Kingsway Early Years Curriculum
Our nursery curriculum is thoughtfully designed to provide young children with a meaningful and enriching learning experience. Rooted in play-based and child-centred approaches, it encourages curiosity, creativity, and exploration while supporting each individual’s child’s social, emotional, cognitive and physical development. Through a balance of structured activities and free play, children are introduced to foundational skills, helping them to develop confidence, independence, and a life-long love of learning in a safe and nurturing environment.
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework (2025) exists to support all professionals working in the early years to help your child thrive. Our curriculum has ambition, high expectation that all of our children will be successful through a well-thought out curriculum which prepare the children for their transition to Primary School.
The EYFS is divided into seven key areas of learning.
There are three primary areas and four specific areas.
The three primary areas of learning are:
- Personal, social and emotional development
- Physical development
- Communication and language
The four specific areas of learning are:
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the world
- Expressive arts and design
As well as the areas of learning, practitioners will look for the Characteristics of Effective Learning (CoEL) in children’s play. The characteristics focus on the way in which children learn rather than what they will learn. It reflects learning styles and attitudes to learning – all being fundamental learning behaviours that children will experience through their early years education.
The Characteristics of Effective Learning are:
- Playing and Exploring – Children naturally play and explore to satisfy their innate curiosity. They manipulate the environment, test it, and draw their own conclusions without any hidden agenda.
- Active Learning – Learning is effective when it is self-motivated. Then the attention and concentration on the experience and activity is at its peak level.
- Creating and Thinking Critically – Children make sense of the world when they can explore it freely, and this is when they use their existing knowledge and understanding to experiment creatively.
Practitioners work together to plan high-quality learning experiences and opportunities for all children across the seven areas of learning using Development Matters (Sept 2023) as guidance. Kingsway Early Years provides a stimulating learning environment to allow each child to learn and develop against their chosen interest or play opportunity. Young children have a natural curiosity to explore and find out about the world around them. As a setting, we offer an environment that enables child-initiated play whilst being mindful of key milestone goals. In order to capture moments of engagement and concise observations the adults scaffold learning and model high quality talk.
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