Curriculum

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Curriculum
At the group we can offer a wide range of activities to support our aim of "Learning through Play". The Curriculum is designed to promote learning and to provide opportunities to reach the Early Learning Goals in the Foundation Stage of Education.  Children at a young age learn through their own enjoyment of an experience or activity.  By providing a wide variety of activities both familiar and unfamiliar we allow the children to make their own choices and thus learn at their own individual pace.  As we get to know each child we can stimulate their interest and enjoyment by extending and supporting their play, thus facilitating learning.


 

Activities on offer include: role play, painting, sticking, crayoning, sand and water play, craft, playdough, cutting, home corner, dressing up, numbers, book corner, music and singing, cookery, wheeled toys, gardening and a nature area.  

Children can be as 'messy' as they choose, but we encourage them to participate in the clearing away, learning to take responsibility for their actions and take care for their surroundings.

We have a written curriculum with Long Term, Medium Term and Session Plans.

The activities at Pre-School cover the six areas of Early Years Curriculum: personal, social and emotional development, communication, language and literacy, mathematics, creative, physical, knowledge and understanding of the world.  

The curriculum is designed to support the areas of learning which are the essential basis for later studies in school   At Pre-School children will have the opportunity, through games, activities, stories, songs and play to (among many other things);

• Use language to communicate with adults and other children
• Listen and respond as part of a group
• Recognise the use of print to carry information, stories and ideas
• Understand simple ideas of length, weight and volume
• Recognise shapes and colours
• Create and recognise patterns and sequences
• Have the opportunity to be creative
• Develop their own independence
• Develop body strength and co-ordination
• Learn social skills, sharing taking turns and operating as part of a group
• Enjoy learning and develop their interests

Craft
We regularly provide the children with the materials to do a craft activity. We allow them to express their own creativity, not those of the adults.  The pleasure and learning comes from the activity itself, choosing cutting and gluing (using manipulation and fine motor movement) rather than the finished product.  It's the doing that counts!