The Children’s Day.
We aim for a home from home environment. A place to feel secure and make new friends. Our learning through play ethos is guided by the Early Years Foundation Stage. See Development Matters.
The EYFS Development Matters 2021 curriculum 'consists of everything you want children to experience, learn and be able to do'. More especially 'the EYFS is about how children learn, as well as what they learn. Children need opportunities to develop their own play and independent exploration. This is enjoyable and motivating. They also need adults to ‘scaffold’ their learning by giving them just enough help to achieve something they could not do independently. Helping children to think, discuss and plan ahead is important, like gathering the materials they need to make a den before they start building. These are ways of helping children to develop the characteristics of effective learning' (Development Matters 2021).
We organise time, routines and space around the children's interests. Explore new ideas and resources. Enable Children to invent their own play and to support and extend their learning and language skills.
We establish routines centred around the children's individual and group requirements. A cycle of meals, naps, free/adult supported play and planned activities.
Some of our activities and resources can be seen on the Gallery page and include...
Literacy activities such as letters and sounds, story time, songs and rhymes and lots of conversation. We have books for all ages and stages.
Numeracy activities such as puzzles, bricks and blocks, compare bears and animals, numicon, threading, and other number, shape and measure activities.
Art and design includes mark making, paint, pens, pencils, cutting and sticking, dough and making things with the things we find in nature on our welly walks.
Music and movement, songs, rhymes and musical instruments. Yoga and dance.
Role play and small worlds including a home corner with a cooker and microwave. A doll’s houses with furniture and several families. A castle with knights. Pirates and wooden ships. Small world animals and dinosaurs. All kinds and sizes of wheeled toys. Dressing up. A Brio train set with lots of bridges and trains. A garage and cars of all shapes and sizes. Trucks and diggers. We also have lots of Duplo people, animals and vehicles. A parachute, tents and tunnels. We have dolls representing people from all around the world.
We are home to several venerable teddy bears and Expressions Dolls and babies.
Open ended play with Grimm rainbows and Elements and a good selection of Grapat Mandala Pieces.
Construction: including all sizes of bricks and blocks, both stacking and connecting. This includes wooden blocks, Duplo and Mega blocs. We also have a selection of wooden sensory blocks.
Understanding the world includes welly walks. At circle time we complete the weather chart and days of the week. Children like to cook, bake bread and learn about healthy food.
Children mostly bring packed lunches and other meals from home. I always provide healthy snacks and drinks.
In the enclosed rear garden there are large wheeled toys, amud kitchen, a small play house and a platform area with a slide, as well as sand and water and all manner of messy play. The decking area is often used for picnics, to use as a stage, a boat or a den.
There is an enclosed playing field nearby with a large climbing frame, climbing wall, swings, balances and a full size football pitch. We enjoy 'welly walks' in and around Musbury village, an area of 'outstanding natural beauty'.
I will keep record of child’s interests and achievements. This is shared with the child's parents through Tapestry, discussions, emails and termly reports. It is also used to inform my plans for your child’s learning and development.
Contact
[email protected]
Tel. 01297 552011
See
Development Matters Non-statutory curriculum guidance for the early years foundation stage. July 2021
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/development-matters--2
Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework 2021
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/974907/EYFS_framework_-_March_2021.pdf
Birth to Five Matters
https://www.birthto5matters.org.uk/
https://foundationyears.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/What-to-expect-in-the-EYFS-complete-FINAL-16.09-compressed.pdf?utm_source=Foundation+Years&utm_campaign=63698a82dd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_21_05_01_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8f9a6de061-63698a82dd-321583245&mc_cid=63698a82dd&mc_eid=813fd55dfb
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