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Encouraging collaboration, curiosity and making decisions through the freedom to choose. Your child will be supported to learn how to collaborate with others through play. We believe making strong relationships with others is such a valuable life skill and is vital for preparation for primary school.
We operate a 'free flow' system, where children are able to independently choose between indoor and outdoor activities. The outdoors is an extension of the indoor environment and a very important area for risk and challenge. Allowing children to run, jump, climb, to use crates and other open-ended resources to build with, is all part of outdoor play.
Our Setting is inspired by various approaches to early education and therefore we celebrate a blended learning approach. Including; Reggio - Originated in Italy is a holistic education based on the belief that your child is unique and will express this interest in numerous ways. Reggio revolves around the child’s senses relying on sight, sound, touch and smell.
Curiosity approach - this approach aims to create thinkers and doers by putting the child at the centre of their own learning. We use everyday items around the setting to encourage children’s natural curiosity and eagerness to explore and create.
In the Moment Planning - Anna Ephgrave and her ‘In the Moment’ approach to teaching and learning is an in the moment approach has been carefully researched and embedded into our practice for several years, this style of planning supports the EYFS 2021 cycle of observation, assessment & planning, however it is carried out on a moment-by-moment basis. Our resources and room layout enables children to have more choice during play, giving the children a more enabling environment and allowing them to explore and investigate through play.
High levels of involvement occur most when children are able to pursue their own interests in an enabling environment, supported by skilled staff. Planning in the moment helps to make this possible.
Our staff are able to facilitate the children’s learning. They know the children well and have a sound knowledge of child development. The staff are able to enhance and extend the children’s learning at an appropriate level.
Our Outdoor Area is used for learning and play every day and it is an environment rich in learning opportunities from climbing equipment that promotes physical development to small dens for hiding and reading.
Our planting – Both at our allotment and at the Setting we enjoy planting and growing vegetables & fruit together. Our practitioners guide the children and encourage them to nurture the plants. These can then be used for snack time or cooking activities.
Our sandpit is everyone’s favourite place outside and our skilled staff use it as the back drop to all sorts of activities such as pirate games and treasure hunts to mark making and beach fun! Shaded by a large gazebo, in the summer this area is a cool haven from the warm sun. In winter, when dressed appropriately, the children have great fun, moulding the wet sand into dramatic castles and huge volcanoes!.
Our mud kitchen is built at a child friendly height with large wooden work top areas for the children to mix and stir their culinary delights. With a wide range of utensils, pots and pans, the children can create mud pies, dirt soup and a natural milkshake!
Our Grave Pit is a great outdoor imaginative play area for the children to enjoy! It inspires creativity and storytelling with the children enjoying digging, scooping, transferring, climbing the large ‘mountains’ aka logs and rocks, building roads and gong on journeys.
Our indoor environment has a homely atmosphere with the activities offered reflecting the interests and ideas of our children whilst supporting their social, emotional, physical, creative, and cognitive development needs. The open layout of our playroom encourages the children to move freely both indoors and outdoors swell as providing opportunities for role-play, construction, small world play, book sharing, investigations, mark-making, sand and water play, tactile/sensory exploration and arts and crafts.
Our large range of resources and equipment are clearly labelled and are easily accessible to the children. They are picked specifically for their ability to provide variety and promote extended play. We encourage the children to independently select their own activities, taking control of their individual learning. We have a number of well-defined, inviting and colourful areas providing cross-curricular opportunities for learning. These distinct areas help to promote concentration and co-operation.
Our maths area is not just about counting. This area is set up to support and encourage problem solving, measuring, comparisons, grouping and basic addition and subtraction. It is rich in numbers and thought provoking activities.
Our book corner is stocked with a wide variety of literary resources. We have numerous copies of early years classics and social stories. The sofa and children size chairs provide a relaxing environment where the children can enjoy books together, independently or as part of large group. Our library resources don’t stop at familiar stories but extend to books in a number of different languages, Braille and stories with props to bring them alive.
Our construction area has seen Eiffel Tower replicas, Windsor Castle inspired buildings and complex underground train networks! From Duplo to wooden blocks, Lego and Mobilo, Brio train tracks and junk model boxes, the children use all sorts of resources to build their imaginative creations. This large floor space is an ideal area for intricate design works and large scale buildings to take form.
Our role play area has been everything from the Three Bear’s kitchen, to a doctor’s surgery, a flower shop, a dentist’s surgery and an airport. Inspired by the children and facilitated by the practitioners, it is an area where carefully thought out props and backgrounds encourage the children to make believe and become someone else……
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