Early Year Foundation Stage – Grand Mount International School

We have chosen this framework because it is well-researched, detailed, often updated and abundantly-resourced, and many of the world’s best teachers know it well.

WHAT IS THE EYFS?

Every child deserves the best possible start in life and the support that enables them to fulfill their potential. Children develop quickly in the early years and a child’s experiences between birth and age five have a major impact on their future life chances. A secure, safe and happy childhood is important in it’s own right. Good parenting and high quality early learning together provide the foundation children need to make the most of their abilities and talents as they grow up.

The Early Years Foundation Stage

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets the standards that all early years’ providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. It promotes teaching and learning to ensure children’s ‘school readiness’ and gives children the broad range of knowledge and skills that provide the right foundation for good future progress through school and life.

The Seven Areas of Learning and Development

There are seven areas of learning and development that must shape educational programmes in early year’s settings. All areas of learning and development are important and inter-connected.

Three areas are particularly crucial for igniting children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, and for building their capacity to learn, form relationships and thrive.

1. Communication and Language development

Communication and Language development involves giving children opportunities to experience a rich language environment; to develop their confidence and skills in expressing themselves; and to speak and listen in a range of situations.

2. Physical Development

Physical Development involves providing opportunities for young children to be active and interactive; and to develop their co-ordination, control, and movement. Children must also be helped to understand the importance of physical activity, and to make healthy choices in relation to food.

3. Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Personal, Social and Emotional Development involves helping children to develop a positive sense of themselves, and others; to form positive relationships and develop respect for others; to develop social skills and learn how to manage their feelings; to understand appropriate behaviour in groups; and to have confidence in their own abilities.

4. Literacy

Literacy involves encouraging children to link sounds and letters and to begin to read and write. Children must be given access to a wide range of reading materials including books, poems, and other written materials to ignite their interest.

5. Mathematics

Mathematics involves providing children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, calculating simple addition and subtraction problems; and to describe shapes, spaces, and measures.

6. Understanding

Understanding The World involves guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community through opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology and the environment.

7. Expressive Arts and Design

Expressive Arts and Design involves enabling children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials, as well as providing opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play, and design and technology.

Why are the early years so important?

All the evidence suggests that investment in the education of the very young makes the biggest difference to their lives overall. Children who attend a quality early learning center show marked advances socially and in literacy and numeracy that really put them ahead.

Our aim is to provide a safe, caring and friendly start in life that builds this knowledge, skills, understanding and confidence in ways that are always entertaining and also fun, ensuring the fastest gains and helping to form the best habits and attitudes towards learning that can last forever.

Our programme is based on the world-renowned UK’s Early Years Foundation Stage which offers a wealth of well-developed, tried and tested activities, resources, assessments and teacher education material. All progress is carefully and accurately charted against these internationally recognized and applied standards, so you will know straightaway how well your child is doing when compared to others, both in Cambodia and abroad.

For each goal, there are three separate achievement levels within each Development Matters age band or Step:

Expected: your child is working at the level expected for his/her age
Emerging: your child is working below the expected level
Exceeding: your child is working above the expected level

Your Report Card (shown below) will also detail a written summary explaining special achievement and areas for development.

Why choose us?

We perceive that the utilization of innovation in primary school homerooms can be an area of worry for certain guardians. For that reason we plan to instruct our young students on the advantages of innovation and the manners in which it might affect their social and profound turn of events.

We present different age-suitable gadgets and projects to advance opportunities for growth, assist understudies with utilizing innovation actually, and to create as curious students and capable users.

From Grade 3 every student will be given their very own gadget to enhance growth opportunities and customize guidance; permitting understudies, under management, to associate, team up, and interface with the more extensive world.Students are urged to utilize these gadgets to ask, team up and make their own advanced learning portfolio and offer updates with their folks.