Curriculum

The nursery follows the areas of learning and development and incorporates these into daily activities. These cover:

PRIME AREAS

  • Personal, Social and Emotional Development

  • Physical Development

  • Communication and Language

SPECIFIC AREAS:

  • Literacy
  • Mathematics
  • Understanding the World

  • Expressive Arts and Design

Children take part in a wide range of well planned activities which are designed to meet their individual interests and needs. This is documented and tracked using learning journeys which are developed with parents and carers.

Child and Nursery Worker sat on wooden stools at a table outdoors
Children Playing

Environment

Our nursery offers a stimulating environment, which includes:

  • Natural wooded area and equipment
  • Balanceability training
  • Separate two-year-old area with garden
  • Soft play area
  • Vegetable/plant growing patch
  • Sandpits
  • Sensory Room

Natural outside learning is encouraged in the ‘Twiglet Wood’. The children experience all the areas of learning within a natural wooded area, which includes outdoor development, such as building dens, preparing wood for fires and a log circle for stories and singing. Risky play is promoted through climbing trees.

The nursery provides ‘Balanceability’ training where children learn to glide on a balance bike, moving on to riding a bike without stabilisers. Once they have achieved this, they receive a certificate.

How we Promote British Values

DEMOCRACY:
Making Decisions Together

  • Activities that involve sharing, turn taking and collaborating together
  • Let’s get talking communication box
  • Circle time
  • Staff to role model, ask and answer questions
  • Children voting for which activity or story they would like.

RULE OF LAW:
Understanding that Rules Matter

  • Learning right from wrong
  • Routines – Timelines
  • Use stories to describe behaviours
  • Rules, walking feet, tidy up time
  • Role modelling, Sand Timers Nursery Agreement

INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY:
Freedom for All

  • Language of feelings, singing, mirrors, emotion faces, stories
  • Choosing own activities and resources Self-registration
  • Helping with snack routine or tidy up time
  • Risk Taking – climbing trees, obstacle courses, climbing frame.
  • Comparing similarities and differences,

  • Acknowledging people have different opinions.

MUTUAL RESPECT & TOLERANCE:
Treat Others as you want to be treated

  • Children’s celebration and experiences
  • Stories that reflect and value children’s experiences
  • Visits to the wider community and visitor into the nursery.
  • Resources that challenge gender, culture, racial stereotyping
  • Resources that reflect diversity