The Cambridge Early Years curriculum:
- follows a holistic approach that focuses on the whole child and connects their development with the world and people around them.
- is built around four key areas of early childhood development:
- Follows a holistic approach that focuses on the whole child and connects their development with the world and people around them.
- Is built around four key areas of early childhood development:
- Develops knowledge, understanding and skills through a spiral approach, by revisiting and engaging with topics and skills in more depth at each stage.
- Helps learners to meet internationally established milestones for early development. Although children develop at different rates, the curriculum provides a structure for teaching and learning that will help you to monitor and support each child’s progress.
- Supports a bilingual or multilingual approach for learners with a home language other than English, as well as those with different experiences of English
- Prepares learners to easily transition into Cambridge Primary, or the next stage in their education.
- Content is split into six curriculum areas to guide you and support progress.
Curriculum areas
Our six curriculum areas help you to guide and support progress across all areas of development.
Communication and literacy
Speaking, listening, reading and writing are crucial to children’s early development. Showing children the importance of language through fun activities and encouraging them to engage with a wide range of texts helps to ignite a lifelong curiosity for learning.
Creative expression
Creative expression allows children to communicate their ideas and develop their imagination through art and design, music, dance and drama. This important area brings together skills and cognitive processes from across the whole curriculum.
Mathematics
At an early age, it’s important to help children recognise how mathematics impacts everyday life. Through games and activities, we can introduce children to mathematical language, thinking and concepts that they will need when they start their primary education.
Physical development
Our curriculum encourages children to develop movement skills through play, helping them to develop positive attitudes towards exercise and laying the foundations for healthy, active lives.
Personal, social and emotional development
This area is central to children’s lives. It underpins their wellbeing and attainment in all other areas of their learning. This area helps them to develop social learning and friendships, regulate their emotional responses and respond to the needs of others, and develop self-esteem and confidence.
Understanding the world
This area of the curriculum encourages children’s natural curiosity as they explore the world around them. It lays foundations for a range of different subjects in primary education and beyond, including science, digital literacy, computing and humanities.
Cambridge Primary
By offering Cambridge Primary, you can provide a broad and balanced education for your learners, helping them to thrive throughout their schooling, work and life. With ten subjects to choose from, including English, mathematics and science, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to develop creativity, expression and wellbeing in a variety of ways.
The curriculum is flexible, so you can shape it around how you want your students to learn. Subjects can be offered in any combination and adapted to suit your context, culture and school ethos. Many of our schools offer Cambridge Primary alongside their national curriculum, or as part of a bilingual programme.
Primary Art and Design
Primary Computing
Primary Mathematics
Primary Digital Literacy
Primary English
Primary Physical Education
Primary Science
Primary Wellbeing
Primary English as a Second Language
Primary Music
Primary Global Perspectives
Cambridge Lower Secondary
By offering Cambridge Lower Secondary, you can provide a broad and balanced education for your learners, helping them to thrive throughout their schooling, work and life. With ten subjects to choose from, including English, mathematics and science, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to develop creativity, expression and wellbeing in a variety of ways.
You can shape the curriculum around how you want your students to learn. The curriculum is flexible, so you can offer any combination of the subjects available and adapt the content to suit your context, culture and ethos. Many of our schools offer Cambridge Lower Secondary alongside their national curriculum, or as part of a bilingual programme.
Lower Secondary Art and Design
Lower Secondary Computing
Lower Secondary Mathematics
Lower Secondary Digital Literacy
Lower Secondary English
Lower Secondary Physical Education
Lower Secondary Science
Lower Secondary Wellbeing
Lower Secondary Global Perspectives
Lower Secondary Music
Lower Secondary English as a Second Language
The DPS Advantage
Global Methods of Teaching
Crafted as per Cambridge standards, our classrooms are vibrant hubs where innovative teaching techniques meet global educational benchmarks, ensuring a well-rounded learning experience for every student.
Tech-Led Environment
Crafted as per Cambridge standards, our classrooms are vibrant hubs where innovative teaching techniques meet global educational benchmarks, ensuring a well-rounded learning experience for every student.
Collaborative Learning
Step into our classrooms where technology takes the lead. With state-of-the-art facilities and interactive tools, we create a tech-led environment that enhances learning, engages students, and prepares them for a digital future.
Tapestry Of Opportunities
We foster collaborative learning environments where students work together, share ideas, and learn from one another. Through teamwork, creativity thrives, and students develop essential social and problem-solving skills.