Foundation
Foundation Stage
The Foundation Stage Profile is used at the end of reception school and allowing parents and carers to share information on which the next practitioner can build.
There are six areas of learning observed:
Six Areas of Learning
Personal, social and emotional development (per/soc/em)
- Dispositions and attitudes
- Confidence and self esteem
- Making relationships
- Behaviour and self control
- Self care
- Sense of community
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Knowledge and understanding of the world (kuw)
- Exploration and investigation
- Designing and making skills
- Information and communication technology
- Sense of time
- Sense of place
- Cultures and beliefs
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Communication, language and Literacy (com/lan/lit)
- Language for communication
- Language for thinking
- Links between sounds and letters
- Reading
- Writing
- Handwriting
- Shape, space and number
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Physical development
- Movement
- Sense of space
- Health and bodily awareness
- Using equipment
- Using tools and materials
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Mathematical development
- Numbers as labels for counting
- Calculating
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Creative development
- Exploring media and materials
- Music
- Imagination
- Responding to experiences, & expressing & communicating ideas
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