Subject Lead: Mrs K O’Connor
EYFS Curriculum
- Reception Overview 2026 (566.24KB)
- EYFS School Development Plan (222.09KB)
- Intent, Implementation and Impact in EYFS (860.16KB)
- Art in EYFS (128.28KB)
- Computing in EYFS (120.59KB)
- Design and Technology in EYFS (126.89KB)
- Geography in EYFS (145.63KB)
- History in EYFS (143.38KB)
- Music in EYFS (121.09KB)
- Science in EYFS (124.09KB)
Early Years at The Ryde School
The Early Years Foundation Stage is the crucial beginning of every child’s learning journey. At The Ryde Primary School, we believe that every child is unique and strive to provide an enabling environment that is nurturing and inclusive. Our EYFS curriculum is designed to ensure that children develop the knowledge, learning and life-long skills that they need to succeed in life. Our learning includes carefully planned continuous provision where children have the opportunity to investigate and apply their learning using both the indoor and outdoor environments, alongside adult-led teaching. This provides positive experiences for all children to become curious learners who are motivated and have a thirst for learning. We foster positive relationships with the children and their families in which children learn to be resilient, creative, ambitious and respectful in a safe, nurturing and inclusive environment.
Children follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum, which includes:
Prime Areas
Communication and language
Physical development
Personal, social, and emotional development
Specific Areas
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding of the World
Expressive arts and design
Our curriculum is designed to be ambitious with careful sequencing. Our learning is interlinked with all curriculum areas, with communication and language at the heart of all learning.
We are very fortunate that all children at The Ryde School have the opportunity to participate in Forest School sessions. In EYFS these sessions take place weekly. Our Forest School sessions allow the children the time and space to develop skills, interests and understanding through a range of activities which provide practical, hands-on experience in a natural environment. It encourages resilient, confident, independent and creative learners. As well as exploring our own school environment during Forest School, we make regular trips to The Dell, embracing our local community.
