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The early years curriculum that supports children's care learning and development is the foundation phase. Foundation phase promotes learning through play. There are 7 areas of learning that consists of: physical development
Physical development is physical movements of all areas of the body. This may include fine motor skills, gross motor skills and hand eye co-ordination. Fine motor skills may be for e.g. threading a bead on to a piece of string, gross motor skills are for e.g. star jumps and hand eye co-ordination is for e.g. throwing a ball and catching it. These activities can be done indoors and outdoors. Creative development
Creative development is all about imagination, role play, messy play, making music , junk modelling and mark making. Equipment that they use within the foundation phase are sand and water, drawing and painting materials, empty containers, play dough, cooking and also puppets and fancy dress. The foundation phase is all about child led activities and making choices and also adult led activities. knowledge and understanding of the world
Knowledge and understanding of the world is all about the world around us and our families and the community. The children learn all about the weather different festivals and cultures, the environment including recycling, people who help us and also the community e.g. doctors, post office. Welsh language
Welsh language is all about introducing basic welsh to the children, this may include short phrases, colours and numbers. mathematical development
Mathematical development is all about shapes, colours and numbers. The development of these can be done in lots of different ways including learning through play using both indoors and outdoors. Maths is all about sorting, matching sequencing and measuring.
language, literacy and communication
This area of learning is all about reading, writing and speech. We help the children to control a pencil and then to