Nursery (2 year-olds)

From each child’s own starting points, children will make good progress whilst in our Nursery and Reception classes in all areas of development, outlined in the Statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage, so that they are well prepared for the transition into Year 1. Our key focus is to ensure that all children develop excellent learning behaviours for life and display characteristics of effective learning.

Children will become ‘Happy Chatters’ and ‘Fantastic Friends’. ‘Energetic Edmondsley Caterpillars’ will grow into ‘Energetic Edmondsley Butterflies’. Children will also be ‘Brilliant Bookworms’, ‘Wow Writers’, ‘Magnificent Mathematicians’, Edmondsley Explorers and ‘Creative Creatures’. Children will achieve this after having had the opportunities to Play and Explore through Active Learning and Creating and Thinking Critically.

Curriculum Grids 2025 – 26

Beehive Curriculum Grid – Summer 2
Beehive Curriculum Grid – Summer 1
Caterpillar Curriculum Grid – Autumn 1
Caterpillar Curriculum Grid – Autumn 2
Caterpillar Curriculum Grid – Spring 1

We are Happy Chatters

2 year-old Happy Chatters..

• Provides a verbal commentary during play 
• Usually intelligible to familiar carers 
• Asks questions – Who? What? 
• Uses 200 or more recognisable words but speech shows numerous immaturities of sentence structure 
• Uses ‘I’ ‘me’ and ‘You’ 
• Understands action words “Which one is eating?” 
• Recites a few nursery rhymes 

We are Fantastic Friends

2 year-old Fantastic Friends…

• Requires verbal prompts in order to switch attention to looking and listening if engrossed in play. 
• Provides a running commentary during play – to self or others.  
• Watches other children play with interest, occasionally joining in for a few minutes. More sustained role play.  
• Emotionally still very dependent on adult and requires reassurance in unfamiliar situation. 

We are Energetic Bumblebees

2 year-old Energetic Bumblebees…

• Pushes and pulls large toys around but may have difficulty in steering around obstacles. 
• Walks upstairs confidently and  
• downstairs holding a rail, two feet to a step 
• Runs around 
• Jumps with 2 feet together 
• Throws and kicks a large ball 
• Builds a tower of seven plus cubes 
• Holds pencil in preferred hand with tripod grasp 
• Imitates horizontal line and circle and usually T and V 
• Mostly uses preferred hand 
• Turns pages of a book singly