Curriculum

The Cambridge Early Years curriculum:

• follows a holistic approach that focuses on the whole child and connects their development with the world and people around them.
• is built around four key areas of early childhood development:Physical developmentCognitive developmentLanguage and communication developmentSocial and emotional development
• develops knowledge, understanding and skills through a spiral approach, by revisiting and engaging with topics and skills in more depth at each stage.
• helps learners to meet internationally established milestones for early development. Although children develop at different rates, the curriculum provides a structure for teaching and learning that will help you to monitor and support each child’s progress.
• supports a bilingual or multilingual approach for learners with a home language other than English, as well as those with different experiences of English
• prepares learners to easily transition into Cambridge Primary, or the next stage in their education.
• content is split into six curriculum areas to guide you and support progress.

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Curriculum areas

Our six curriculum areas help you to guide and support progress across all areas of development.

Communication and literacy

Speaking, listening, reading and writing are crucial to children’s early development. Showing children the importance of language through fun activities and encouraging them to engage with a wide range of texts helps to ignite a lifelong curiosity for learning.

Creative expression

Creative expression allows children to communicate their ideas and develop their imagination through art and design, music, dance and drama. This important area brings together skills and cognitive processes from across the whole curriculum.

Mathematics

At an early age, it’s important to help children recognise how mathematics impacts everyday life. Through games and activities, we can introduce children to mathematical language, thinking and concepts that they will need when they start their primary education.

Physical development

Our curriculum encourages children to develop movement skills through play, helping them to develop positive attitudes towards exercise and laying the foundations for healthy, active lives.

Personal, social and emotional development

This area is central to children’s lives. It underpins their wellbeing and attainment in all other areas of their learning. This area helps them to develop social learning and friendships, regulate their emotional responses and respond to the needs of others, and develop self-esteem and confidence.

Understanding the world

This area of the curriculum encourages children’s natural curiosity as they explore the world around them. It lays foundations for a range of different subjects in primary education and beyond, including science, digital literacy, computing and humanities.

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