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Early Years – The Foundation Stage -
Age 3 to the end of the Reception Year
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The foundation stage, introduced from September 2000, is a stage of education for children aged from three to the end of the reception year.  It is a distinct stage and important both in its own right and in preparing children for later schooling.

Click to access the QCA – Foundation Stage:
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Foundation Stage

Early learning goals provide six areas of learning that lay a secure basis for children's future learning.

The early learning goals establish expectations for most children to reach by the end of the foundation stage, but are not a curriculum in themselves.

They are organised in six areas of learning:
  • personal, social and emotional development;
  • communication, language and literacy;
  • mathematical development;
  • knowledge and understanding of the world;
  • physical development;
  • creative development.
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The early learning goals provide the basis for planning throughout the foundation stage, so laying secure foundations for future learning. By the end of the foundation stage, some children will have exceeded the goals. Other children will be working towards some or all of the goals – particularly younger children, those who have not had high-quality early years experience, those with special educational needs and those learning English as additional language.
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