EYFS Lead: Jenny Nokes

Brooke Schools Early Years provision is communication rich. Providing a creative, experiential, enabling environment which sparks curiosity and awe. Nurturing our learners to become independent, confident and resilient. 

The Key Aims of our curriculum: 

1. To ensure that every pupil has a means of communicating and expressing themselves.
2. To make learning creative, meaningful and engaging.
3. To provide a safe, secure and welcoming learning environment.
4. To form close partnerships with our parents/carers, keeping them fully informed of their child’s progress.
5. To provide a secure foundation through new experiences, interactions, open-ended and challenging learning opportunities in preparation for primary 

Characteristics of Effective Learning (Learning Behaviours)

The Characteristics of Effective Learning are an important part of Early Years. These describe the learning behaviours that children use to learn. 

There are three characteristics of effective learning are:

• Playing and Exploring - children investigate and experience things, and ‘have a go’.
• Active Learning - children concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties, and enjoy achievements.
• Creating and Thinking Critically - children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things.'

For effective learning, children should engage with opportunities driven by curiosity, energy, and enthusiasm, which is at the heart of our Curriculum.

Learning becomes most impactful when it holds meaning for the child, enabling them to apply their knowledge in new situations. These skills and attitudes of confident learners help them progress across all Areas of Learning and Development.

In our Early Years, here are behaviours linked back to the main characteristics of effective learning, that we focus on and promote everyday through our learning provision: