EYFS Learning Programmes
Supporting The EYFS Curriculum
A Fully Resourced EYFS Programme
Our fully‑resourced session‑a‑week EYFS programme includes early years as the foundation for whole‑school inclusion and continuity. Designed for all pre‑school settings, they support your delivery of the National EYFS Framework, particularly for Personal, Social, Emotional Development (PSED) and Understanding the World (UW).
Creative child‑led and teacher‑initiated activities with careful progression nurture children, conserve planning time and lay the foundations for mindfulness and self‑regulation.
Personal, Social, Emotional Development (PSED)
EYFS practitioners know that great PSED underpins children’s development and learning. Jigsaw nurtures children to be confident and happy, increasing their capacity to self-regulate, explore and learn.
Jigsaw PSED 3-5 provides opportunities for children to develop their emotional literacy and social skills and achieve the National EYFS Framework Early Learning Goals, particularly in PSED and Understanding the World.
Fully resourced weekly session plans for F1 and F2
Jigsaw Jenie and Jerrie Cat to aid learning and mindfulness
Mapped to the EYFS Framework and regularly updated
RE in EYFS
How do you teach RE to very young children?
Jigsaw RE provides EYFS practitioners with age-appropriate RE sessions, laying the foundations for more explicit learning about religions and worldviews later.
We believe EYFS RE is about:
developing respect and empathy for self and others
starting to understand some of the concepts, knowledge and human experiences that are central to religions and worldviews
developing each child’s own spiritual awareness
Outdoor Learning EYFS
Jigsaw Outdoors - Learning ABOUT nature IN nature and enhancing PSED
Knowing that connecting with nature and being outside promotes wellbeing, Jigsaw Outdoors offers you 6 lessons for each year group, specifically to be taught outdoors.
Jigsaw Outdoors is a stand-alone programme, but is also designed to enhance Jigsaw PSED, adding one fully-resourced lesson each half-term through the year.
12 beautifully-resourced lessons, six for F1 and six for F2
Mindful Movement (Calm Me) sessions
Original songs and body percussion
EYFS Games
Jigsaw Games
The lunchtime supervisors' best friend
Jigsaw Games aim to support lunch time supervisors, and children themselves, to encourage groups to play constructively together enjoying more traditional playground games. Some are re-imagined old games and some are new, dreamt up by the Jigsaw Team.
Play improves the cognitive, physical, social and emotional well-being of children and young people.
In addition, quality playtimes benefit children’s academic attainment and improve behaviour both in the playground and afterward in the classroom.
What's included?
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72 Games Cards, 12 on each of the 6 lanyards
- Each lanyard has 6 games for younger children and 6 games for older children, aligned to the Jigsaw PSED theme for that half-term
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Simple instructions
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3 short training videos (accessed on the Jigsaw Outdoors portal for schools who also have membership to the Jigsaw Outdoors Programme)
Constructive playtimes create more teaching time.
Introducing the Jigsaw Families Programme
"There is no such thing as a perfect parent… we all do the best we can."
The Jigsaw Families Programme, led by trained facilitators, empowers parents to be the best they can be, to manage behaviour in a mindful and positive way, and to fully engage with their children and the learning and school experience.
Family Pairs (one parent and one child) attend the 6 sessions
Delivered through original stories (one set specifically designed for EYFS children)
Children are given their own Jonty Junior to help take the learning home
