Making Relationship
Initiates conversations, attends to and takes account of what others say.
Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.
Takes steps to resolve conflicts with other children, e.g. finding a compromise
Children play cooperatively, taking turns with others.
They take account of one another’s ideas about how to organise their activity.
They show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings and form positive relationships with adults and other children.
Self-Confidence and Self-Awareness
Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions.
Can describe self in positive terms and talk about abilities.
Children are confident to try new activities, and say why they like some activities more than others.
They are confident to speak in a familiar group, will talk about their ideas, and will choose the resources they need for their chosen activities.
They say when they do or don’t need help.
Managing Feelings and Behaviour
Understands that their own actions affect other people, for example, becomes upset or tries to comfort another child when they realise they have upset them.
Aware of the boundaries set and of behavioural expectations in the setting.
Beginning to be able to negotiate and solve problems without aggression e.g. when someone has taken their toy.
Children talk about how they and others show feelings, talk about their own and others behaviour, and its consequences, and know that some behaviour is unacceptable.
They work as part of a group or class, and understand and follow rules.
They adjust their behaviour to different situations and take changes of routine in their stride.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development - PRIME AREA (40 to 60 months)
Physical Development - PRIME AREA (40 to 60 months)
Moving and Handling
Experiment with different ways of moving.
Jump off an object and land appropriately.
Negotiates space successfully when playing racing and chasing games with other children, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles.
Travels with confidence and skill around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment.
Shows increasing control over an object, such as a ball, by touching, pushing, patting, throwing, catching or kicking it.
Use simple tools to effect changes to the materials
Handle tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control.
Shows a preference for dominant hand.
Begins to use anticlockwise movement and retrace vertical lines.
Begins to form recognisable letters.
Uses a pencil and holds it effectively to form recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed.
Children show good control and coordination in large and small movements.
They move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space.
They handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing
Health and Self Care
Eats a healthy range of foodstuffs and understands need for variety in food
Usually dry and clean during the day.
Show some understanding that good practices with regard to exercise, eating, sleeping and hygiene can contribute to good health.
Shows understanding of the need for safety when tackling new challenges and considers and manages some risks.
Show understanding of how to transport and store equipment safely.
Practise some appropriate safety measures without direct supervision.
Children know the importance for good health, of physical exercise, and a healthy diet and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe.
They manage their own basic hygiene and personal needs successfully, including dressing and going to the toilet independently.
Listening and Attention
Maintain attention, concentrates and sit quietly during appropriate activity
Two channelled attention – can listen and do for short span.
Children listen attentively in a range of situations They listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions.
They give attention to what others say and respond appropriately while engaged in another activity.
Speaking
Extends vocabulary, especially by grouping and naming, exploring the meaning and sounds of new words.
Uses language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations
Links statements and sticks to a main theme or intention
Uses talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events.
Introduce a storyline or narrative into their play.
Children express themselves effectively, showing awareness of listeners needs.
They use past, present and future forms accurately when talking about events that have happened or are to happen in the future.
They develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.
Communication and Language - PRIME AREA (40 to 60 months)
Understanding
Responds to instructions involving a two part sequence, understands humour e.g. nonsense rhymes, jokes
Able to follow a story without pictures or props.
Listens and responds to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion..
Children follow instructions involving several ideas or actions
They answer how and why questions about their experiences and in response to stories and events.
Literacy - SPECIFIC (40 to 60 months)
Reading
Continue a rhyming string.
Hear and say the initial sound in words
Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together and knows which letters represent some of them.
Link sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet.
Begins to read words and simple sentences.
Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experience of books.
Enjoy an increasing range of books.
Know that information can be retrieved from books and computers
Children read and understand simple sentences.
They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately.
They read some common irregular words
They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.Holds books the correct way up and turns pages.
Writing
Gives meaning to marks they make as they draw, write and paint.
Continues a rhyming string
Hears and says the initial sound in words
Begin to break the flow of speech into words,
Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together
Link sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet
Uses some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly and in sequence.
Write their own names and other things such as labels and captions
Attempts to write short sentences in meaningful contexts
Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds.
They write some irregular common words.
They write simple sentences which can be written by themselves and others.
Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
Mathematics - SPECIFIC (40 to 60 months)
Numbers
Recognise some numerals of personal significance.
Recognise numerals 1 to 5.
Count up to three or four objects by saying one number name for each item.
Count actions or objects that cannot be moved.
Counts objects up to 10 and begin to count beyond 10.
Count out up to six objects from a larger group
Select the correct numeral to represent 1 to 5, then 1 to 10 objects
Count an irregular arrangement of up to ten objects.
Uses the language of more or fewer to compare two sets of objects.
Finds the total number of items in two groups by counting all of them.
Say the number that is one more than a given number.
Find one more or one less than a number from a group of up to five objects and then to ten objects.
In practical activities and discussion, begin to use the vocabulary involved in adding and subtracting
Records using marks they can interpret and explain.
Begin to identify own mathematical problems based on own interests and fascinations.
Children count reliably with numbers from one to twenty, place them in order and say which number is one more/one less than a given number.
Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single digit numbers and count on and back to find the answer.
They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.
Shape, Space and Measures
Begin to use mathematical names for ‘solid’ 3D shapes and ‘flat’ 2D shapes, and mathematical terms to describe shapes.
Select a particular named shape.
Can describe their relative position such as behind or next to.
Order two or three items by length or height.
Order two items by weight or capacity.
Use familiar objects and common shapes to create and recreate patterns and build models.
Use everyday language related to time.
Beginning to use everyday language related to money.
Order and sequence familiar events
Measures short periods of time in simple ways.
Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems.
Talk about, recognise and recreate simple patterns.
They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.
People and Communities
Enjoys joining in with family customs and routines
Children talk about past and present events in their own lives, and in those of their families.
They know that other children don’t always enjoy the same things, and are sensitive to this.
They know about similarities and differences between themselves and others, and among families, communities and traditions.
The World
Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change.
Children know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things.
They talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.
They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur and talk about changes.
Technology
Complete a simple program on a computer.
Uses ICT hardware to interact with age-appropriate computer software.
Children recognise that a range of technology is used in places such as homes and schools.
They select and use technology for particular purposes.
Understanding the World - SPECIFIC (40 to 60 months)
Expressive Arts and Designs - SPECIFIC (40 to 60 months)
Exploring and using Media and Materials
Begin to build a repertoire of songs and dances.
Explore the different sounds of instruments.
Explore what happens when they mix colours.
Experiment to create different textures.
Understand that different media can be combined to create new effects.
Constructs with a purpose in mind, using a variety of resources.
Uses simple tools and techniques competently and appropriately
Selects appropriate resources and adapts work where necessary.
Selects tools and techniques needed to shape, assemble and join materials they are using.
Children sing songs, make music and dance, and experiment with ways of changing them.
They safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
Being Imaginative
Create simple representations of events, people and objects.
Initiates new combinations of movements and gesture in order to express and respond to feelings, ideas and experiences
Chooses particular colours to use for a particular purpose
Introduce a storyline or narrative into their play.
Play alongside other children who are engaged in the same theme.
Play cooperatively as part of a group to act out a narrative.
Children use what they have learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes.
They represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role play and stories.