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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