Parent Corner

Cambridge Early Years is an exciting educational journey that helps children aged 2.6 to 4.6 develop the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to make the best possible start in life.

It offers a holistic curriculum with engaging classroom resources and a range of assessment approaches to measure your child’s progress throughout their early education.

Cambridge Early Years helps your child develop at their own pace, make their own choices, and build feelings of competence, emotional attachment and self-worth.

The programme encourages a play-based, child-centric approach to teaching and learning that is designed to meet the needs of young learners in India, and to be used by a wide range of early years centres.

Cambridge Early Years has been developed by Cambridge International and Cambridge University Press, both part of the world-renowned University of Cambridge.

Like your child, our early years programme is unique. We believe education is most powerful when curriculum, resources, assessment, and teaching and learning are aligned. That’s why Cambridge Early Years combines all these elements to provide centres with a complete and holistic programme designed around the needs of the child. This aligned approach helps Cambridge Early Years learners develop the skills, understanding and confidence they need to transition successfully to primary school.

The Cambridge Early Years curriculum supports physical, cognitive, communicative, social and emotional aspects of development. The content is segregated between six learning areas which are independent and can be taught together.

Communication, Language & Literacy
Your child will be encouraged to develop their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. Teaching and learning throughout the programme will be in English. Your child’s home language will also be recognised and celebrated.

Creative Expression
Your child will have the chance to express his/her ideas in a creative way and build on their experiences, both in and outside the programme, through art, design, music, dance and drama.

Mathematics
Your child will begin to discover mathematical thinking and language through engaging activities that link to their experiences in other curriculum areas and outside of school.

Personal, Social & Emotional Development
Your child will develop social learning and friendships, learn to regulate emotional responses, and be able to build self-esteem and confidence.

Physical Development
Your child will develop different types of movement skills through play-based activities, and build the foundation for a healthy and active lifestyle.

Understanding The World
Your child’s natural curiosity will be encouraged as they learn to reflect, question, explore and interact with the world around them.

The Cambridge Early Years curriculum will help children become:

Confident
They will learn to express, clarify and develop their own ideas and respond constructively to others’ ideas.

Responsible
They will begin to take responsibility towards self-care, individual thinking, learning and managing their emotions. They will interact positively with others and have positive attitude to people’s similarities and differences.

Reflective
They will reflect on their own and others’ activities, saying what they like and did not, and what went well and not so well. They begin to understand how reflection and feedback can help to develop new ideas.

Innovative
They will ask questions to explore more about the world around them, and try different strategies to overcome challenges and solve problems.

Engaged
They will develop their own knowledge, understanding, and skills through social interaction and collaboration.

Cambridge Early Years will prepare your child for the transition to primary school, helping them move from play-based learning to teaching that is more formal. When they finish the programme, your child will be prepared for their next step in education following either of these two routes:

Route 1: An international education with the Cambridge Pathway
After finishing Cambridge Early Years, your child will be ready for a seamless transition to Cambridge Primary, and the rest of the Cambridge Pathway.

Route 2: State and national curriculum in India
Cambridge Early Years is aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, so when your child completes the programme they can also progress to the local state or national curriculum in India.