At Playdays Early Years and Longlevens Infant School, we place great value on the development of children as individuals and providing them with the skills, knowledge and understanding they need to prepare them for the challenges in Key Stage One and beyond. We aim to foster a love of learning through an engaging, dynamic and purposeful curriculum, that is built around the needs of our children. Our curriculum follows the EYFS framework 2024 and has been designed with the  interests and cultural capital of our children in mind. Our aim in the EYFS is to build strong foundations, rooted in academic success, as well as developing independent and resilient learners who have great language skills, so that our pupils go on to be active citizens of society and happy, inquisitive life-long learners. Our mantra is that ‘Reading is the Gateway to all Learning’ and we ensure that this drives all areas of the curriculum. We want children to gain a passion for reading and to leave our school having had an exposure to a wide variety of quality texts, authors and reading opportunities.