The Nursery follows a ‘Creative Curriculum’ alongside the rest of the school.
Children will be encouraged to take part in a range of activities to promote learning in the seven areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum. These are:
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Communication and Language
- Physical Development
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the World
- Expressive Arts and Design
Activities are planned to enable children to follow their interests and ideas and to participate in a broad and balanced range of activities linked to the EYFS Curriculum. Children are encouraged to develop their learning and understanding through their play and to have fun in a safe and stimulating environment.
Whilst at nursery children can expect to experience:
- Settling in, learning routines and expectations
- Learning how to share, take turns and cooperate with other people
- Promote independence in self-care skills like putting on shoes/boots, aprons and washing hands
- Making new friends
- Recognising our own names
- Developing phonological awareness
- Playing imaginative games, talking to others and making up stories whilst playing
- Sharing photos of ourselves, our families and friends
- Sharing stories, songs, rhymes and poems
- Counting, sorting and recognising shapes and written numbers
- Enjoying music, musical instruments, dance, yoga, physical movement and games.
- Painting, drawing, printing, collage and clay
- Exploring malleable materials and ‘messy play’
- Using a variety of construction materials and tools
- Exploring and investigating sand and water using different tools and equipment
- Learning to use ICT equipment
- Exploring the outside environment and learning about the natural world
- Physical activity with large and small apparatus.
- 'Forest School’ activities
