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Term Dates for all schools until July 2013
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Dates when Year 6 pupils will sit the papers during 2011/12
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Your guide to Higher Education funding
Foundation Stage (4-5 years)
The Foundation Stage covers pupils going into the Reception Year at school who are usually aged four or five.
The Education Department works co-operatively with other States Departments and agencies to ensure that all children and young people have the best possible start in life and are:
- Healthy and Nurtured,
- Safe,
- Achieving and Active,
- Respected and Responsible,
- Included.
In the Reception year children cover six areas of learning within their core curriculum
- Knowledge and understanding of the world
- Personal, social and emotional development
- Communication, language and literacy
- Mathematical development
- Physical development
- Creative development.
There are also a number of cross-curricular themes than run across the Foundation Stage and Key Stages 1 and 2.
- Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
- Financial capability
- Enterprise education
- Education for sustainable development
