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Enabling children to learn about their community and the world around them is central to the EYFS and fundamental to meeting the early learning goals for ‘The world’, ‘Technology’, and ‘People and communities’.
Dr Julian Grenier, head teacher at Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre in London, and a national leader of education, explains, ‘A child’s understanding of the world should widen, rather like the ripples when you drop a stone in a pond. So, from the child’s immediate and important circle of family, close relations, and key person in nursery, through to wider relationships with staff and beginning to make friends, and then getting to know about the world outside their family and nursery through learning about people and communities.’
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