Welcome to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) 

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The EYFS is how the Government and early years’ professionals describe the time in your child’s life between birth and age 5 (end of their first year in school -either called F2 or Reception) 

 
Here at Highfield Farm Primary School, our curriculum incorporates everything we want the children to experience, learn and be able to do. It meets all the requirements of the educational programmes in the statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and has the flexibility to allow us to respond quickly to children’s new interests and/or needs. The intent for our children is for them to enter the next stage of their education ready to tackle new challenges with confidence and a positive mindset. 

 

Within this EYFS Statutory Framework (2026) there are four guiding principles which shape our practice. 
 
These are: 

1. Every child is a unique child, who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident, and self-assured. 

2. Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships. 

3. Children learn and develop well in enabling environments with teaching and support from adults, who respond to their individual interests and needs and help them to build their learning over time. Children benefit from a strong partnership between practitioners and parents and/or carers. 

4. Importance of learning development - Children develop and learn at different rates. 
 
The framework covers the education and care of all children in early years provision, including children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). 
 
Our curriculum encompasses seven areas of learning and development. All areas of learning and development are important and interconnected. Three areas are particularly important for building a foundation for igniting children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, forming relationships, and thriving. 

These are called the prime areas: 

• communication and language 
• physical development 
• personal, social, and emotional development. 
 
Four areas help children to strengthen and apply the prime areas. These are called the specific areas: 

• literacy 
• mathematics 
• understanding the world 
• expressive arts and design 
 

Throughout their time in our school and during their Reception Year, our children partake in an ambitious curriculum which is designed in a sequential way to ensure progress towards the end of reception goals. These goals are defined as Early Learning Goals (ELGs). 

This year in our class we have some year 1 children so our curriculum has been slightly extended and developed with elements from the year 1 curriculum included to also  further support learning and development at a slightly higher level, this is in reach of all the children in our class as high expectations and achievements are expected and supported for ALL children in our school. 

More information and details of learning in each area can be found in the parent curriculum handout which will be send out to parents each half term via dojo. 

 

 

Class information. 

• Our PE days are on a Tuesday and Wednesday. Your child can attend school on these days dressed in appropriate PE kit.  

• ​Please make sure that your child brings a water bottle to school every day.  

• ​We will provide healthy snacks for your child on a daily basis. This will be a variety of fruit and vegetables.  Your child can also bring a healthy snack from home if they wish to.   

• ​If your child has prescribed medication such as an asthma pump, they must have it on the school site and we must have this recorded on our medical needs form. This can be done at the school office.  

• ​Please make sure that all of  your child's belongings are all labelled up. This will help prevent items getting lost. 

  

Together we  will ...be kind, show respect and keep trying