Specialist early years teaching
Little Amesbury
Little Amesbury follows the curriculum as outlined in the 2021 statutory framework for EYFS education. However, our teaching reaches far beyond this curriculum and our building and grounds. The children are taught by specialist teachers around the Amesbury campus, enabling children to become confident with different adults and classrooms.
Children get weekly specialist teaching in dance, tennis, French, forest school and music. Our smallest children also learn Makaton.
We encourage children to find their passion developing confidence, skills, interests and teamwork. Our Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum is carefully structured so the children are given the opportunity to engage in activities planned by adults and those initiated by themselves. They independently access both indoor and outdoor classrooms. The teaching team plans, observes, instructs and responds to the children, informed by the knowledge of how children learn. We offer planned, purposeful, exciting activities with adults working closely with the children and parents at home. Creative continuous provision is set up around the classrooms to engage children in the learning process and encourage them to be independent learners.
The curriculum is taught with the main aim of achieving the early learning goals in the three prime areas:
- Personal, social and emotional development.
- Physical development.
- Communication and language.
and four specific areas:
- Literacy.
- Mathematics.
- Understanding the world.
- Expressive art and design.
The school ensures that the key outcomes of ‘Development Matters’ are considered when planning and delivering the EYFS curriculum:
- The best for every child.
- High-quality care.
- The curriculum: what we want the children to learn.
- Pedagogy: helping children to learn.
- Assessment: checking what children have learned.
- Self-regulation and executive function.
- Partnership with parents.
