Overview of the EYFS Framework

We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework, providing an ambitious curriculum driven by the children's interests and carefully sequenced to help children to build their learning over time. We provide a well-planned learning environment informed by how young children learn, what they like and what they need. Your child will be learning skills, acquiring new knowledge and demonstrating their understanding through 7 areas of learning and development:

• Personal, social and emotional development
• Physical development
• Communication & language
• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the world
• Expressive arts & design

Children in our nursery get an excellent introduction to life at school, helping to prepare them for the transition to Reception.

Early Reading and Maths

At Malden Parochial nursery, children will get an early introduction to reading and maths. We help children to develop a love of reading and storytelling through: 

• Daily phonics lesson and phonics challenges
• Daily story time sessions in which we encourage the children to answer questions about the text
• Acting out the stories we have read and making up our own stories and sharing them with the class
• Singing nursery rhymes, reading rhyming books and playing rhyming games
• Playing games such as I spy, hangman, Pictionary, word search, scrabble, ladybirds, cheeky monkeys and dragon race
• Vibrant book corner full of good quality books and manipulatives to aid mathematical understanding
• Story books to share with parents at home

We follow the Little Wandle Phonics programme, helping children to develop an early grasp of letters and sounds. We also work with children on number and letter recognition and help them prepare to write by developing their pencil control and fine motor skills through cutting and drawing activities.