Charvil Piggott Primary School's Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) focuses on developing happy, confident, and skillful communicators who are curious about the world, providing them with a secure foundation for future learning.

We ensure learning is meaningful by providing children with hands-on, holistic experiences that develop their knowledge and skills.

Our Early Years provision follows four guiding principles:

• Every child is unique, constantly learning and capable of being confident and self-assured.
   
• Children learn through positive relationships.
   
• Children learn and develop well in enabling environments which are responsive to their needs and where there is a strong partnership between school and parents / carers.
   
• Children develop and learn in different ways.

Following our whole-school curriculum aims, we deliver a personalised, flexible curriculum that engages and motivates our children, covering all the 7 Areas of Learning and supporting the children’s learning characteristics.  These areas are inter-connected and crucial for igniting curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, as well as for building the capacity to learn, form relationships and thrive. The areas are:

1. Communication and language
    
2. Physical development
    
3. Personal, social and emotional development
    
4. Literacy
    
5. Mathematics
    
6. Understanding the world
    
7. Expressive arts and design.
    

Each area of learning and development is implemented through the key characteristics of effective learning:

• Engaging with what is around them
   
• Being motivated and involved
   
• Developing their own ideas and making links in their learning

All children access a broad, balanced, well-resourced curriculum, which offers enjoyment and success through active learning. Click on the link below to see our curriculum map. 

EYFS Curriculum at Charvil Piggott Primary School

Reading and Phonics 

In our EYFS, we teach reading using synthetic phonics, following the Rocket Phonics program; this is then applied throughout the rest of the school to consolidate what has been learnt. Within daily phonic sessions, children have the opportunity to revisit previous learning and practise and apply new skills in structured but engaging ways.

Reading is taught through regular book sharing, modelling fluency and expression and picking out vocabulary. There is a rich set of books available for the children to choose to read. Adults regularly read with children, targeting precise areas for development. 

Maths

At Charvil Piggott, we follow the White Rose scheme for Maths. It is aimed at one thing: helping every child to understand, enjoy and succeed in maths. We do this by developing an understanding. By truly understanding each concept and by mastering learning one step at a time, everyone can succeed through practical, greater depth activities, laying a solid foundation in this subject.