The new framework for the early years foundation stage describes the three characteristics of effective teaching and learning as: Playing and exploring: children investigate and experience things and ‘have a go’; Active learning: children concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties and enjoy achievements; Creating and thinking critically: children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas and develop strategies for doing things. This observation overview uses the statements from Development Matters 2020. It has been designed to record observations over the year, to give practitioners an overview of how each child learns. The statements from Development Matters 2020 are on each sheet, alongside a space for adults to record their observations of the child. They are colourful and match the Characteristics posters that I have made.

Two pages of EYFS Development Matters Statements for Reception age children, split into the two areas, Prime areas and specific areas.

At the Beach role play pack for children to use their imagination. Includes: Numbered sea animals 1-30 Lower and Upper Case alphabet beach pebbles Key Vocab Role play shopping list Role Play Beach hut food Beach Hut order form

Early Years Development Matters for three to four year olds. Split into the sections: Prime and specific. Contains three pages of statements.

Early years new development matters from birth to three years. Three pages of statements focussing on prime and specific areas of development.

Two pages showing the Early years development matters Early Learning Goals. Split into the two areas: specific and prime areas of learning.

Two worksheets to say who and what can be found at the farm.

Two simple sheets about who you’d find at an airport and what they do.

Here is a classroom rules poster I used in my class.

This is a great tool for your children to have next to them during their literacy lessons. Contains all the phase 2-5 high frequency words. The coloured sections are split into the 4 different phases. All tricky words are identified by a little coloured alien. This resource can be displayed around the room to support all children.

Are you learning about food? This resource is a fun activity for children to complete. It can follow on a game of ‘Granny went to the shop’. Children think of a food beginning with each letter of the alphabet. They can draw and write their answer in each box.

What a fun activity for children to complete. Using mirrors, children can draw a selfie on the phone. This is a super tool to get to know your students, along with assessing their fine motor control and understanding of pictures. This can be used to encourage children to talk about themselves.

These three pages link greatly to emotions. These feeling faces allow children to think about what emotions people express. A great tool to use alongside this is a mirror for the children to use as they think about the different emotions.

Have you been learning about ‘The Rainbow Fish’ or fish in general? This resource can be used in your continuous provision. There are three fish templates to use. I suggest leaving shiny items, coloured paper, paint, etc for children to decorate the fish templates.

Sometimes seeing everyday objects can really help embed children’s understanding of 3D shapes. This colourful activity allows children to discuss the every day objects and decide which box they are going to glue them into. There are 24 every day pictures of objects for your children to sort through. A great opportunity to encourage them to talk about other 3D shapes they can see around their classroom, school, home etc.

Children love to read words that don’t make sense, so why not read these ‘Alien words’. Using their phonic knowledge children can decode the words which appear on a 34 page powerpoint. A great resource to use especially when children are in Year 1 and have to take the ‘Phonic Screening test’.

Children will have fun completing this two page activity linked to what they’d find at the fire station. This is a great tool for encouraging children to discuss the kind of objects and people they would find in a fire station environment.

Wanting something to inspire you creative learners? This is a great product to encourage your children to get creative and make masterpieces within photo frames. Use alongside inspirational artists work, and leave out for your children to become the next Van Gough, or Picasso.

A great product to use in your continuous provision. Laminated these ten sheets can be used over and over again, helping children to hear initial, middle and final sounds in words. Lots of colourful pictures to encourage children to say the word then write the word. This a great tool to see how your pupils understand blending sounds to make CVC words. CVC words quantity

Children love investigating their environment and the great outdoors. Why not take your children on a minibeast hunt? This resource is ideal to attach to a clipboard and to go on a minibeast hunt around your setting. Children can use the pictures to help find different minibeasts.