EYFS

Our Early Years Lead is Mrs C Funnell

Moorside Primary is at the heart of the community it serves and the start of your child’s learning journey. Our school is a vibrant, welcoming and safe place to learn driven by high expectations. We strive as a team to inspire confidence, develop resilience, promote democracy and give children a voice to be heard, recognising only the best is good enough. We challenge children to believe in and reach beyond themselves so they leave proud of their achievements and are ready to make their next steps as confident and responsible citizens in an ever-changing society.

Everything we do in our Early Years centers around our core values and the curriculum as set out within the EYFS framework.

When parents choose to use Early Years services they want to know that provision will keep their children safe and help them to thrive.

The aims of the Early Years Foundation Stage at Moorside Primary School are:

To provide a broad and balanced curriculum which embraces the themes, principles and commitments of the Early Years Foundation Stage and the areas of learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage.

To provide a happy, secure, stimulating and challenging environment.

To provide opportunities for children to make choices which will facilitate independent learning, creative thinking and enable them to feel confident as learners.

To provide opportunities for children to develop their communication, linguistic, investigative and problem solving skills through interaction with adults and other children.

To promote children’s imagination in play through stimulating resources and activities within the inside and outside classrooms.

To develop a partnership with parents/carers based on a shared understanding of the learning needs of the children.

To provide quality first hand, play based learning experiences that are well planned and contain an appropriate balance between different types of play, permeating all aspects of the curriculum.

To provide a range and balance of child initiated, adult initiated and adult focused activities indoors and outdoors.

To provide a smooth transition between the Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 – Year 1.

At Moorside Primary Academy the aim is for every child to get the best possible start on life. We run as an early years unit and as such progression is planned to ensure that all children have age appropriate experiences. For some group times reception children are taught separate to nursery children using our ‘focus zone’. Our two-year-old children do access our main setting however they have a small safe space within this area to allow for bespoke activities specific to their needs.

One of our core aims are developing your child’s prime areas of learning:

Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED)
Physical Development
Communication and Language

These have been carefully mapped out through a progression documents across all prime areas.

Please see our long term plans below.