Our highly skilled staff create enabling environments to inspire learning and language, to meet the needs of all children and stimulate the children’s interests. We encourage them to explore, investigate and find out answers to their questions for themselves. We aim to scaffold and extend their knowledge and understanding, their vocabulary, ways of thinking and more. All our practitioners contribute to the wonderful environment and activities that your children are exposed to. We believe that children learn best when they are interested and excited. This is why we don’t have set topics throughout the year. We have identified themes linked to certain times in the year due to key events or seasons and these themes, alongside children’s current knowledge, act as a starting point for our preschool children’s learning. Their own knowledge and interests then drive new learning and opportunities.
Children are exposed to loose parts & real-life items during 'My own learning time (MOLT)', this encourages their imagination & helps them to develop into curious young people with amazing resilience and creativity. In our setting, you will see lots of natural resources such as sticks, stones, pebbles and wood. These natural, loose-part resources offer the children so many possibilities in their play. The balance between child-led and adult-led is carefully considered to enable other aspects of the curriculum to be delivered such as early literacy and math skills.
Reading plays a huge part of each day at preschool. Our children are exposed to 5 texts a day and all of our children engage in a daily guided reading session where they share copies of the same story until they become fluent in recalling the text. Our 5 A Day reading opportunities ensures that every child in our setting is exposed to a wide range of vocabulary and experiences the joy of reading and sharing stories.
