The Curriculum and Extra Activities

We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum, which is broken down into three prime areas and four specific areas of development. These are:-
PRIME AREAS

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

SPECIFIC AREAS

• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the World
• Expressive Arts and Design

We follow a learning through play approach with child and adult led activities using a very wide range of toys and resources.

For further information about play based learning, please use the links below:
https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/2018-12/UNICEF-Lego-Foundation-Learning-through-Play.pdf
http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/parents/

In addition we

• monitor the childrens speech and language development to assess whether the child is at the correct speech and language level for his/her age.
• offer 6 week Forest School programme for school leaving children (more details in our prospectus)
• encourage phonics in preparation for early ready skills.
• offer home learning sheets and maths bags to do at home with your child to aid learning.
• arrange visits from outside companies (mobile farm, scientist, story telling), and professionals ie. Police, firefighters