Curriculum

We believe that children learn best by actively pursuing their interests and ideas through exploratory play, supported by staff who extend their learning, facilitating the child’s process of creating and developing theories about the world.

Children’s personal, social and emotional development is central to their learning, and we support this through the development of positive and caring relationships. Each child has a key person who completes their Learning Journey through the online Tapestry programme.

We encourage the development of self-confidence and self-awareness, and children become independent learners by choosing resources and accessing all areas of the pre-school environment. We support children in managing feelings and behaviour through giving them the vocabulary to name a range of emotions and use a conflict resolution approach, where we help children learn how to find solutions to their conflicts and help support how they manage the conflict next time.

Respect for children’s rights runs through our curriculum. We teach children about their rights and their responsibilities to themselves, to others and to the world around them and this threads through our work. It helps develop children’s acceptance of difference and diversity and supports the development of a strong moral compass. It is evident in interactions between staff and children, where staff listen to children and children show respect for each other and for adults.

We believe in child centred learning and plan for a balance of child initiated and adult led learning.

We use the Birth to Five curriculum and the Early Years Foundation Stage statutory framework which sets out what a child is expected to learn from birth to five years.

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