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Prime Areas of Learning

Communication and Language

Focuses on children’s speaking, attention and listening, understanding and communication skills.

During their time in my early years settings, children will:
  • Develop their listening and attention skills.
  • Practise how to ask and answer questions.
  • Explore stories, songs and rhymes.
  • Understand and use new vocabulary.
  • Learn ways to describe and retell events.
  • Participate in conversations.
 
 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Focuses on children’s health and wellbeing, resilience, social skills and understanding of their emotions.

During their time in my early years settings, children will:
  • Build relationships with others. 
  • Become more independent and self-confident.
  • Manage their personal hygiene.
  • Explore how to keep themselves safe and healthy.
  • Develop their own personalities and characteristics.
  • Learn about their emotions and how to manage them.
 

Physical Development

Focuses on children’s health and large and small movement skills, such as using tools and equipment and moving around a space.

During their time in my early years settings, children will:
  • Develop a comfortable pencil grip.
  • Explore several ways of moving, such as walking, running and jumping.
  • Hold and control small tools, such as scissors and pencils.
  • Develop independence with self-care activities, such as getting dressed and brushing teeth.
  • Play movement games, including throwing and catching activities.
  • Use large equipment, such as climbing frames, bikes, and scooters.
 
 

Specific Areas of Learning

Literacy

Literacy focuses on children’s reading, writing and phonics skills. It helps them to develop the skills they need to ensure they can understand future learning and make themselves understood by others.

During their time in my early years settings, children will:
  •  Explore mark making.
  • Talk about stories, songs, and rhymes.
  • Explore rhyming words and syllables.
  • Read books with an adult and independently.
  • Practise writing sounds, words, and sentences.
  • Link sounds to letters.
 
 

Mathematics

Mathematics focuses on children’s understanding of maths concepts, such as numbers, quantities, shapes, patterns, measures, and spatial awareness.

During their time in my early years setting, children will:
  • Explore numbers and counting.
  • Link numbers and quantities.
  • Talk about 2D and 3D shapes.
  • Describe routes and positions.
  • Compare size, length, weight, and capacity.
  • Talk about patterns.
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Understanding the world focuses on children’s understanding of the world around them and includes learning about people, places, and events.
 
During their time in my early years setting, children will:
  • Explore how things work.
  • Talk about life in the past.
  • Learn about the weather and seasons.
  • Explore local environments and talk about different places around the world.
  • Investigate natural materials and life cycles and learn about caring for the environment.
  • Learn about different beliefs, special places, and events.

Understanding the World

Expressive Arts and Design

Expressive Arts and Design focuses on children’s creative skills and their ability to express themselves through art, music, and movement.

During their time in my early years setting, children will:
  • Develop their drawing and model-making skills.
  • Take part in pretend play.
  • Explore colours and colour mixing.
  • Sing songs and rhymes and play musical instruments.
  • Explore a variety of different materials and techniques.
  • Express their thoughts and feelings, individually and in groups.
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