Early Years Learning at BISB
During the Early Years at British International School of Boston, our teachers focus on developing our young students’ love for learning, encouraging them to be active participants in their learning journey. Understanding that each young student has their own unique set of needs, abilities, and talents, we especially help your child build their critical thinking, creativity, and interpersonal skills throughout our program.
As a private, independent school, we’re proud to follow the British “Early Years Foundation Stage” (EYFS) curriculum that’s part of the National Curriculum of England, as well as the International Early Years Curriculum (IEYC).
An Overview of Our Early Years Curricula
The overarching structure of British International School of Boston’s program for these age groups is determined by the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum, which includes the following seven areas of focus:
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Communication and Language
- Physical Development
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the World
- Expressive Arts and Design
We complement these seven areas of focus with exciting experiences that follow themes and topics of learning under the Early Years Curriculum. For example, some of the IEYC’s themes include "People Who Help Us," "Animals," or "Changes and Growing." The IEYC has been designed with an awareness of children's brain development and helps your child make connections between areas of their learning, like early literacy and numeracy skills, as they discover the world.
Below, we’ve outlined our curriculum guides for Toddlers, Nursery, and Prekindergarten/Reception stages. For an in-depth look, we encourage you to also download our Curriculum Guide PDF at the bottom of this page.
Our Toddler Curriculum Guide
- Personal, Social, and Emotional Learning
- Making relationships
- Self-confidence and self-awareness
- Managing feelings and behavior
- Communication and Language
- Listening and attention
- Understanding
- Speaking
- Physical
- Moving and handling
- Health and self-care
- Literacy
- Notice some print and letters
- Add marks with meaning
- Mathematics
- Numbers
- Numerical patterns
- Understanding of the World
- People, culture, and communities
- The World
- Technology
- Expressive Arts
- Exploring and using different instruments and arts materials
- International Primary Curriculum
- Units: Ourselves; People Who Help Us; Animals; Shapes, Colors, Textures; Transportation; Gardening and Growing; Fantastic Fall Celebrations; Sky and Space; Weather and Environment; Fairy Tales; and Superheroes.
Nursery (Preschool) Curriculum Guide
- Personal, Social, and Emotional Learning
- Develop skills to resolve conflict
- Grow more confident and independent
- Understand and follow rules
- Be a member of a community
- Communication and Language
- Listening and attention
- Use better vocabulary and use longer sentences
- Understand two-part questions and instructions
- Physical
- Moving and handling
- Literacy
- Reading
- Writing
- Mathematics
- Numbers and shapes
- Understanding of the World
- Expressive Arts
- Modern Foreign Language: French and Spanish
Our Reception (Pre-K) Curriculum Guide
- Personal, Social, and Emotional Learning
- Making Relationships
- Self-confidence and Self-awareness
- Managing Feelings and Behavior
- Communication and Language
- Listening and attention
- Understanding
- Speaking
- Physical
- Moving and Handling
- Health and Self Care
- Literacy
- Reading
- Writing
- Mathematics
- Numbers
- Numerical patterns
- Understanding of the World
- People and Communities
- The World
- Technology
- Expressive Arts
- Media and Materials
- Being Imaginative
- Modern Foreign Language: French and Spanish
- International Primary Curriculum
- Units: All About Me (People Who Help Us); Shopping; Up and Away (Space); Animals; Sand and Water (Under the Sea); Changes and Growing
