At Cawthorne’s Endowed School, we pride ourselves on our small family atmosphere where the children feel safe and free to develop in to their own unique character. We offer Early Years Foundation Stage provision for pupils the term after their third birthday. Our Nursery sessions are held on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 9am-3.30pm term time only. In Reception and Nursery, all learning is tailored to each individual child, following the Development Matters Framework.

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) gives the tools to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. It promotes teaching and learning and gives children the broad range of knowledge and skills that provide the right foundation for good future progress through school and life. 

Throughout your child’s Nursery and Reception years, we provide a wealth of child initiated and directed learning opportunities that will support your child’s progress towards the Early Learning Goals as well as well engaging continuous provision activities. We aim to listen to each child read daily, using books closely matched to your childs phonics phase. For Nursery children, picture books are available for them to borrow to enjoy at home as well as lots of opportunity for stories throughout the school day. All EYFS children will access daily phonics using Red Rose Phonics, Mathematics is also taught daily to Reception children using White Rose Maths. We have also implemented the use of Drawing Club to engage and inspire writing in EYFS. Our EYFS children enjoy our beautiful surroundings, regularly exploring on the estate where we are based as well as structured forest school sessions each week, giving them the skills to respect the area where we live, observe seasonal changes and to safely use the outdoors to enrich their learning.