Learning Tips

In Foundation Stage our learning tips are:

• Keep it stimulating and fun - Early Years children will learn better when the activities are fun - who wouldn't!
• Keep it short - Remember that Early Years children have the attention span of one minute for every year of their life. Your average 5 year old concentrates on a task for 5 minutes!
• Keep it play based - Play is one of the central themes to the Foundation Stage. A tricky learning activitity can be encouraged easily through play.
• Keep it singing - musical songs and stories help to reinforce Mathematical Development in the car, in the garden or walking to School.
• Keep it interactive - child enjoy learning through interaction.
• Keep it child initiated and led - if it comes from your own child, they will want to explore it more.
• Encourage independence - you start a learning fire and let the children follow their own 'smoke'.
• Keep it explorative - investigative play is good!
• Keep it visual - some Early Years children respond to the visual stimulus.
• Keep it imaginative - Early Years children respond to stories, rhymes and poems.
• Keep it talking - Children in Foundation respond to interaction and chat, and learn through enagement.
• Keep it wet and messy - explorative work in sand and water promotes much discussion and learning.
• Keep it repetitious - over learning (but not rote) is a fun way to re-cap on prior learning.