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Our Core Values

MANOR PRIMARY SCHOOL EYFS INTENT

 At Manor Primary School, we inspire a lifelong love of learning by building strong, nurturing relationships and providing a stimulating, engaging environment. We support every child in developing the essential skills across all areas of learning to help them achieve their Early Learning Goals and ensure they are fully prepared to access the Year 1 curriculum with confidence.  This is achieved though;

• Creating a challenging and stimulating learning environment that reflects and responds to each child’s unique interests and developmental needs.
• Acting as skilled and reflective practitioners, carefully observing, assessing, and understanding children’s learning to thoughtfully extend and scaffold their development.
• Offering high-quality, purposeful interactions that nurture children’s natural curiosity and encourage them to explore, question, and make sense of the world around them.
• Using a range of open-ended questions to promote problem-solving, critical thinking, and independent inquiry.
• Effectively modelling and extending vocabulary in meaningful contexts, supporting language development through rich, engaging learning experiences.
• Building on children’s prior knowledge and lived experiences, ensuring learning is relevant, connected, and progressive.

MANOR PRIMARY SCHOOL EYFS IMPLEMENTATION

 We will implement our EYFS curriculum by…

• Promoting the Characteristics of Effective Learning alongside nurturing children's positive mental health and wellbeing, to maximise engagement, involvement, and enjoyment in learning.
• Delivering a carefully balanced curriculum through whole-class teaching, adult-led small group sessions, and child-initiated, interest-driven activities that are open-ended and self-directed.
• Supporting children to deepen their knowledge and understanding through high-quality interactions that enable them to know more and remember more over time.
• Organising classroom resources and continuous provision enhancements to promote progress, independence, and challenge. Enhancements are responsive to children’s interests or fascinations, evolving over time to allow children to lead their learning—enhancing engagement, motivation, and behaviour.
• Ensuring that teaching focuses on the process of learning rather than the end product, valuing exploration, creativity, and critical thinking over completion.

Our focused and personalised planning systems enable us to identify next steps for individual children in the moment. These often arise from spontaneous, child-initiated experiences that reflect their interests and curiosity. Planning is revisited with the children to help consolidate understanding and support long-term memory of their learning. Children are active participants in their learning journey—their voices are valued and embedded in the process, helping to shape and enrich both their own and their peers’ EYFS experiences.

MANOR PRIMARY SCHOOL EYFS IMPACT

At Manor Primary School, we are committed to ensuring that all children make good or better progress from their individual starting points. Our priority is that children are happy, confident, and successful in their early learning journey. We actively support the development of the Characteristics of Effective Learning, helping each child become a motivated, curious, and resilient lifelong learner.

Children’s mental health, wellbeing, and level of involvement are closely monitored and nurtured throughout the EYFS. We recognise the vital role these factors play in a child’s ability to thrive, and we are dedicated to creating an environment where every child feels secure, supported, and ready to learn."

EYFS Parents Transitions - 2025-2026