Important messages
Our weekly PE lesson is every Friday. Please remember to come in your PE uniform. As we do 15 minutes of daily PE children must wear plain black trainers every day.
* Remember to bring your water bottles back to school every Monday
*Remember to bring your reading book inside your Book Bag every day
Class timetable

EYFS Stoneyholme Curriculum

| Stoneyholme EYFS Curricular Goals | ||
| Our goal is to support children in becoming confident, independent and active learners who leave the EYFS ready for their next stage in learning. We want them to become safe and respectful members of their own and the wider community. | ||
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Communication and Language *Someone who is a confident and articulate speaker gaining an extensive functional vocabulary and able to speak clearly in full sentences. *Someone who uses talk to further their understanding and explain their thinking. *Someone who can listen attentively, understand and respond appropriately. *Someone who can ask and answer questions and hold conversations with others. |
Physical Development *Someone who can move safely, negotiating objects and others, using a range of movements. *Someone who has good core strength, stability, balance and coordination. *Someone who moves with energy showing proficiency in the Lancashire 5 fundamental movement skills *Someone who can use equipment safely and with control including scissors, paintbrushes and cutlery. *Someone who demonstrates the body strength and movements needed for good writing skills. Who can hold mark-making tools with a mature grip and use them to form clear letters. |
Personal, Social and Emotional Development *Someone who has an understanding of what it means to be a global citizen with an awareness of belonging to a community and the responsibilities involved. *Someone who knows how to keep themselves safe in the classroom, at home and in the community. *Someone who shows the skills of being an active learner, who can concentrate, persevere and be resilient. *Someone who knows the difference between right and wrong and behaves accordingly. *Someone who shows confidence, curiosity and the motivation to try new activities and experiences *Someone who expresses, talks about and responds to different feelings, showing empathy and understanding how others are feeling and why. *Someone who is aspirational setting their own goals and thinking about the steps needed to achieve them. *Someone who can manage their own personal hygiene, maintain good oral hygiene and understand the importance of good health and ways to achieve this. *Someone who builds good relationships with familiar adults and peers, who can work and play cooperatively taking turns and share. |
| Literacy | Mathematics | Understanding the World | Expressive Arts and Design |
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*Someone who loves reading. *Someone who enjoys joining in with familiar stories, recalling and retelling stories and making appropriate suggestions/predictions about them. *Someone who understands how stories work, identifying characters, settings, problems and resolutions and answering questions about what has been read. *Someone who can adapt and invent stories based on familiar ones and use new vocabulary encountered through reading. *Someone who can use their phonics to decode simple words (including phase 3 phonemes) and sentences and read them with fluency. *Someone who can use their phonics to write simple words (including phase 3) and sentences containing spaces between words, full stops and capital letters that can be read by others. *Someone who can read and write the phase 2 and some phase 3 common exception (tricky) words individually and when in sentences. *Someone who can hold a pencil in a comfortable, mature grip and form most letters correctly. |
*Someone who has a deep understanding of numbers to 10, who can count accurately, sequence numbers, subitise and understand the composition of different numbers. *Someone who knows one more and one less from a given number and uses the vocabulary ‘part-part-whole’ when calculating. *Someone with accurate recall of doubles, halves and number bonds to 5 and 10 including related subtraction facts. *Someone who can count verbally beyond 20 identifying number patterns such as counting in 2’s, 10’s, odd and even numbers. *Someone who is a problem solver. *Someone who understand and uses the language of measures to compare and sequence objects and pictures (length, height, width, weight, capacity and time) *Someone who recognises and names 2D and 3D shapes, manipulate them and talks about their properties. *Someone with an awareness of money, identifying coins and using them to pay and receive change. |
*Someone with an understanding of the world around them, the people and communities around them and the importance of their actions on their communities and the wider world. *Someone who can identify a variety of natural features, plants and animals, show respect, care for them, observe and record them. *Someone who understands and respects the similarities and differences between different places, cultures and religions *Someone who explores and experiments with processes and changes that happen in the natural world. *Someone who knows some significant people from the past and the similarities and differences between past and present objects. *Someone who can read and create simple maps of journeys and places. |
*Someone who uses their imagination and creativity to explore a variety of media and materials. *Someone who knows how to look closely, create realistic representations adding detail and colour. *Someone who explores tools, materials and techniques to create (such as mix colours, fasten and assemble) *Someone who engages with the arts learning about artists and cultures recreating and exploring the effects used. *Someone who can explain their creations and the processes used to make it. *Someone who uses their imagination and creativity to develop storylines in their play, use props to pretend and work collaboratively to share ideas. *Someone who has a bank of favourite nursery rhymes and songs, uses their body or instruments to keep the beat and enjoys performing songs, rhymes and stories to others. |
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Rights Respecting Agenda *Someone who understands their rights and the rights of all children, respecting their rights and the responsibilities that come with this. *Someone who knows that it is the job of the duty bearers to ensure all children access their rights and the ways duty bearers can do this. |
ICT *Someone who understands how to keep themselves safe when online and the importance of passwords and their privacy. *Someone who technologically literate and is kept up to date with and taught through the latest developments in technology. *Someone who is able to access their learning independently through the school website. *Someone who can record objects and events by taking photographs and videos. *Someone who can interact with age appropriate apps and code using programmable toys. * Someone who has experienced green screen technology. |
Enriching experiences *Someone who has the opportunity to visit places and meet people from outside their community. *Someone who can ride a balance bike. *Someone who can create clay tiles and fire in the kiln. *Someone who experiences yoga, mindfulness and ways to keep calm *Someone who predicts, explores and finds out about processes from the natural world - Crest award *Someone who can plan, design, create and adapt - STEMterprise |
Area of Learning and Development - Communication and Language
| Education Programme for Communication and Language | |
| The development of children’s spoken language underpins all seven areas of learning and development. Children’s back-and-forth interactions from an early age form the foundations for language and cognitive development. The number and quality of the conversations they have with adults and peers throughout the day in a language-rich environment is crucial. By commenting on what children are interested in or doing, and echoing back what they say with new vocabulary added, practitioners will build children's language effectively. Reading frequently to children, and engaging them actively in stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems, and then providing them with extensive opportunities to use and embed new words in a range of contexts, will give children the opportunity to thrive. Through conversation, story-telling and role play, where children share their ideas with support and modelling from their teacher, and sensitive questioning that invites them to elaborate, children become comfortable using a rich range of vocabulary and language structures. | |
| Listening Attention and Understanding - ELG | Speaking - ELG |
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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| Key Learning Linked to Communication and Language | |
| Listening Attention and Understanding | Speaking |
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Area of Learning and Development - Physical Development
| Educational Programme for Physical Development | |
| Physical activity is vital in children’s all-round development, enabling them to pursue happy, healthy and active lives. Gross and fine motor experiences develop incrementally throughout early childhood, starting with sensory explorations and the development of a child’s strength, co-ordination and positional awareness through tummy time, crawling and play movement with both objects and adults. By creating games and providing opportunities for play both indoors and outdoors, adults can support children to develop their core strength, stability, balance, spatial awareness, co-ordination and agility. Gross motor skills provide the foundation for developing healthy bodies and social and emotional well-being. Fine motor control and precision helps with hand-eye co- ordination which is later linked to early literacy. Repeated and varied opportunities to explore and play with small world activities, puzzles, arts and crafts and the practice of using small tools, with feedback and support from adults, allow children to develop proficiency, control and confidence. | |
| Gross Motor Skills ELG | Fine Motor Skills ELG |
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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| Key Learning Linked to Physical Development | |
| Gross Motor Skills | Gross Motor Skills |
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Linked to Handwriting/Drawing
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Area of Learning and Development PSED
| Education Programme for PSED | ||
| Children’s personal, social and emotional development (PSED) is crucial for children to lead healthy and happy lives, and is fundamental to their cognitive development. Underpinning their personal development are the important attachments that shape their social world. Strong, warm and supportive relationships with adults enable children to learn how to understand their own feelings and those of others. Children should be supported to manage emotions, develop a positive sense of self, set themselves simple goals, have confidence in their own abilities, to persist and wait for what they want and direct attention as necessary. Through adult modelling and guidance, they will learn how to look after their bodies, including healthy eating, and manage personal needs independently. Through supported interaction with other children they learn how to make good friendships, co-operate and resolve conflicts peaceably. These attributes will provide a secure platform from which children can achieve at school and in later life. | ||
| Self-Regulation ELG | Managing Self ELG | Building Relationships ELG |
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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| Key Learning Linked to PSED - Self-Regulation | Key Learning Linked to PSED - Building Relationships |
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| Key Learning Linked to PSED - Managing Self | |
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Area of Learning and Development - Literacy
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Area of Learning and Development - Literacy |
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| It is crucial for children to develop a life-long love of reading. Reading consists of two dimensions: language comprehension and word reading. Language comprehension (necessary for both reading and writing) starts from birth. It only develops when adults talk with children about the world around them and the books (stories and non-fiction) they read with them, and enjoy rhymes, poems and songs together. Skilled word reading, taught later, involves both the speedy working out of the pronunciation of unfamiliar printed words (decoding) and the speedy recognition of familiar printed words. Writing involves transcription (spelling and handwriting) and composition (articulating ideas and structuring them in speech, before writing). | ||
| Comprehension ELG | Word Reading ELG | Writing ELG |
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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| Key Learning Linked to Reading | ||
| Comprehension | Phonics | Word Reading |
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GPC recognition (hear, say, read letters), oral blending, blending for reading
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HFW both decodable and common exception words (tricky)
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| Key Learning Linked to Writing | ||
| Emergent Writing | Composition | Transcription |
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Composition:
Vocabulary, grammar, punctuation
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Spelling: GPC recognition, Oral segmenting, segmenting for spelling
Handwriting: (also see Physical Development - Fine Motor Skills)
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Area of Learning and Development - Mathematics
| Educational Programme for Mathematics | |
| Developing a strong grounding in number is essential so that all children develop the necessary building blocks to excel mathematically. Children should be able to count confidently, develop a deep understanding of the numbers to 10, the relationships between them and the patterns within those numbers. By providing frequent and varied opportunities to build and apply this understanding - such as using manipulatives, including small pebbles and tens frames for organising counting - children will develop a secure base of knowledge and vocabulary from which mastery of mathematics is built. In addition, it is important that the curriculum includes rich opportunities for children to develop their spatial reasoning skills across all areas of mathematics including shape, space and measures. It is important that children develop positive attitudes and interests in mathematics, look for patterns and relationships, spot connections, ‘have a go’, talk to adults and peers about what they notice and not be afraid to make mistakes. | |
| Number ELG | Numerical Patterns ELG |
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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| Key Learning Linked to Number and Numerical Patterns | ||
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Rote Counting
Recognition
Counting Items
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Sense
Ordinal Numbers
Fractions
Graphics
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Calculating
Vocabulary
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Key Learning Linked to Space, Shape and Measure |
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Shape
Space
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Distance
Weight
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Volume/Capacity
Money
Time
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Area of Learning and Development Understanding the World
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Educational Programme for Understanding the World |
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Understanding the world involves guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community. The frequency and range of children’s personal experiences increases their knowledge and sense of the world around them - from visiting parks, libraries and museums to meeting important members of society such as police officers, nurses and firefighters. In addition, listening to a broad selection of stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems will foster their understanding of our culturally, socially, technologically and ecologically diverse world. As well as building important knowledge, this extends their familiarity with words that support understanding across domains. Enriching and widening children’s vocabulary will support later reading comprehension. |
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Past and Present ELG |
People Culture and Communities ELG |
The Natural World ELG |
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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| Key Learning Linked to People Culture and Communities | |
| Cultures and Beliefs | Geographical Development |
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| Key Learning Linked to Past and Present Past and Present - Historical Development | |
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| Key Learning Linked to The Natural World - Working Scientifically | |
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Area of Learning and Development - Expressive Arts and Design
| Educational Programme for EAD | |
| The development of children’s artistic and cultural awareness supports their imagination and creativity. It is important that children have regular opportunities to engage with the arts, enabling them to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials. The quality and variety of what children see, hear and participate in is crucial for developing their understanding, self-expression, vocabulary and ability to communicate through the arts. The frequency, repetition and depth of their experiences are fundamental to their progress in interpreting and appreciating what they hear, respond to and observe. | |
| Creating with Materials - ELG | Being Imaginative and Expressive - ELG |
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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Children at the expected level of development will:
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| Key Learning Linked to Creating with Materials | |
| Key Learning Linked to Art | Key Learning Linked to Designing and Making |
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| Key Learning linked to Being Imaginative and Expressive | |
| Key learning linked to Being Imaginative | Key learning linked to Music |
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Key Learning linked to the Stoneyholme Curriculum |
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| Key Learning linked to the Rights Respecting Agenda |
Key Learning linked to key concepts/British Values |
Key Learning linked to ICT |
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Can you be the same and different at the same time? Is it OK to be different? Community – What makes a community?, How do you know you belong to a community?, Who helps/supports our communities? How do we welcome people into our communities? Do we always have to be the same in our community? How do we help people to understand our communities? Equality – Does it matter if we are different? How can we help people feel like they belong? What can we do to make sure everyone succeeds? What to do if we have a worry, How different situations can make us feel, How do we help people understand us? Should you do the right thing even if others don’t? Citizenship – What are the right and wrong behaviours in our society? How can we be a good citizen? Who are the heroes in our society? Do you need a superpower to be a hero? Who are significant people from the past and present and what can we learn from them? Power – What is power? Who has power? Do people with power always do the right thing? Who does the world belong to? Trade – What does trade mean? How can we trade without money? What is the impact of environmental change on trade? How can we make sure that trade is fair? Is it OK to treat workers badly to get cheap items? Change – What are the problems with our environment? What is causing these problems? What can we do about these problems? How can we do our bit? Who should help to sort out these problems? |
World Wide Web – finding new information, being aware that not everything can be trusted, being safe Apps – interacting with age appropriate apps, using Seesaw as a platform for completing online activities and homework Recording – using different technology to record pictures, sounds and videos, using green screen technology to change backgrounds Coding – using apps and programmable toys Marking up – using paint tools and drawing packages to mark up/change pictures |
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STEMterprise – Developing the design and make process Crest Award – Developing working scientifically Kew Endeavour – Developing working scientifically Balance Bikes – Developing physical skills and health Daily PE – Developing good health |
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