Development Matters

ELG

Nursery

• Select and use activities and resources, with help when needed. This helps them to achieve a goal they have chosen, or one which is suggested to them.
•  Develop their sense of responsibility and membership of a community.
• Become more outgoing with unfamiliar people, in the safe context of their setting.
• Show more confidence in new social situations.
• Play with one or more other children, extending and elaborating play ideas.
• Find solutions to conflicts and rivalries. For example, accepting that not everyone can be Spider-Man in the game, and suggesting other ideas.
• Increasingly follow rules, understanding why they are important.
• Remember rules without needing an adult to remind them.
• Develop appropriate ways of being assertive.
• Talk with others to solve conflicts.
• Talk about their feelings using words like ‘happy’, ‘sad’, ‘angry’ or ‘worried’.
• Understand gradually how others might be feeling.
• Be increasingly independent in meeting their own care needs, e.g. brushing teeth, using the toilet, washing and drying their hands thoroughly.
• Make healthy choices about food, drink, activity and toothbrushing.

Self-Regulation

• Show an understanding of their own feelings and those of others, and begin to regulate their behaviour accordingly.
• Set and work towards simple goals, being able to wait for what they want and control their immediate impulses when appropriate.
• Give focused attention to what the teacher says, responding appropriately even when engaged in activity, and show an ability to follow instructions involving several ideas or actions. Managing Self
• Be confident to try new activities and show independence, resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge;
• Explain the reasons for rules, know right from wrong and try to behave accordingly;
• Manage their own basic hygiene and personal needs, including dressing, going to the toilet, and understanding the importance of healthy food choices.

Building Relationships

• Work and play cooperatively and take turns with others;
• Form positive attachments to adults and friendships with peers
• Show sensitivity to their own and to others’ needs.

Reception

• See themselves as a valuable individual.
• Build constructive & respectful relationships
• Express their feelings and the feelings of others
• Show resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge.
• Identify and moderate their own feelings socially and emotionally.
• Be tolerant of others and think about the perspective of others.
• Manage their own needs – personal hygiene.
• Know and talk about the different factors that support their overall health and wellbeing: regular physical activity; healthy eating; toothbrushing; sensible amounts of ‘screen time’; having a good sleep routine and being a safe pedestrian

Relationships

Relevant ELG

ELG: Building relationships

• Work and play cooperatively and take turns with others
• Form positive attachments to adults and friendships with peers
• Show sensitivity to their own and to others’ needs

ELG: Listening, attention and understanding

• make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding
• hold conversation when engaged in back-and-forth exchanges with their teacher and peers

ELG: Speaking

• Express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using full sentences, including use of past, present and future tenses and making use of conjunctions, with modelling and support from their teacher.

KS1 Readiness

Objectives

• Knows right from wrong and can explain why it is important to have boundaries and routines
• Working and play co-operatively and taking turns with others
• Recognise and show sensitivity to their own and others needs
• Recognise similarities and differences between themselves and others

Living in the Wider World

Relevant ELG

ELG: People, culture and communities

• describe their immediate environment using knowledge from observation, discussion, stories, non-fiction texts and maps
• know some similarities and differences between different religious and cultural communities in this country, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class

ELG: Listening, attention and understanding

• make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding
• hold conversation when engaged in back-and-forth exchanges with their teacher and peers

ELG: Speaking

• Express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using full sentences, including use of past, present and future tenses and making use of conjunctions, with modelling and support from their teacher.

KS1 Readiness

Objectives

• Shows care and concern for living things.
• Name and describe people who might help us in the local community (police, fire service, doctors and teachers).

Health and Wellbeing

Relevant ELG

ELG: Self-regulation

• Show an understanding of their own feelings and those of others, and begin to regulate their behaviour accordingly
• set and work towards simple goals, being able to wait for what they want and control their immediate impulses when appropriate

ELG: Managing self

• be confident to try new activities and show independence, resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge
• explain the reasons for rules, know right from wrong and try to behave accordingly
• manage their own basic hygiene and personal needs, including dressing, going to the toilet and understanding the importance of healthy food choices.

ELG: Listening, attention and understanding

• make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding
• hold conversation when engaged in back-and-forth exchanges with their teacher and peers

ELG: Speaking

• Express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using full sentences, including use of past, present and future tenses and making use of conjunctions, with modelling and support from their teacher.

KS1 Readiness

Objectives

• Managing their own personal hygiene and basic needs
• Shows an understanding of their own feelings; and those of others
• Being to regulate their behaviour
• Shows an understanding of how to stay safe in a range of common situations.
• Recognise similarities and differences between themselves and others