The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets standards for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5 years old. Children will mostly be taught through games and play.
The areas of learning are:
- Communication and language.
- Physical development.
- Personal, social and emotional development.
- Literacy.
- Mathematics.
- Understanding the world.
- Expressive arts and design.
After that, the national curriculum is organised into blocks of years called ‘key stages’ (KS).
Key Stage 1 covers Year 1 and Year 2.
The main areas of learning are:
- Literacy learning includes fiction and non-fiction books, improving handwriting and writing in full sentences.
- Maths learning includes number lines, number bonds, times tables, 2D and 3D shapes.
- Science covers investigative skills, life and living things, physical processes and materials.
Key Stage 2 covers Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6.
Students will work with simple-to-follow lessons and videos. They will keep learning with short films, quizzes and practice activities that deliver each term’s key topics.
- English worksheets including comprehension, grammar and spelling activities.
- Maths worksheets including multiplying, dividing, mental maths and solving problems using time, measure or money.
- Science worksheets including topics as the living world, human body, materials, forces and motion, light and sound, electricity or Earth and space.
