Introducing our new 'activity pack' format for EYFS materials

We are excited to launch our new EYFS Friendship and bullying activity pack for reception age children (4-5 years).

This is our first ever pack for EYFS, developed to support learning in the reception classroom in the prime area of personal, social and emotional development (PSED) as part of the Early Years Foundation Stage framework.

Given the intended age group for these materials, we’ve structured this activity pack slightly differently to our materials for other key stages.

You’ll find the teacher guidance at the beginning of the activity pack. And three distinct sections, each covering one of the three learning outcomes:

• Learning outcome 1: Children will be able to work and play cooperatively with peers
• Learning outcome 2: Children will be able to demonstrate the skills to form friendships with peers
• Learning outcome 3: Children will be able to demonstrate how to find fair or satisfying solutions to conflict

These learning outcomes are structured to help children meet the overarching learning objective:

To learn about making good friendships, how to cooperate and how to resolve conflict

And instead of the usual timed ‘Baseline Assessment’ ‘Core activities’ and ‘Endpoint assessment’ sections, we've included a series of ‘Discussion prompts’, ‘Teacher-led Activities’, and ‘Child-led activities’, along with suggestions for ‘Continuous provision and routines’ and ‘Assessment opportunities’.

This alternative structure will give you the flexibility to pick and mix activities and get creative — to best fit the needs of your cohort and classroom. And the activities are designed to be easy to set up, using only those resources that can be found in most reception classrooms.

This is new territory for us, so we’d appreciate any feedback you have on both the general structure and specific activities. Feel free to drop us an email.