Our Nursery Curriculum

The Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum Framework forms the basis of our provision.

Using the Characteristics of Effective Learning 3 areas …

• Play and Exploring
• Active Learning
• Creating and Thinking Critically

…the Nursery team aim to create a fun and stimulating environment where each child’s learning and development is supported effectively.

We recognise the fundamental role of play and multi-sensory exploration in children’s learning and offer children a range of stimuli, both indoors and out, to promote curiosity and engagement.

Through observation of children’s interests and developmental stages and discussion with families, experiences are planned across the seven areas of learning and development-

Prime Areas

• Personal, Social and Emotional
• Communication and Language
• Physical

Specific Areas

• Literacy
• Maths
• Understanding the World
• Expressive arts and design

We aim to help children achieve this by:

•  Explore and make sense of the world
• Practice new ideas and skills
• Learn how to express and control feelings
• Understand the need for rules
• Be alone and co-operate with others
• Take risks and make mistakes
• Think creatively and imaginatively
• Communicates with other as they communicate and solve problems

Children learn when they are:

• Given appropriate responsibility
• Allowed to make errors, decision and choices
• Respected as autonomous and competent learners
• Actively doing rather than being told
• Supported and trusted by a knowledgeable and trusted adult

Daily Routine

Our simple daily routine allows children maximum opportunities to develop their understanding, to practise skills and to develop relationships within a consistent environment that supports security and promotes confidence.

The play space, both indoors and outside, is arranged in areas with appropriate resources stored nearby. These areas are reviewed through the year but generally include features of basic provision such as

• Water
• Sand
• Construction—large and small
• Small world
• Physical—fine and gross
• Creative
• Malleable—sensory
• Books
• Music and Sound
• Mark-making
• Role Play
• ICT
• Mud kitchen

We aim to have a wide variety of activities available for your child when they spend time with us at Nursery.

The Session

We organise our sessions so that the children can choose from, and work at, a range of activities and, in doing so, build up their ability to select and work through a task to its completion. The children are also helped and encouraged to take part in adult-led small and large group activities.

Swallow's timeline of their day at Fledglings