At King Edward, our EYFS curriculum is a creative and carefully designed framework that inspires a love of learning, fosters curiosity and builds the foundations for lifelong skills. We provide a rich environment full of opportunities and vocabulary to promote knowledge, understanding and the development of transferable skills.

Spoken language lies at the heart of our curriculum and underpins all seven areas of learning and development. Our curriculum is thoughtfully sequenced to support children in building their knowledge over time. We are passionate about encouraging children to explore the world around them, ask questions, try new things and experience the awe and wonder of learning.

We believe that effective pedagogy is a balance of approaches. Children learn through play, by observing and interacting with others, through adult modelling, and through guided and direct teaching. Our staff carefully organise enabling environments, indoors and outdoors, that support high-quality play and independent exploration, making learning both meaningful and enjoyable.

We have high expectations for all children and are committed to helping them become respectful, independent, and creative learners.

Strong relationships with parents are central to our approach. We pride ourselves on the partnerships we build throughout a child’s journey at King Edward. We warmly invite parents to join our ‘Stay and Play’ sessions in F1 and ‘Early Bird Readers’ in F2. We hold regular parent meetings and drop in sessions to inform parents of how their child is learning at school.

Our aim is for children to leave EYFS as happy, imaginative, well-rounded children who have built up resilience to try and solve problems independently. We recognise the crucial role that Early Years education has to play in providing firm foundations upon which the rest of the child’s education is successfully based.