Learning in Reception Class

“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”  Fred Rogers

In Reception class we learn through planned, purposeful play using a range of adult directed and child initiated activities.  Our adult led learning and continuous provision enhancements are planned to reflect the EFYS curriculum and the children’s own interests.  There are seven areas of learning in our curriculum.

These are:
-Personal, Social and Emotional Development
-Physical Development
-Communication and Language
-Literacy
-Mathematics
-Understanding of the World
-Expressive Art and Design

Three characteristics of effective teaching and learning identified by the EYFS 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; and
• creating and thinking critically - children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things.

The focus of the CoEL is on how children learn rather than what they learn i.e. process over outcome.