Helping children develop confidence and independence as they play and explore; learning to follow the daily routine and understand rules and expectations for appropriate behaviour; understanding their own feelings and developing respect for others.
Our setting
Our setting benefits from two well resourced rooms and a large garden. Both, indoor and outdoors, are organised into areas which allow children to learn through play.
Areas are clearly organised and labelled to enable children to learn where things are so they can independently access resources for themselves and learn to tidy them away.
We promote health and safety at all times through modelling and interactions with children.
Areas are bright, attractive and stimulating, displaying children’s current activities, pictures, photographs and words. We encourage children to feel that what they do is valued and we display a range of their work.
Through providing first-hand experience, pictures, artifacts, photographs, resources and activities we provide a rich and stimulating environment, in which children feel safe secure and cannot help but play, explore and learn.
Children have daily access to the inside and outside environment where there is opportunity to explore a range of experiences for learning including:
Communication and Language
Developing listening and attention skills; learning to distinguish between sounds; joining in with and learning rhymes and songs.
Developing understanding and talking, through broadening vocabulary, and using longer and more complex sentences, as well as responding to and asking questions.
Physical Development
Encouraging confidence in exploring different ways of moving individually and in a group with increasing control e.g. using wheeled toys, exploring construction equipment, small games equipment e.g. ball play climbing, balancing and tunneling play, den building,
Supporting children to explore opportunities for holding and using large and small equipment for making marks and joining materials.
Encouraging understanding of how their bodies work developing independence in self-care.
Literacy
Encouraging interest in looking at and talking about books; learning how to use and handle books; developing enjoyment in listening to stories and reading. Supporting children joining in and remembering rhymes.
Developing interest in mark making and writing so they give meaning to the marks they make.
Maths
Encouraging enjoyment, understanding and awareness of numbers and counting through practical activities rhymes and real experiences.
Exploring and talking about shapes and measures. Opportunities for problem solving.
Knowledge and understanding
Investigative play – texture play e.g.- sand/water/mud/playdough. Finding out and exploring the environment and the world through their senses. Talking about their observations and asking questions. Using and exploring ICT. Talking about people and the community.
Creative development
Role and imaginary play, exploring materials and media in messy play, painting, construction and malleable materials, exploring and responding to music and sounds.
Inside 60m+50m
We have two separate rooms only use for the childcare. The first room is the space for relaxing and sleeping that most of the young children need, were every child have their own cot. The second room is well organise bright room by different areas of learning, with activities such as puzzles, construction play, role play area, reading and small world toy, and the area for messy play as such as painting, experimenting with different textures and designs, gluing and sticking, and play dough, etc.
Outside 250m2
With our fantastic outdoor space every child will develop their physical skills which are important for growth, physical coordination and the movement of the body. When children play outdoors they increase their ability to balance, jump, climb, throw, run and skip.
Our activities benefit of the outdoor area as we use it for the gymnastic activities, gardening, sand and water play and outdoor play.