How activities and experiences for children and babies relate to formal curriculum frameworks?
In the UK, the activities that are planned for babies and children follow the curriculum guidelines of the Early Years Foundation Stage (2008). The children have general outcomes that they are expected to meet by the age of five, when they start formal schooling. The general outcomes are in six main curriculum areas: creative development; knowledge and understanding of the world; Physical Development; Personal, Social and Emotional Development; Communication, Language and Literacy; Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy.
