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Parents and Carers Guide to: Tatty Bumpkin Adventures: Week by Week and Throughout the Year Welcome To Tatty Bumpkin!
Tatty Bumpkin sessions help your child progress and learn by incorporating all areas of you child’s development into the classes. Tatty Bumpkin and The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). In the Tatty Bumpkin classes we incorporate the areas of child development outlined in the Early Years Foundation Stage. The EYFS is a government document that provides guidelines for parents, nurseries and preschools on their child’s education. (Practice Guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage May 2008) What Is The Early Years Foundation Stage? The EYFS is a central part of the government’s ten year childcare strategy ‘Choice for parents - the best start for children’ and the Childcare Act of 2006. Historically, these documents build on the ‘Every Child Matters’ scheme. ‘Every Child Matters’ was a document published by the government in 2003 alongside a formal response to the report into the death of Victoria Climbié. The overarching aim of the EYFS is to help young children achieve the five outcomes of staying safe, being healthy, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution, and achieving economic well-being (originally outlined in Every Child Matters document). From September 2008 all providers of child care (day nurseries, preschools and child care centres) will be legally obliged to follow the EYFS practice guidance to ensure the delivery of quality experiences to support a child’s learning, development and care from when they are born to 5 years of age. What are the Principles Of the Early Years Foundation Stage? The principles, which guide childcare provision under the EYFS, are grouped into four themes: 1. The Uniqueness of Each Child – The idea that every child is a competent learner from birth, who can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured. 2. The Importance of Positive Relationships – The idea that children learn to be strong and independent from a base of loving and secure relationships with parents and/or a key carer. 3. The Environment Needs to Enable the child– The idea that the environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning. 4. An Understanding of Learning and Development – The idea that children develop and learn in different ways, at different rates. All areas of Learning and Development are equally important and inter-connected. At Tatty Bumpkin we realize the importance of such principles and we feel Tatty Bumpkin classes bring in all these principles.
What Is the Structure of the EYFS? The EYFS identifies six areas of child development, these are: 1. Personal, Emotional and Social Development 2. Language, Communication and Literacy 3. Problem Solving Reasoning and Numeracy 4. Knowledge and Understanding of the World 5. Physical Development 6. Creative Development Within each of these areas several ‘aspects’ have been outlined, in each six-week block we work through these aspects so all parts of the development areas are covered. We call this scheme ‘Tatty Bumpkin Adventures: Week by Week and Throughout the Year’
Tatty Bumpkin: Week by Week and Throughout the Year Tatty Bumpkin classes bring the EYFS recommended guidelines together in ‘bite sized’ portions, working through the areas of development on a week- by- week basis over the year. This is reassuring for you as a parent and can help with your child’s transition into school. For more details please visit Deborah Maddisons's Tatty Bumpkin Website |
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