How your child learns with us
Learning through careful planning
Everything at Twinkle Star is organised around the Early Years Foundation Stage, the framework that guides how young children learn and develop. Our staff plan each child's experiences across its seven areas of learning.
The environment plays a key role too. Our rooms and garden are well equipped with age-appropriate resources, indoors and outdoors, and every child works towards the Early Learning Goals through play that is planned around their interests.
The seven areas of learning
Three prime areas build the foundations. Four specific areas grow from them.
Prime areas
Personal, social and emotional development
Confidence, friendships and feelings, the foundations of everything else.
Communication and language
Listening, understanding and finding the words to join in.
Physical development
Strong, confident movers, from first steps to climbing and balancing.
Specific areas
Literacy
Stories, rhymes, letters and sounds, every single day.
Mathematics
Numbers, shapes and patterns found in everyday play.
Understanding the world
People, places and nature, explored with curious eyes.
Expressive arts and design
Paint, music, role play and making, imagination given room.
You can read more about the Early Years Foundation Stage at foundationyears.org.uk.
See learning in action
The best introduction to the EYFS is watching the children at play. Come and spend some time with us.