Cambridge Early Years Foundation Stage (Play, Nursery and Reception)
Cambridge Early Years is designed for learners aged 3 to 6 years, helping your child achieve key early milestones and thrive both in and outside of school.
Unique Like Your Child, Cambridge Early Years
Our early years program offers everything a school or nursery needs to provide a high-quality education for young learners. It is based on the latest educational thinking and research and is flexible enough to adapt to your child’s needs. The program encourages children to act independently, make their own choices, and develop confidence and self-worth.
A Holistic Curriculum
Our holistic curriculum focuses on the whole child, connecting their development with the world and people around them. It also supports a bilingual or multilingual approach for learners with a home language other than English.
Learning Through Play
Play-based learning, which encourages curiosity and social interaction, is at the heart of our early years approach. It lays the foundation for lifelong learning and promotes high levels of wellbeing and engagement. By learning through play, your child is placed at the center of their education, allowing them to develop at their own pace.
A Holistic, Child-Focused Approach
Our curriculum supports all aspects of your child’s development. While we organize our content into six learning areas, they are interconnected and taught together as children play and explore the world around them.

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Speaking, listening, reading, and writing are crucial to children’s early development. Engaging children in fun activities and exposing them to a wide range of texts emphasize the importance of language and ignite a lifelong curiosity for learning.
This area is central to children’s lives, underpinning their wellbeing and success in all other learning areas. It helps them develop social skills and friendships, regulate their emotions, respond to the needs of others, and build self-esteem and confidence.
Introducing children to mathematical concepts at an early age helps them understand how math impacts everyday life. Through games and activities, we familiarize children with mathematical language, thinking, and concepts necessary for primary education.
Creative expression enables children to communicate their ideas and develop their imagination through art and design. This essential curriculum area integrates skills and cognitive processes from across the entire curriculum.
Our curriculum promotes the development of movement skills through play, fostering positive attitudes towards exercise and laying the foundation for healthy, active lives.
Encouraging children’s natural curiosity is essential for equipping them to reflect, question, explore, and interact with their surroundings. This area of the curriculum lays the foundation for various subjects in primary education and beyond, including science, digital literacy, computing, and humanities.
Assessing your child’s progress against key milestones is a crucial aspect of their early years education, helping teachers determine the best ways to support your child. Our approach centers around continuous formative assessment, including observations of children in the learning environment and evidence gathered during learning activities.
Cambridge Early Years prepares your child for the transition to primary school, easing their shift from play-based learning to more formal education. Upon completing our early years program, your child will be ready for the next stage of their educational journey, whether they continue with Cambridge Primary or another program.