What is the Early Years Foundation Stage?

Welcome to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), which is how the Government and early years professionals describe the time in your child’s life between birth and age 5. This is a very important stage as it helps your child become ‘school ready’ as well as preparing them for their future learning and successes. From when your child is born up until the age of 5, we strongly believe that their early years experience should be happy, active, exciting, fun and secure; and support their development, care and learning needs. In order for children to acquire a deep level of learning, it is important to ensure they have opportunities to build memory prompts, enabling them to recall things which they have learnt, effectively continuing to build their knowledge as they progress throughout education.

Useful Early Years Downloads

  • Statutory Framework

    The framework we follow as a Early Years provider.

  • Starting Reception

    Your childs journey to starting school.

  • Early Reading

    At Ernesettle Community School, we believe that reading and writing is an essential life skill.

  • Tapestry

    All Early Years children will have a personal online Learning Journey which records.

  • The Bristol Standard

    The Bristol Standard is a self-evaluation framework that is used by early years practitioners.