Birth to 3 Progression Across the EYFS: All 7 Areas

Birth to 3 Progression Across the EYFS: All 7 Areas

A practical progression resource designed to help early years practitioners think more clearly about how learning may develop throughout the Birth to 3 period.

Rather than presenting development as a series of rigid age-related checkpoints, this resource offers a worked progression model across all seven areas of the EYFS, showing how experiences, skills and understanding can gradually become more complex over time.

Each area includes clear progression focuses alongside learning intentions, key progression, adult focus and what you might look for in children's learning.

Included are all 7 areas:

• Communication & Language
• Personal, Social & Emotional Development
• Physical Development
• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the World
• Expressive Arts & Design

This resource can be used to support curriculum thinking, provision planning, team discussion and professional reflection, helping practitioners consider what children are learning now and how their experiences might be developed next.

Ideal for nurseries, childminders, toddler rooms, school-based provision and EYFS leaders looking for a clear and manageable way to think about progression within Birth to 3.

Please note: this is a worked example designed to support professional thinking — not a checklist or assessment tracker. Children develop at different rates, revisit earlier learning and make progress across several aspects at the same time.

Read • Play • Create

Early Language • Literacy • Purposeful Provision