Goals for 2 year olds

By the time children turn 3 we aim for them to have achieved these goals

 

 

Communication and Language

Listening and attention

Show an interest in play with sounds, songs and rhymes

Understanding

To understand simple sentences that may contain instructions

Speaking

To use language to express feelings and share thoughts

 

 

Personal Social and Emotional

Making Relationships

To build relationships with specialpeople including their key worker

Sense of self

Show a sense of autonomy through asserting their own ideas, and making choices and decisions.

Understanding Emotions

To think about their own emotions and tobegin to respond to others 

 

 

Physical Development

Moving and Handling

To understand and choose different ways of moving

Health and self care

Feed themselves with a fork or spoon and drink competently out of a cup

 

 

Literacy

Reading

To have some favourite stories, rhymes, and songs

Writing

To Include mark making and early writing in their play.

 

 

Mathematics

Counting

To begin to say number names sometimes in order.

Shape

To enjoy jigsaws and start to successfully complete them

Measures

Explore differences in length weight and capacity

 

Understanding the World

People and communities

Have a sense of own immediate family,relations and pets

The World

Enjoy small world building on real life experiences

Technology

Seek to acquire basic skills in turning on and operating some digital equipment or mechanical toys 

 

Expressive arts and design

Creating with materials

Show an interest in play with sounds, songs and rhymes

Being imaginative and expressive

To begin to make believe and pretend

 

 

Goals for 3 year olds

By the time children turn 4 we aim for them to have achieved these goals

 

 

Communication and Language

Listening and attention

To listen to others in one-to-one or small groups

Understanding

To begin to understand why and how questions

Speaking

To use talk in pretending that objects stand for something else in play

 

Personal Social and Emotional

Making relationships

Enjoy playing alone, alongside and with others, inviting others to play and attempting to join others play.

Sense of self

Show confidence and self esteem in new situations

Understanding emotions

Understand that expectations vary depending on different social events

 

 

Physical Development

Moving and handling

To travel with confidence and skill in a range of ways

Health and self-care

To attend to toileting needs most of the time independently

 

 

Literacy

Reading

Recognise some familiar words such as own name

Writing

To give meaning to their drawings and paintings

 

 

Mathematics

Counting

To one-to-one count up to 5 objects

Shape

To name and identify some 2d and 3d shapes 

Spatial awareness

To respond to and use language of position and direction

 

Understanding the world

People and Communities

Recognise and talk about special times or events with friends or families

The world

Talk about why things happen and how things work

Technology

To know that information can be retrieved from a digital device  

 

Expressive arts and design

Creating with materials

Explore how sounds and movements can be changed

Being imaginative and expressive

Experiment and create movement in response to music

 

Goals for 4 year olds

By the time children transition into reception we aim for children to have achieved these goals

 

Communication and Language

Listening and attention

To indicate two-channelled attention. To be able to listen and do for a short time

Understanding

Understand a range of complex sentence structures including negatives, plurals and tense markers.

Speaking

Uses language to imagine and introduce a storyline or narrative into their play

 

 

Personal social and emotional

Making relationships

to be increasingly socially skilled and take steps to resolve conflicts with other children by negotiating and finding a compromise

Sense of self

Show confidence in choosing resources and perseverance in carrying out a chosen task

Understanding emotions

To understand their own and other people’s feelings

 

 

Physical development

Moving and handling

Handle tools, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control. Chose to move in a wide range of ways.

Health and self-care

To show an understanding for the need for safety

 

 

Literacy

Reading

Begin to develop phonological and phonemic awareness

Writing

Begin to write recognisable letters such as own name

 

 

Mathematics

Counting

To begin to match numeral to groups of objects from 0-10

Shape

To build models with increasing complexity

Measures

To order a sequence of daily events using language of time

 

Understanding of the world

People and Communities

Talk about past and present events in their own life

The world

To make observations of animals and plants, talk about change and why things happen

Technology

Complete a simple programme on an electronic device

 

Expressive arts and designs

Creating with materials

Develop their own ideas through experimentation with diverse materials. Begin to build a collection of songs and dances.

Being imaginative and expressive

Play cooperatively as part of a group to act out an imaginary idea or narrative

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