Shooters Grove Primary School
Early Years Foundation Stage
Please click here to access the policy for EYFS.
Here at Shooters Grove Primary School our EYFS consists of a 78 place Nursery and a 60 place Reception unit.
Our Nursery and Reception are both in separate purpose built units with access to a large outdoor environment.
As with all EYFS providers we follow the early years foundation stage curriculum. The EYFS areas are:
- communication and language
- physical development
- personal, social and emotional development
- literacy
- mathematics
- understanding the world
- expressive arts and design
At Shooters Grove we strive to provide our children with exciting learning opportunities and experiences within a broad and balanced curriculum. This prepares our children to become enthusiastic , resilient and confident learners. We are passionate about providing an environment that is inclusive and nurturing helping our children to develop necessary skills to become self-motivated, inquisitive with a love of learning.
Our curriculum is designed around the needs of our children and community whilst providing progression through Nursery and Reception with a strong focus on outdoor, hands on learning. We aim to build on children's prior knowledge and through continuous provision, focus activities and a rich and varied environment support children to develop skills and gain knowledge.
We feel we provide all children at Shooters Grove with a positive start to school life. We are proud of the confident, enthusiastic, responsible children that move into Key Stage One ready to begin the next part of their school journey.