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Early Years

For children in their reception year we follow the Government’s 2021 Early Years Foundation Stage Framework and we use CUSP to support the delivery of the EYFS Curriculum. The children’s learning and development is taught through seven areas of learning.

Three Prime areas:

  • Communication and Language
  • Physical Development
  • Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Four Specific areas:

  • Literacy
  • Mathematics
  • Understanding the World
  • Expressive Arts and Design

The CUSP Early Foundations offer is presented in three parts:

1. Foundational knowledge: what pupils should know and be able to do throughout the EYFS and how this will support their development and prepare them for Key Stage 1
2. Opportunities and experiences: how this foundational knowledge can be learnt through play and through guided activities that will allow pupils to explore, experiment with and think hard about new and important concepts
3. Structured Story Time: core texts that will introduce key language, ideas and themes that pupils will need to access the foundational knowledge, built into a framework that uses all that we know about effective literacy instruction