| Prime areas | Specific Areas |
|---|---|
| Making Relationships | Literacy |
| Self confidence and Self Awareness | Reading |
| Managing Feelings and Behaviour | Writing |
| Communication and Language | Mathematics |
| Listening and Attention | Numbers |
| Understanding | Shape Space and measure |
| Speaking | |
| Understanding the World | |
| Physical Development | |
| People and Communities | |
| Moving and Handling | The World |
| Health and Self Care | Technology |
| Expressive Arts and Design | |
| Exploring and using Media and Materials | |
| Being Imaginative | |
The prime areas of learning underpin learning and development in the other specific areas. With this in mind, we start our year with a focus on the prime areas as the children settle into school, and then into classes, after a few weeks. In particular, we focus on children's social development and communication skills. School routines are established over a number of weeks, in order to introduce new opportunities gradually, such as Read Write inc (the teaching of synthetic phonics) PE, Forest School and Computing lessons. Throughout the year children have a variety of child-initiated and adult directed learning opportunities, both indoors and outdoors, utilising our creative area, courtyard and garden.
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