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  Linking an Arts Programme with Stepping Stones to Early Learning Goals.
   
  Creativity can be used to support the Foundation Stage curriculum across all of the six goals.
   
 
  • All the art forms can be used to work on Personal, Social & Emotional Development. Children become more confident through these activities, show appropriate self-respect, are able to establish effective relationships with each other and adults, initiate ideas, work independently and as part of a group….
  • Music/Drama/Dance/Visual: can be used to work on Communications, Language & Literacy. Children listen and respond to stories, make up their own stories and take part in role play with confidence, recognise familiar words, associate sounds with patterns in rhymes, with syllables, and with words and letters, use a growing vocabulary with increasing fluency to express thoughts and convey meaning to the listener, suggest new words and verses to different action songs, create rhymes when making up songs…
  • Music/Drama/Dance/Visual/Making/Digital Photography can be used to work on Mathematical Development. Children recreate patterns, recognise and use numbers through practical activities they understand and record numbers and use mathematical language to describe position and size...
  • Music/Drama/Dance/Visual/Making/Digital Photography: can be used to work on Knowledge & Understanding of the World. Children can work creatively around the subjects of where they live, their families, past and present events in their own lives; explore and recognise similarities, explore different cultures, talk about their observations and explore equipment....
  • Dance/Drama/Making/Music: can be used to work on Physical Development. Children can move confidently and imaginatively with increasing control and co-ordination, handle appropriate tools safely, develop an increasing awareness of space and others; contribute to body awareness and physical development and control, handling percussion instruments contributes significantly to small motor skills….
   
  … and of course ALL of the art forms are central to encouraging Creative Development!
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