Aims and objectives of the

Early Years Syllabus at BoM.

 

One of the main aims is to offer opportunities for all children to succeed in an atmosphere of care and feeling valued. Within this framework, children in Early Years should be able to build on what they already know, extend their skills and develop their confidence.

With the added international element present in the school the children are also helped to become aware of, explore and question issues of differences in ethnicity,  language,  religion and culture.

 'My teacher' by Maryam Ahmed, 4yrs

Organisation of the Early Years Syllabus.

1. Personal, Social and Emotional Development.

The aims and purposes of this Learning Area are to help children learn how to behave and take responsibility for their actions and how to relate to others productively as well as have experiences which help them to grow in confidence.

This term children will learn to:

 

·        Show an interest in classroom activities through observation or participation.

·        Dress, undress and manage own personal hygiene with adult support.

·        Display high levels of involvement in self-chosen activities.

·        Play alongside others.

·        Build relationships through gesture and talk.

·        Take turns and share with adult support.

·        Separate from main carer with support.

·        Communicate freely about home and community.

·        Express needs and feelings in appropriate ways.

 

2. Communication, Language and Literacy.

The effective development of communication and language skills lie at the heart of young children's learning, enabling them to make sense of all other areas of their experience and leading to understanding.

This term children will learn to:

 

·        Listen and respond.

·        Initiate communication with others, displaying greater confidence in more formal contexts.

·        Talk activities through, reflecting on and modifying actions.

·        Join in with rhyming and rhythmic activities.

·        Show an awareness of rhyme and alliteration. Link some sounds to letters.

·        Experiment with mark making, sometimes ascribing meaning to the marks.

·        Use some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning.

·        Represent some sounds correctly in writing or emergent writing.

·        Develop an interest in books.

·        Recognize that print conveys meaning.

·        Recognize a few familiar words.

 

3. Mathematical Development.

The aims and purposes of this Learning Area in Early Years, is to provide a wide range of activities which will enable young children to use and experiment with numbers and engage in counting, sorting, pattern making and matching, comparing and ordering, and to look at shapes and measures.

This term children will learn to:

 

·        Say some number names in familiar contexts, such as number rhymes.

·        Count reliably up to 3 everyday objects.

·        Count reliably up to 6 everyday objects.

·        Respond to the vocabulary involved in addition and subtraction in rhymes and games.

·        Recognise differences in quantity when comparing sets of objects.

·        Find one more and one less when comparing objects from a group of up to 5 objects.

·        Experiment with a range of objects and materials showing some mathematical awareness.

·        Sort or match objects and to talk about sorting.

·        Describe shape in simple models, pictures and patterns.

 

4. Knowledge and Understanding of the World

The aims and purposes of this Learning Area in Early Years are to enable children to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding to make sense of the world.

This term children will learn to:

 

·        Show curiosity and interest by exploring their surroundings.

·        Observe, select and manipulate objects and materials.

·        Identify simple features and significant personal events.

·        Identify obvious similarities and differences when exploring and observing.

·        Construct in a purposeful way, using simple tools and techniques.

·        Investigate places, objects, materials and living things, by using all the senses as appropriate.

 

5. Physical Development

The aims and purposes of this Learning Area in Early Years is to enable children to gain confidence in knowing what they can do and to help them develop a sense of well-being through being physically active, as well as improving their skills of coordination, control, manipulation and movement. In addition to improving both fine and gross motor skills this learning area also aims to promote an understanding of a healthy lifestyle.

This term children will learn to:

 

·        Move spontaneously, showing some control and coordination.

·        Move with confidence in a variety of ways, showing some awareness of space;

·        Usually show appropriate control in large and small-scale movements.

 

 

 

·        Move with confidence, imagination and in safety.

·        Travel around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment.

·        Show awareness of space, of self and of others.

 

6. Creative Development

The aims and purposes of this Learning Area in Early Years are to enable children to make connections across different elements of learning and extend their understanding by providing practical first-hand experience and involvement for the child. Creative Development is often the vehicle for further learning or reinforcement of other Learning Areas.

This term children will learn to:

 

·        Explore different media and respond to a variety of sensory experiences.

·        Engage in representational play.

·        Create simple representations of events, people and objects.

·        Engage in music making.

·        Capture experiences using a variety of different media.

·        Sing simple songs from memory.

·        Explore colour, texture, shape, form and space in 2 or 3 dimensions.

·        Recognise and explore how sound can be changed.

·        Recognise repeated sounds and sound patterns and match movements to music.

·        Use imagination in art, design, music, dance, imaginative and role play and stories.