Adventurers - EYFS

Our EYFS Vision

We aim to deliver a curriculum that is accessible, engaging and effective for our autistic learners. By creating this, we will ensure a positive start to Springfields life for our youngest learners, building strong foundations and the stepping-stones needed for our children to lead safe, independent lives.

At Springfields Academy the children are at the forefront of everything we do. In the Early Years Foundation Stage, we endeavour to provide the children with an excellent learning experience where all children are able to flourish, grow and progress to the best of their abilities. We take a holistic approach, embracing the children interests and ensuring that sensory needs are met through the learning opportunities provided.

“Every child deserves the best possible start in life and the support that enables them to fulfil their potential. The EYFS promotes teaching and learning to ensure children’s ‘readiness’ for learning and gives children the right foundation for good future progress through school and life. The EYFS is about what children learn, as well as how they learn. Children learn through play, by adults modelling, by observing each other and through adult-guided learning.”

(Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage).

We believe that the children's EYFS experience should be happy, active, exciting, fun, secure and support their development, care and learning needs.

In order for Early Years practice to be effective and have an impact on pupil outcomes, we aim to:

• Develop and promote independent skills in line with our Life Skills and Autism Tracker.
• Create communication friendly environments.
• Promote outdoor learning as part of the curriculum.
• Adjust practice appropriately to promote the three characteristics of effective teaching and learning as written in the statutory framework for EYFS, these are:

-playing and exploring: children investigate and experience things, and ‘have a go’.

- active learning: children concentrate and keep on trying and enjoy achievements.

- creating and thinking critically: children develop their own ideas, make links and develop strategies for doing things.