The Early Years Foundation Stage at

Farnborough Road Infant School.

At Farnborough Road Infant School, we welcome children into our Caterpillar Nursery Class from the age of 2 years.  Children move to our Butterfly or Ladybird Nursery Classes when they start ‘Big Nursery’ at 3 and 4 years old.  Children then move into one of our four Reception classes for their final year in the Early Years Foundation Stage.

This key stage is such an important time in your child's school life, where new skills are developed and routines are established.  We will work closely with you, to ensure that your child has a fantastic learning journey with us at Farnborough Road Infant School.  

Our staff will plan and guide children’s activities across the seven areas of learning. These include three prime areas and four specific areas.  The Prime Areas are:

Communication and Language, Physical Development and Personal, Social and Emotional Development.

The Specific Areas are:

Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design. 

Your child will work towards achieving seventeen early learning goals across these areas of learning.  More information regarding this will be shared at parents/carers meetings (see below for more details).  

We will reflect on the different ways that children learn. We will incorporate your child's hobbies and interests into our exciting curriculum and use our wonderful learning environments to enhance their learning.   Children will explore all topics through the characteristics of effective learning.  These are:

• playing and exploring
• being active learners
• being creative and thinking critically.

We will share our weekly news with you, detailing the topics, phonics, number focus, events and homework of the week.   We offer 'Stay and Share' experiences for parents/carers to attend as well as .

Data EYFS  2024-25

For more information about the Early years Curriculum see Mrs Price- Early Years Leader