Welcome to Heathfield Primary School Early Years!

We welcome you to our Early Years Foundation Stage.

Here at Heathfield Primary School, we pride ourselves in providing a secure foundation for future learning and development for all of our children.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We aim to provide a happy, stimulating, safe environment which allows each child to develop their full potential in our ever-changing world: intellectually, physically, socially, emotionally and spiritually. We provide the children with the balance of child-initiated play, focused and structured learning to ensure that they enjoy learning to read, write, use numbers, think mathematically, explore their world and make creations.

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Our Curriculum

Our curriculum focuses on the seven areas of learning of the Early Years Foundation Stage:

 

• Communication and language

• Physical development

• Personal, social and emotional development

• Literacy

• Mathematics

• Understanding the world

• Expressive arts and design

 

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, in which their experiences respond to their individual needs and there is a strong partnership between practitioners and parents, carers and families;

• children develop and learn in 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.

 

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Nursery Information

We currently offer both 15 hours and 30 hours provision.

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All 3-4 year olds are entitled to 15 hours free early learning and some children may be entitled to 30 hours. For children accessing 15 hours entitlement, we currently offer morning sessions from 8:45-11:45am and afternoon sessions from 12:15-3:15pm. For children accessing 30 hours entitlement, the session runs from 8:45am to 2:45pm. These children will eat their lunch at school and can either bring a packed lunch from home or pay for a school dinner.

 

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