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Your child's Learning....
Our Ethos:
We have created a home from home setting, where children feel safe and relaxed. Our children are nurtured and encouraged to explore our resources to learn through child lead play supported by our caring team of staff.
We encourage diversity, mutual respect and promote inclusion throughout our daily routines and our close partnership working with parents and families.
Our Curriculum:
We are building the foundations and readiness for our little explorers to take the next big step in their journey to big school. We are helping to build confidence, resilience and most importantly independence. We do this by implementing the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). supported by the Birth to five matters. We provide activities and resources to stretch the imagination and learning abilities of each individual child. We learn and adapt to each of our children's needs, interests and abilities.
The EYFS is a stage of children’s development from birth to the end of their first (Reception) year in school. It is a framework that explains how we support your child’s learning, development and care through a range of activities. This enables us to make sure that your child achieves the most they can while in our care.
Parents & Carers can check out this really useful document to help build your understanding and support your child's learning in what to expect in the Early Years Foundation Stage.
As a setting we ensure we keep up to date of various changes made.
Development Matters is the EYFS Framework that explains how and what your child will be learning to support their healthy development. Your child will be learning skills, acquiring new knowledge and demonstrating their understanding through 7 areas of learning and development.
Children should mostly develop the 3 prime areas first. These are:
These prime areas are those most essential for your child’s healthy development and future learning. As children grow, the prime areas will help them to develop skills in 4 specific areas. These are:
These 7 areas are used to plan your child’s learning and activities. The professionals teaching and supporting your child will make sure that the activities are suited to your child’s unique needs. This is a little bit like a curriculum in primary and secondary schools, but is suitable for very young children, and is designed to be really flexible so that staff can follow your child's unique needs and interests.
Children in the EYFS learn by playing and exploring, being active, and through creative and critical thinking which takes place both indoors and outside.
At Exbourne Pre-School, we use Learning journeys to help us to support the learning and development of your child. Learning journeys are a way of collecting observation notes and information about every child. The information is then used to help us to understand their needs and provide for them.
We use a live capture system via famly.co to help document and inform you of your child’s progress and development via a secure newsfeed that you can view via the Famly App.
