🌻 Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) 🌻

Our EYFS consists of a mixed year group of both Nursery and Reception; We also offer spaces for 30 hour provision in our Nursery. 

Eligibility is available for parents on the HMRC 30 hours childcare website: https://www.gov.uk/30-hours-free-childcare

At Sacred Heart Primary, we ensure that the four guiding principles of the EYFS are fully embedded. These are:

A unique child

  • Every child is unique.  They are consistently learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.

Positive relationships

  • Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships.

Enabling environments

  • Children learn and develop well in environments where their experiences respond to their individual needs and there is a strong partnership between practitioners and yourself as a parent and/or carer.

Children learn and develop in different ways and at different rates

  • The framework covers the education and care of your child within the early years setting, including children with additional needs.

At Sacred Heart Primary, the learning environments are carefully set up so they are enabling, challenging and stimulating. Through purposeful play, high-quality adult interactions, enhancements and adult-led activities, all children, regardless of background, barrier or need succeed in our setting.

To enhance our child-led approach, we have highly skilled, enthusiastic staff who see every moment as a learning opportunity and ensure that all our children are given an ambitious curriculum across all seven areas of learning.

Prime Areas:

  • Communication and language
  • Physical Development
  • Personal, social and emotional development

Specific Areas:

  • Literacy
  • Mathematics
  • Understanding the World
  • Expressive Art and Design

At Sacred Heart Primary we recognise that the environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development. We provide a stimulating and safe environment both indoors and outdoors. Children are encouraged to find and locate equipment and resources independently.

Research has shown that outdoor learning supports and extends young people’s problem solving abilities; their ideas in response to new challenges and their resilience to persevere and persist at new tasks. It can develop a love of nature and in turn promote healthier lifestyles through fresh air and physical activity. Children and young people develop holistically through provision of achievable tasks and support to take managed risks in an outdoor setting, which builds upon confidence and self-esteem.