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HOP Early Years Education
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum 2021
Honor Oak Pre-school follows the national Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum, and aims to provide a safe, and stimulating learning environment to support young children's learning, growth, and development from early age in all areas through to the end of the foundation stage.
The EYFS Framework explains how and what your child will be learning to support their healthy development. Your child will be learning skills, acquiring new knowledge and demonstrating their understanding through 7 areas of learning and development.
Children should mostly develop the 3 prime areas first. These are: Communication and language; Physical development; and Personal, social and emotional development.These prime areas are those most essential for your child’s healthy development and future learning. As children grow, the prime areas will help them to develop skills in 4 specific areas. These are: Literacy; Mathematics; Understanding the world; and Expressive arts and design.
These 7 areas are used at the preschool to plan children’s learning and activities. The professionals teaching and supporting children at Honor Oak Preschool will make sure that the activities are suited to each child’s unique needs. This is a little bit like a curriculum in primary and secondary schools, but it's suitable for very young children, and it's designed to follow children's unique needs and interests. Children in the EYFS learn by playing and exploring, being active, and through creative and critical thinking which takes place both indoors and outside.
When your child is 2
At some point after your child turns 2, the professionals working with your child will give you a written summary of how your child is progressing against the 3 prime areas of learning including communication and language, physical development and personal, social and emotional development.This is called theprogress check at age 2. This check will highlight areas where your child is progressing well and any where they might need some extra help or support – and how mums and dads and other family members or carers can work with the key person to help. You might find it useful to share the information from the check with other professionals such as health visitors (who can use it as part of the health and development review).
When your child is 5
At the end of the EYFS – in the summer term of the reception year in school – teachers complete an assessment which is known as the EYFS Profile. This assessment is carried out by the reception teacher and is based on what they, and other staff caring for your child, have observed over a period of time.
Another important part of the EYFS Profile is your knowledge about your child’s learning and development, so do let your child’s class teacher know about what your child does with you: such as how confident your child is in writing their name, reading and talking about a favourite book, speaking to people your child is not so familiar with or their understanding of numbers.
All of the information collected is used to judge how your child is doing in the 7 areas of learning and development. Finding out at this stage how your child is doing will mean that the teacher your child has in their next school year – year 1 – will know what your child really enjoys doing and does well, as well as helping them decide if your child needs a bit of extra support, what that support should be and if they are already getting it.
The school will give you a report of your child’s progress, including information from his or her EYFS Profile.
Honor Oak Pre-school uses activities to enrich children's learning and achieving their early learning goals through:
Practical Life: These activities promote independence, co-ordination and fine/gross motor skills. They develop the child's concentration and dexterity. Amongst other things, the children have an opportunity to set the table, polish articles, carry out water exercises, do and undo zips, buttons, poppers, laces and buckles. They have many opportunities to discuss why things happen and how things work.
Sensory learning: Attractive materials are use to stimulate the senses and to develop the ability to make fine discrimination. Children explore materials of different shapes, textures and sizes. They have opportunities to respond to what they see, hear, smell, touch and feel.
Language and Literacy: Early language experience is gained through children talking about their experiences, listening to stories, reading books, and through participating in rhymes and songs. Every child is taught the phonetic sounds and shapes of letters. At Hop online children's bookstore, you will find recommendations of young literature and children'sn books by our preschool lead teacher Ms Carry.
Hop online Audio & Video Library: promote and support earlyyears language, speech and communication development. HOP Children Online Video & Audio Library is set up in 2020 by Ms Carry to support children's language development by listening to the stories and watching the video where illustrations are vividly showed as visual aids. This resource is particularly valuable when face to face teaching is not always available or the children can not physically be at the school.
HOP Extra Curriculum Classes
Ms Carry's Chinese Story for children podcast & other Publications
Ms Carry's chinese story for children podcast supports Children's language leaninging in Mandarin. Four seasons of selected Chinese Story Podcast will been made in total, three have been made accessible via Spotify, Google podcast, and apple podcast. They are carefully selected, blended and recorded. Many children and families have enjoyed it and I hope more can make use of it and can retell the stories to your friends and families. For more details, please visit Ms Carry's Chinese Class or Ms Carry's Chinese Story for Children Podcast Website
Where to Listen & Watch - Steaming and Listen Direct
Apple Podcast Spotify Podcast Google Podcast Chinese Class Youtube
Mathematical concept: Children describe shape, position and size. When the child's interest in numbers has been developed through sensory activities he/she is introduced to more complex maths activities. These include recognizing and writing numbers, sequencing, quantifying, addition and subtraction through planned activities, songs, and coking activities.
Understanding of the world: Children are encouraged to take an active interest in the world around them at all times e.g. the changing of the seasons, current affairs, personal news, other cultures e.t.c. Children study plants and animals to foster a love for growing and living things. Cultural emphasis on the cultural festivities would also be the highlights of the activity planning and children's experience.
Art and Craft : Children are free to express themselves through painting, drawing, crayoning, sticking and cutting. Topical craft activities are done by the children to take home.
Music & Movement: Singing, action rhymes and dancing are part of everyday activities at the preschool. We follow the Musical Development Matters Framework to support incoporate music into all other areas of EYFS learning at the preschool.
ICT: A range of simple educational programmes are used to help all children's learning. This includes language, mathematics, shape recognition and investigative programs. Home learning folder offers opportunities for parents to take active role in introducing ICT applciation around home and the supervision of screen time safety.
Physical Ability: All children are invited to join in with our physical activities. These include group games; keep fit sessions, parachute games, natural walks, and many more. (Referece - Physical Activity Guideline for under 5s)
Forest School Adaptation at Honor Oak Preschool Curriculum: Acknowledging the strengths & benefits the Forest School approach to the development and learning of our preschool children with respects to social, physical, intellectual, communication, emotional, and spiritual development, we make use of the neighbouring gardens & woodland including Benchley garden, Horniman garden natural trail, one tree hill and Peckham Rye Park.
HOP Music Club - Music Development Matters
Music Development plays an important part at the heart of Early Years Curriculum at Honor Oak Preschool. Our preschool children learn to sing with beats, act, dance and move with music and creativity weekly. We follow the national framework of muisc development matters. Chidlren are introduced to :
Musical terms
Pulse/beat: like a heartbeat, a steady beat underlying the music
Rhythm: pattern of sound
Pitch: high sounds, low sounds
Structure: how a piece of music/song is built up, eg verse-chorus-verse-chorus
Dynamics: loud, quiet, getting louder, getting quieter
Timbre: the character of a sound, eg smooth sound, spikey sound, scratchy sound
Texture: layers in the music, eg one sound or several sounds
Tempo: speed
Melodic shape: this is a little like the outline of the song or piece of music, picture a line that goes up steeply when the melody suddenly jumps to a much higher sound, or that goes down slowly when the melody gently falls. This “line” gives the contour or shape of the melodic line
Genre: the type of music, eg pop, jazz, folk, classical
Instruments
The word “instrument” is used throughout the entire guidance. This word refers to all resources
which have sound-making possibilities, eg pans and wooden spoons should be considered to be
instruments. All instruments should be treated with care and respect. By modelling respect and
care for instruments in the environment and valuing instruments, adults can offer clear and positive
messages about music making.
Musical Development Matters is a brand-new guidance document with an accompanying online resource, created by Nicola Burke. Musical Development Matters forms part of the legacy of the Tri-Music Together project. The free online accompanying resource can be found here: https://network.youthmusic.org.uk/musical-development-matters .The overall purpose of Musical Development Matters is to support practitioners, teachers, musicians and parents to see the musical attributes of young children and to offer ideas as to how they can support and nurture children’s musical development by offering broad musical experiences.
Reference - Statutory Framework for Early Years Foundation Stage & Develoment Matters for 0-5 & National Curriculum for KeyStage 1,2,3,4
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