Our Curriculum Goals
Our curriculum goals are the level we hope children will be able to achieve when they leave nursery age 4 onto the next stage in their educational journey.
To track our children's progress towards our curriculum goals we use Development Matters to track on a termly basis to ensure that we fully understand the progress being made towards each goal.
The child’s Key Person will ensure that the child is making good progress towards their goals through summative and formative assessments on an ongoing cycle.
Communication and Language
Children can talk about things that interest them to other children and adults with a broad vocabulary.
Children have a broad range of vocabulary that they can use in appropriate ways.
Children can have two-way conversations with adults and children both one to one and in small groups, listening to others and speaking.
Children can engage in sustained shared thinking.
Children can use appropriate language to show their thinking (the process and their ideas)
Children can follow simple instructions.
Children can reflect on what they have done and learned.
Children can sing songs and rhymes.
Children enjoy sharing books with others.
Children can recreate familiar scenarios in a role play situation.
Children have a vocabulary that includes name for different people and occupations.
Children enjoy listening to stories read by others with intonation and animated expressions.
Children can pause to give themselves thinking time to consider their options.
Physical Development
Children have sufficient self-care skills to support their transition to the next stage in their learning journey.
Children build strength across their whole body – gross motor skills.
Children spend time being engaged in active games.
Children move in a variety of ways.
Children can use simple equipment safely.
Children are able explain safety rules.
Children can create their own safety rules.
Children understand the need for rest and sleep.
Children develop their fine motor skills to manipulate a wide variety of resources.
Personal Social Emotional Development
Children can adhere to the setting boundaries.
Children can follow and articulate the setting rules.
Children understand fairness to others.
Children can resolve simple conflicts with other children, sometimes with the support of adults.
Children can negotiate with each other.
Children can express their feelings.
Children can face new situations positively with appropriate adult support.
Children can tell us what is unique about themselves and others.
Children can play independently and in small groups.
Children explore through their play.
Children can share their ideas in play.
Children can talk about their play.
Children are developing their social skills.
Children can seek support when necessary.
Children can express their own likes, dislikes, and interests.
Literacy
Children can focus on meaningful print.
Children can mark make, ready for writing, in a variety of ways.
Children are developing their pre-writing skills.
Children can discuss characters, what might happen next, the plot, predict outcomes in stories they have shared.
Children can retell stories.
Children can make up their own stories.
Children develop an understanding of letters and numbers.
Children can recognise their own name.
Children can write their own name ready for the next stage in their learning journey.
Math
Children use songs with concepts of adding and taking away.
Children can compare sizes, lengths, distance, weights.
Children can recognise shapes and patterns.
Children are developing an ability to write numbers.
Children can recognise numbers.
Children can order numbers.
Children can match numbers to amounts.
Children use counting in play and daily routines.
Children use prepositions in play.
Children use the language of shape in play.
Children can share with support.
Children are interested in and beginning to understand simple number problems.
Understanding the World
Children can tell stories based on their experiences.
Children can explore the features of their local environment with a broad vocabulary.
Children can tell adults about the technology they use at home & demonstrate it at the setting in adult led learning opportunities.
Children can explain what they have learned and experienced of how things change over time.
Children can observe and explain theories for cause and effect in their play.
Children can tell you about their homes and communities.
Children experience different interactions with people within the community and develop positive relationships with them.
Expressive Art Design
Children focus on the process of art and creative experiences.
Children explore the world around them.
Children use a variety of skills and techniques and vocabulary to support that.
Children engage in stories, pictures, artist’s work, and a variety of media to stimulate their imagination and artistic practices.
Children explore how properties of materials change.
Children use a wide variety of media to express themselves.
Children develop the ability to create art focused on their intention.
