Early Years

In EYFS at Goddard Park Primary School, the curriculum is designed to recognise children’s prior learning and their experiences at home, provide first-hand learning experience, whilst allowing the children to build resilience, ambition and integrity in a language rich environment.

Every child is recognised as a unique individual, and we celebrate and welcome differences within our school community. The ability to learn is underpinned by the teaching of basic skills, knowledge, concepts and values fostering a love of reading. We provide enhancement opportunities to engage learning and believe that our first experiences of school should be happy and positive, enabling us to develop a lifelong love of learning. Throughout their time in EYFS, the children develop a sense of belonging to our community, ready to transition to year 1 the following academic year. 

Providing the opportunities that give the children the confidence and skills to make decisions and self-evaluate, make connections and become lifelong learners.

1. Communication and Language
2. Physical Development
3. Personal, Social and Emotional Development
4. Literacy (We use Read Write Inc. a systematic synthetic phonics programme to teach children sounds as building blocks on how to read and write.
5. Mathematics
6. Understanding The World
7. Expressive Arts and Design.