Lane End Primary School

At Lane End Primary School, we are committed to providing a purposeful and empowering Early Years Curriculum that fully prepares our younger learners for the next steps in their school career and opens the doors to the wider world. A curriculum in which prime areas of learning are at the heart of all we do. We believe that knowledge and skill are intrinsically linked and therefore balance our curriculum on the acquisition of prepositional and procedural knowledge: our Early Years curriculum is skills based and knowledge-rich. We believe that our ambitious curriculum provokes curiosity and excitement, leading to deeper learning journeys. 

The Early Years Curriculum is driven by focussing on key texts, questions, big ideas and the understanding that all of our learning is linked through experience, conversations and connections which unite children with the world around us.   

We consistently provide enhancement opportunities to engage inquisitive minds and believe that early childhood should be a memorable, exploratory and contextualised period of our lives where there are no limits to marvel and there is a thirst to gain new experiences and knowledge. The Early Years Curriculum is designed to develop the characteristics of effective learning: 

• Creating and thinking critically – children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things. 
• Active learning – children keep on trying if they encounter difficulties, and enjoy their achievements. 
• Playing and exploring – children investigate and experience things, and ‘have a go’.

Our Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum forms the foundations for learners to transition smoothly into our Whole School Curriculum therefore sharing the same vision, values and key concepts. In each curriculum area, areas of study have been carefully mapped to ensure that children leave primary school with the knowledge which fully prepares them for their next steps in education. At each stage, learning is consolidated and extended, meaning new learning is built upon what has gone before through the seven areas of learning.