Our aim is to provide a secure and nurturing environment which allows all children to reach their full potential.
A Purpose-Built Learning Environment
Our youngest students have their own dedicated Early Years Centre to provide your child with the finest surroundings for their first school experience. Our commitment at NAS Dubai is to create and maintain a safe, happy and child-centred environment in which children are inspired to become purposeful, life-long learners.
Early Years Foundation Stage
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets standards for the learning, development and care of children up to age five. It prepares them for Primary school, developing their knowledge and skills.
In following the EYFS framework, which is statutory in England for all Ofsted registered settings, we adopt a curriculum that ensures children have the best possible start to their schooling by:
- Setting high standards for the learning, development and care of our children, ensuring that every child makes progress and that no child gets left behind.
- Providing for equality of opportunity, ensuring that every child is included and not disadvantaged because of ethnicity, culture or religion, home language, family background, learning difficulties or disabilities, gender or ability.
- Creating a partnership between parents and educators in which regular communication and mutual support is fundamental.
- Laying a secure foundation for future learning through learning and development that is planned around the individual needs and interests of the child, and informed by the use of ongoing observational assessment.
Play to Learn - Learn to Play
Children in the EYFS learn by playing and exploring, being active and using creative and critical thinking. For your child play is purposeful, engaging and fun. It provides a wonderful way for them to learn.
To focus their progress, our highly trained teachers engage them in activities shaped by seven Areas of Learning and Development. We use these interconnected areas to promote children’s individual interests and unique learning needs.
Prime areas
The programme is comprised of seven areas of learning with a basis in three Prime Areas:
- Communication and language
- Physical development
- Personal, social and emotional development
Specific areas
The Prime Areas underpin learning in all other areas and helps children to develop skills in the following four Specific areas:
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the world
- Expressive arts and design
Children work towards the Early Learning Goals in the seven areas of learning whilst being closely supported and challenged along the way.
A Foundation for Future Success
We recognise that, to achieve world-class results later in their Secondary education, it is essential that the foundations for learning in the Early Years and Primary are secure and that personal progression is consistently monitored.
Our aim is that upon leaving Early Years, our youngest NAS Dubai students have a strong sense of self, feel positive about their abilities as a learner, have formed constructive relationships and are confident communicators.
