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Early Years Foundation Stage
Prime Areas -
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Specific Areas -
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts and Design
The Early Years Foundation Stage (E.Y.F.S) sets standards of learning, development and care of children from birth to five years old.
Children are developing all the time and their learning reflects this. The E.Y.F.S is split in to 7 areas of learning
In addition the E.Y.F.S. refers to the different ways that the children learn as the
Characteristics of Effective Learning:
Playing and Exploring
Active Learning
Creating and Thinking Critically
Together with the Prime and Specific Areas these comprise the knowledge, skills and experience that are developmentally appropriate for the children from birth to five years. Underpinning all areas are the E.Y.F.S principles
Healthy Eating
At Jumping Beans Nursery, we regard snack and meal times as an important part of our day. Eating represents a social time for children and adults, and helps children to learn about healthy eating. At snack times we aim to provide nutritious food, which meets the children's individual dietary needs.
We ask our parents to provide a piece of fruit or vegetable.
We supply a choice of milk and water to drink throughout the day, the children will have a carbohydrate (such as bread sticks or crackers) to accompany their fruit.
We ask parents to supply a health packed lunch.
During each term we will participate in healthy eating activities.
Physical Development
Daily physical activity supports children’s gross and fine motor skills, mental health, wellbeing and self-regulation. This helps children to be able to control their feelings, emotions and actions better.
Where Jumping Beans is situated it enables us to explore different types of physical activities, running on the field, climbing trees, using bikes and generally exploring the outside environment.
