Curriculum: Lower School 

The academic aim of The English School Fahaheel is to ensure that each student progressing through the school attains his or her highest level of achievement and potential.
This is achieved through disciplined hard work and effort together with the support of an excellent teaching staff, to whom each student has access at every stage of his or her academic life at ESF. Students at The English School Fahaheel are taught the English National Curriculum.

The Kindergarten
The Kindergarten occupies spacious and stimulating teaching areas which are linked to large and well-resourced indoor and outdoor play areas. This area is equipped with large and safe play equipment.

The curriculum of Early Years education in ESF is planned so that independence is fostered and each child is encouraged to reach his or her full potential in the following areas:

Language and Literacy.
These outcomes cover the most important aspects of language development and provide the foundation for literacy. Children must be helped to acquired competence in English speaking, listening, reading and writing as soon as possible, making sure where appropriate of their developing understanding and skills in their own first language.

Mathematics.
These outcomes cover important mathematical understanding and provide the foundation for Numeracy.

Physical development.
These outcomes focus on children's developing physical control, mobility, awareness of space and manipulative skills in indoor and outdoor environments.

Personal and social development.
These areas of attention focus on children learning how to work, play and,most essentially, co-operate with other children and adults.

Knowledge and understanding of the world.
These areas focus on children's developing knowledge and understanding of their environment, other people and features of the world. They provide a foundation for historical, geographical, scientific and technological learning.

Creative development.
Creative development focuses on the development of children's imagination, their ability to communicate and to express their ideas and feelings in creative, and often extremely artistic ways.

Reception-aged children will encounter the English National Curriculum as and when appropriate to their respective stages of development.

Strong emphasis is placed upon each child's language development from registration with ESF so that fluency and understanding are targeted from this early stage.

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