Our Curriculum

Our curriculum focuses on the seven areas of learning:

• Communication and language

• Physical Development

• Personal, social and emotional development

• Literacy

• Mathematics

• Understanding the World

• Expressive arts and design

 

The Early Years Curriculum at Vane Road is ambitious and central to everything is developing children’s language.

We promote that every child:

• Is exposed to ‘five a day' language rich experiences through stories, poems, nursery rhymes and songs.

• Has access to at least one physical education lesson weekly.

• Is expected to have the opportunity to develop accurate letter and number formation prior.

• Develops a love of learning– they are confident, articulate and increasingly 
  independent learners, because their curriculum is fun, inspiring and relevant.

 

Across the Lingfield Education Trust, we recognise and value the unique opportunities and benefits that an excellent Early Years curriculum can bring. As a Trust, we routinely revisit and reflect upon and share our expectations for a quality Early Years, encompassing our Trust values, and collective experience – along with a realignment of the core principles of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

These principles are:

• every child is a unique child, who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured,

• children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships,

• children learn and develop well in enabling environments, with teaching and support from adults who respond to their individual interests and needs,

• building upon their learning over time, children develop and learnin different ways and at different rates.

 

Whilst some aspects of our ‘Trust Ready’ curriculum are academically challenging, we fully embed and ‘live’ the three characteristics of effective teaching and learning of:

• Playing and exploring - children investigate and experience things, and ‘have a go’

• Active learning - children concentrate, keep on trying if they encounter difficulties, and enjoy achievements

• Creating and thinking critically - children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things.

 

We aim to develop the “whole child” so that they become ‘good citizens’, who will go on to do ‘great things’. Developing children’s character, through respect, resilience, kindness, inclusivity and ambition are central to daily life at Vane Road Primary School.

At Vane Road Primary School, we believe these five core values underpin everything we do.

• Respect; all our relationships are built upon this.

• Ambition; we can aspire to be whatever and whoever we wish.

• Kindness; we are kind to all.

• Resilience; we have the ability to bounce back from challenges we face.

• Inclusivity; we accept we are all different but treat each other equally

 

We ensure that the children leaving our Foundation Stage are individual, unique and creative learners.

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Key Documents:

EYFS LTP                      Trust Ready Document