Children learn best when they are actively engaged in meaningful experiences. Through a balance of child-initiated play, adults modelling, adult-guided learning and purposeful teaching, our practitioners create opportunities for children to explore, investigate, create and solve problems.

Our indoor and outdoor learning environments are carefully designed to encourage curiosity, creativity, communication, collaboration and independence. Skilled practitioners support children to express their ideas, build positive relationships, develop critical thinking skills and grow in confidence and resilience through high-quality interactions and responsive teaching.

Ongoing observation and assessment enable us to understand each child's strengths, interests and next steps, ensuring learning is personalised, purposeful and appropriately challenging. Working closely with families, we create a strong foundation for learning that promotes wellbeing, nurtures a sense of belonging and prepares children for future success.

By the end of FS2, children leave the Foundation Stage as happy, healthy and confident learners who are culturally aware, socially responsible and well prepared for a successful transition into Key Stage 1 and beyond.

The Early Years Foundation Stage consists of two year groups: FS1 and FS2.

The EYFS is built upon four overarching principles:

• Every child is a unique child who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.
• Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships.
• Children thrive in enabling environments where practitioners respond to their individual interests and needs, helping them to build their learning over time through strong partnerships with parents and carers.
• Children develop and learn at different rates, and every child is supported to reach their full potential.

Aligned with the vision of the Dubai Child, we nurture children who are curious, creative, confident communicators and responsible members of their community, with a strong sense of identity, culture and belonging.

The EYFS curriculum is organised into seven areas of learning and development, all of which are equally important and interconnected.

Prime Areas

• Communication and Language
• Physical Development
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development

These areas provide the foundations for children's wellbeing, relationships and future learning.

Specific Areas

• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the World
• Expressive Arts and Design

Arabic in FS2

Arabic language learning is an important part of our Early Years curriculum. Through engaging lessons, stories, rhymes and meaningful interactions, children develop their communication and language skills, broaden their vocabulary and build confidence in listening to and using Arabic. In FS2, children are also introduced to the foundations of literacy through the development of phonological awareness, letter recognition, early reading and early writing skills. These experiences support children’s understanding of themselves and the world around them, helping to foster a strong sense of identity, culture and belonging, alongside an appreciation of Emirati culture, UAE values and local heritage.