Curriculum
We provide the opportunity and encouragement for children to learn:
Personal, Social & Emotional
- The difference between right and wrong.
- Respect for people and property.
- Sharing and good manners.
- To show feelings such as wonder, pleasure and sorrow.
- How to dress themselves and go to the toilet independently.
- Personal hygiene.
- To gain self-confidence and self-esteem.
Communication, Language and Literature
- To listen to and enjoy stories, poems and Nursery rhymes.
- To construct their own stories and take part in role play.
- Respect for books.
- An understanding that words and pictures carry meaning.
- To write their own name and recognise familiar words.
- To communicate and express their feelings to their peers and adults.
Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
- An awareness of basic mathematical skills, such as addition and subtraction relating to everyday life.
- To sequence, compare, sort and count using everyday objects.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
- To talk about where they live, their families and events past and present in their own and other people's lives.
- To question how and why things happen.
- Skills like cutting, folding and building.
- To use toys and/or tools safely.
- To develop awareness of other children.
Physical Development
- Skills with balls, beanbags and wheeled toys.
- Co-ordination, balancing with and without climbing equipment.
- How to move confidently and imaginatively with increasing co-ordination.
- An awareness of space and others.
- Development of both fine and gross motor skills.
Creative Development
- To express what they see, hear, feel and touch.
- To use a range of materials such as paint, glue, pencils, crayons etc.
- Rhythm in music and use of musical instruments.
- An appreciation of colour, texture and shape in three dimensions.
French
- An optional extra.
Music
- Recorder - an optional extra.
