

The guidance divides children’s learning and development into 7 areas. The 3 prime areas work together, move through and support development in all other areas and 4 specific areas as set out below:
Personal, social and emotional development (prime area)
Communication and language development (prime area)
Physical development (prime area)
Mathematical development
Understanding the world
Literacy
Expressive arts and design
New Millside Pre-school provides a curriculum for the Early Years Foundation Stage of education. This curriculum guidance is set out in a document published by the Department for Education, and called the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage. New Millside provides a phased curriculum covering all seven areas of learning.
Our curriculum Planning Policy is available here and sets out the different areas of learning and phases - CURRICULUM PLANNING POLICY
We provide a phased curriculum covering all seven areas of learning, taking into account children’s different starting points and developmental needs. Our curriculum ensures learning is sequenced, learning areas are interconnected and that we have high expectations for all children.
We will plan activities that support the children to achieve developmental goals identified through regular observations and outlined within the curriculum. We will plan each week’s activities so that they are based on the sequence of learning and the children’s needs also ensuring that the children’s choices and voices are heard and embedded within the planning. We will measure each child’s development through regular observations and through assessment tools such as, but not restricted to, Birth to Five Matters and implement activities within the planning to support the child’s progress and next steps so that they can move through the curriculum goals.