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Impact on learners

Cambridge Early Years encourages a play-based, Responsible: They will begin to take some
child-centric approach to teaching and learning. It responsibility for their own care and for their own
helps young learners develop at their own pace, make thinking, learning and emotions. They will interact
their own choices, and build feelings of competence, positively with others and have positive attitudes to
emotional attachment and self-worth. It also gives people’s similarities and differences.
teachers flexibility, with the option to tailor the Reflective: They will reflect on their own and others’
curriculum to a child’s needs, capabilities and activities, saying what they liked and did not like,
interests. and what went well and not so well. They begin to
How will children benefit from Cambridge Early understand how reflection and feedback can help to
Years? develop new ideas.
The Cambridge Early Years curriculum helps children Innovative: They will ask questions to find out more
become: about the world around them, and try different
Confident: They will learn to express, clarify and strategies to overcome challenges and solve problems.
develop their own ideas and to respond constructively Engaged: They will develop their own knowledge,
to others’ ideas. understanding and skills through social interaction and
collaboration.
How will the programme prepare children for the next steps in their education?
Early years education should help children transition successfully to primary school, moving from informal, play-
based learning to teaching that is more formal. When children finish the Cambridge Early Years programme, they
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, children will be ready for a
seamless transition to Cambridge
Primary, and the rest of the
Cambridge Pathway.
 Route 2: The state and national
curriculum in India
Cambridge Early Years is aligned
with the National Education Policy
(NEP) 2020, so when children
complete the programme they can
also progress to the local state or
national curriculum in India.

To find out more about Cambridge Early Years
“Quality early childhood education visit
is the right of every child. Almost www.cambridgeinternational.org/earlyyears
85 per cent of the brain develops in Express your interest to become a Cambridge
Early Years Center.
the first five years, which means it
is this window of development that
needs to be nurtured and children
need their maximum stimulation
during these first five years.”

Dr Swati Popat Vats
President
Early Childhood Association of India

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