Small World Nursery

The Early Years Foundation Stage

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) was introduced in September 2008 and is a  framework for children aged 0-5yrs old that sets out minimum standards of care and learning for all nursery practice ensuring that all children’s welfare, learning and development needs are met. Its purpose is to ensure that children are provided with a rich learning experience tailored to their individual needs whilst being cared for in a safe and secure environment. These goals are grouped into six areas of learning:

We provide a wide range of opportunities and experiences at Small World Nursery that promote the 6 areas of the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage):

• Personal, social and emotional development
• Communication, language and literacy
• Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy
• Knowledge and understanding of the world
• Physical development
• Creative development

As a nursery, our practitioners continually observe, listen to and assess the children in our care. This enables us to record their learning and then to plan activities and provide resources that will extend each individual child’s learning and development.

We recognise that parents and carers are their child’s first teachers and seek to work in partnership with parents to gather as much information about the child as possible so that we can then use all of the information gained to plan for the individual children in a way that will extend their learning and development.