Curriculum

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Play is vital for children and is the medium through which they learn and develop.

Children’s early learning is motivated by their enquiring minds, and the pleasure they gain from challenging experiences. The Early Years Foundation Stage highlights playing and exploring, active learning, plus creating and thinking critically as the key characteristics of effective learning that underpin all areas of learning and development.

We aim to provide for the characteristics of effective learning by observing each child’s interests and how they like to learn and being clear about what we can do and provide in order to support each child to remain an effective and motivated learner.

Activities are carefully differentiated to ensure that all children can build on their existing knowledge and develop their skills holistically. We place particular value on promoting the three prime areas of learning: personal, social and emotional development; communication and language and physical development as these are vital for building children’s capacity to develop and learn effectively, form successful relationships, become ready for school and thrive.

We use high quality books as the basis of our curriculum to promote a language rich environment as oral language skills provide a critical foundation for children’s holistic development and brain function.