Alpha follows ‘The Early Years Foundation Stage

– Every Child Matters’ curriculum for children 0 to 5 years.

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Children start to learn about the world around them

from the moment they are born. 

Alpha helps children to continue to do this by

providing them with interesting activities that are

appropriate for their individual ages and stage of development.

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For children between the ages of 2½ and 5 years

Alpha provides a curriculum for the

foundation stage of education.

The curriculum divides children's learning

and development into six areas:

- personal, social and emotional development

- communication, language and literacy development

- problem solving, reasoning and numeracy

- knowledge and understanding of the world

- physical development, and

- creative development.

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Early learning goals are set for each area.

These goals state what it is expected that children

will know and be able to do by the end of the

reception year of their education.

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Play helps young children to learn and develop through

doing and talking, which research has shown to be the

means by which young children think. 

For each early learning goal, the curriculum sets out

stepping stones (the stages through which children

are likely to pass as they work to achieve the goal). 

Alpha uses the stepping stones to help trace each

child's progress, then to plan and provide a range of

play activities that help children make progress

in each of the learning and development areas.

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