulation display and some regulation toys such as stress balls and teddies.

Children are encouraged to transport, climb, run, assess and manage their own risks. We believe that risky play has an important role to play in building children’s confidence, self-esteem and resilience.

Motivation

The children work hard to achieve what they set out to do and are rewarded by the final product. We reward children by giving them lots of encouragement, recognition for their efforts and sharing their achievements with them regularly.

Enabling environments

We scaffold and support all children’s individual needs by providing resources and/ or extra time to achieve their unique goals. Adults are constantly looking out for opportunities to challenge and extended children’s learning. We do this through questioning and making suggestions.