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| Curriculum |
Within the group, all
children are supported in developing their potential at
their own pace.
Our key person system
enables us to ensure a planned curriculum tailored to the
needs of each individual child. By means of developmentally
appropriate play activities and a high level of individual
adult input, we offer a curriculum which enables children
to progress towards the early learning goals throughout the
Foundation Stage and prepares them for the National Curriculum,
which begins at Year 1 in Primary School.
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| Communication,
Language & Literacy Development |
Children are encouraged
to extend their vocabulary and fluency by talking and listening,
and by hearing and responding to stories, songs and rhymes.
Children are helped
to understand that written symbols carry meaning, to be aware
of the purposes of writing and when they are ready, to use
drawn and written symbols for themselves. A well-stocked book
corner gives every child the opportunity and encouragement
to become familiar with books, able to handle them and aware
of their uses, both for reference and as a source of stories
and pictures.
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| Personal,
Social & Emotional Development |
Within a nurturing environment,
children are individually supported in developing confidence
autonomy and self-respect.
They are encouraged
to work and concentrate independently and also to take part
in the life of the group sharing and co-operating with other
children and adults. Through activities, conversation and
practical example they learn acceptable ways to express their
own feelings and to have respect for the feelings of others.
All children are given
the opportunity, as appropriate, to take responsibility for
themselves and also for the group, and its property.
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| Problem Solving, Reasoning And Numeracy |
By means of adult-supported
practical experience, children become familiar with the
sorting, matching, ordering, sequencing and counting activities,
which form the basis for early mathematics.
As they use their developing
mathematical understanding to solve practical problems, children
are assisted to learn and use the vocabulary of mathematics
identifying objects by shape, position, size, volume and number.
Songs, games and picture books help children become aware
of number sequences and simple mathematical operations.
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| Knowledge
& Understanding Of The World |
Children explore and
experiment with a range of natural and manufactured materials.
They learn to observe the features of objects and substances,
recognising difference, patterns and similarities, and to
share and record their findings.
Children are assisted
in exploring and understanding their environment, both within
the group and also in the wider community. Our new computer
room enables children to explore the world of technology and
acquire new skills for later learning in history, geography
and science.
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| Physical
Development |
A range of equipment
and opportunities, both indoors and out of doors, allows
children to develop confidence and enjoyment in the use
and development of their own bodily skills.
A very high level of
adult supervision enables children safely to create and meet
physical challenges, developing increasing skill and control
in moving, climbing and balancing.
At the same time, children
are supported in the development of the fine motor skills
required to use tools, including pens and pencils, and to
handle small objects with increasing control and precision.
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| Creative
Development |
Children are encouraged
to use a wide range of resources to express their own ideas
and feelings. Art equipment, including paint, glue, crayons
and pencils as well as natural resources, provides for the
exploration of colour, shape and texture and the development
of skills in painting, drawing and collage. Children join
in with and respond to music and stories. There are many
opportunities for imaginative role play, both individually
and as part of a group.
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| Term
Topics |
| 16th April 2012 - 1st June 2012: "At Home" |
Some of the children have noticed birds on our feeder and plants changing in our garden and in the wider area, so our topic this term is Spring.
The children are discovering colour by mixing paints and their work will be on display.
We are continuing to use Jolly Phonics and games to learn about the phonic sounds of letters. This term the letter sounds are ck e h r m and d.
Our number work continues with lots of outside activities.
Tuesday, 21st February is Pancake Day and we are singing a new song. The words are on the notice board so that you can join in at home.
We will also be making Mothers' day and Easter crafts.
We are encouraging the children to chat about their feelings and how to express them.
We are playing games to learn about the rhythm of words, and understanding what your children will need when they begin to read and write.
We will be using a selection of hymns, songs and books about Spring.
Our Easter Egg Hunt takes place on the last week of term.
Term ends on Friday 30th March at 11.45. Have a nice break. See you again on Monday 16th April.
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| 20th February 2012 - 30th March 2012: "Spring" |
Some of the children have noticed birds on our feeder and plants changing in our garden and in the wider area, so our topic this term is Spring.
The children are discovering colour by mixing paints and their work will be on display.
We are continuing to use Jolly Phonics and games to learn about the phonic sounds of letters. This term the letter sounds are ck e h r m and d.
Our number work continues with lots of outside activities.
Tuesday, 21st February is Pancake Day and we are singing a new song. The words are on the notice board so that you can join in at home.
We will also be making Mothers' day and Easter crafts.
We are encouraging the children to chat about their feelings and how to express them.
We are playing games to learn about the rhythm of words, and understanding what your children will need when they begin to read and write.
We will be using a selection of hymns, songs and books about Spring.
Our Easter Egg Hunt takes place on the last week of term.
Term ends on Friday 30th March at 11.45. Have a nice break. See you again on Monday 16th April.
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| 4th January 2012 - 10th February 2012: "Term 3" |
Happy New Year! We hope you all had a pleasant Christmas Break.
We start the New Year settling the children back in to the Pre-School routine.
The children are cutting up fruit and making kebabs to eat - delicious!
We will continue to sing the days of the week song and look at the weather, our bird feeder and any changes to what is going on outside.
We are playing a group game with Teddy, and his wash bag to learn about a range of healthy practices in a fun way. We will also be exercising and dancing. To encourage the use of our senses, the children will be touching, smelling and tasting fruit kebabs they have made themselves. We will also be printing with cut fruit and the pictures will be on display. The children will be using listening skills with our musical instrument game and Jolly Phonics songs for the letters SATIPN.
We are revisiting road safety and this time we are learning about wearing seat belts in the car. Please remember to hold your children's hands near roads.
We are singing some shape songs and looking at the shapes around us. Please join in at home - remember wheels are circles. Who can spot a wheel first?
Finally, we are celebrating Chinese New Year on the 23rd-27th January, and this year is the year of the Dragon.
Note for your diary - the last day of term is Friday 10th February.
See you again on 20th February.
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| 1st November - 16th December 2011 : "Celebrations" |
This term is a very busy one and the children will be getting ready for the Christmas parties and the Nativity play, practicing and making Christmas crafts.
The children will be hearing numbers from counting to 1-5 and 1-10 and learning correspondence, by using their fingers to record amounts. We will also be learning a new number song about rockets for Bonfire night! To help children to listen we are singing a fun song with sounds, we will then be singing the ABC song and looking at the letters. We will also be learning at the days of the week song and looking at the weather. We are playing a game called "Danny the Dinosaurs' Birthday" during which the children will learn about 'bigger than' and 'enough'. You could join in at home by seeing who is bigger than your child in your family or are there enough plates etc for everybody.
We are spending a week on helping the children share, take turns and learn how to treat their friends. The teachers are going to act out some scenarios e.g wanting all the trains, or not sharing the fairy costume. The children can solve the problems and we will end up by saying what the best thing to do is - should be a lot of fun!
It's road safety week on the 21st to 25th November, so please help by getting the children to hold your hands (or the buggy) and stop at the road side. We will be learning about traffic and singing a song to reinforce this.
Towards the end of term we will showing children some pictures of our entertainer, 'Gary the Musical Clown!' He is particularly good with young children, but please let us know if your child is scared of clowns.
The Nativity plays are on Wednesday, 14th December and the Christmas parties are on Thursday, 15th December. More information will be available later.
From time to time we have students (on work experience weeks and on child care courses) in the Pre-School as part of our links with the community. Both the students and the children gain a lot from this experience and all students are closely supervised and never left alone with the children.
The last day of term is Friday, 16th December.
We will see you again on Wednesday, 4th January 2012!
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| 5th September - 21st October 2011 : "Welcome" |
We would like to welcome those returning to us, new children and their families. Our aim is to get to know you and to support your children's progress through the Early Years Foundation Stage towards the Early Learning Goals. Your child's Key Person will gradually introduce our routine and encourage the children to learn staff and children's names, to make friends and feel a sense of belonging. We will be teaching, modelling and praising sharing, taking turns, being kind, being polite and listening to others and we would ask you to join in with this at home.
The children will be singing nursery rhymes from our song bag selection. If you have a favourite song, please let us know.
The children will be painting and gluing, playing musical instruments, singing number rhymes and positional songs as well as playing a roll-a-ball game to help us to learn everyone's names.
All children are different, so please don't worry if your child does not join in at first, they will when they are ready.
Please share with us any photographs, drawing from home or details of family occasions and events so that we can display them on our Sharing Board. The children love to show each other and chat about them.
During Week 6 the children will be taking part in a Rhyme Challenge - singing 5 well-known rhymes. They will be awarded a certificate in Week 7.
If you have any worries or concerns, please chat to your Key Person, the Supervisors - Pat Stevens, Jean Scarff and Jane Gooch or the Manager - Marion Wessel.
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| 6th June - 20th July 2011 : "At the seaside" |
Lots of the children are chatting about holidays and trips out, so this term we are using the theme 'At the Seaside'. If you have any postcards or shell etc you would like to share with us, please send them in with your children.
We are learning some new phonic alliteration songs as well as number rhymes and songs.
It's child safety week on the 6th June and we will be chatting about wearing sun cream, hats, T shirts etc in the sun.
The children will be looking at their clothes for patterns and making pattern collages for display.
This year our 'Teddy Bears' Picnic is on Thursday 14th July.
We will be ending the term with our favourite songs.
TERM ENDS ON WEDNESDAY 20TH JULY AT 11:45am.
For those going to 'big school', we wish you well, it's been a pleasure and a privilege watching you all grow in confidence and learning.
We look forward to seeing you all again in September if you are staying with us.
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The children often
wear the same or similar coats, hats etc. So please write
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