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title: "Early Learning Goals"
url: "https://melbourne-inf.derbyshire.sch.uk/children/redlearningteam/early-learning-goals"
school: "Melbourne Infant School"
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# Early Learning Goals

| #### Areas | #### Aspect |
|---|:-:|
| **Personal, social and emotional development** | **Making relationships**- Children play co-operatively, 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**- 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**- 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 the rules. - They adjust their behaviour to different situations, and take changes of routine in their stride. |
| **Physical development** | **Moving and handling**- Children show good control and co-ordination 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**- 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. |
| **Communication and language** | **Listening and attention**- 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 their attention to what others say and responds appropriately, while engaged in another activity. |
| **Understanding**- Children follow instructions involving several ideas or actions. - They answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to stories or events. |
| **Speaking**- 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. |
| #### Specific Areas | #### Aspect |
| #### Literacy | **Reading**- Children read and understand simple sentences. - They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. - They also read some common irregular words. - They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read. |
| **Writing**- Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. - They also write some irregular common words. - They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. - Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible |
| #### Mathematics | **Numbers**- Children count reliably with numbers from 1 to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. - Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. - They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing. |
| **Shape, space and measure**- Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems. - They recognise, create and describe patterns. - They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them. |
| #### Understanding the world | **People and communities**- Children talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members. - 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**- 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**- Children recognise that a range of technology is used in places such as homes and schools. - They select and use technology for particular purposes. |
| #### Expressive arts and design | **Exploring and using media and materials**- 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**- 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. |

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