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With your help our child has become a very confident and happy young girl. Thank you very much.
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Birth to Three Matters framework
Birth to three matters values and celebrates babies and children. It recognises a child’s individuality, efforts and achievements.
Our caring nursery staff will help your child reach their full potential in a loving and secure environment.
The framework focuses on the child rather than subjects and is based on four aspects which celebrate the skill and competence of babies and young children. It highlights the relationship between growth, learning, development and the environment in which children are cared for and educated.
The four aspects are:
- A Strong child
This is linked to your child’s social and emotional development. It is about helping your child to feel confident, self-assured and enjoy being with others.
- A skilful communicator
Learning to talk and communicate is an important skill for very young children to master. This aspect looks at the importance of listening and responding sensitively to babies and toddlers as well as looking at ways to actively promote language through stories rhymes and toys.
- A competent learner
Babies and toddlers are curious and ready to explore their immediate world. We know from research that actively moving and exploring helps brain development. This aspect of learning looks at how to help babies and toddlers understand and respond to their world e.g. being given new sensations using items to feel, touch, hear and hold using their senses.
- A healthy child
This looks at developing the ‘whole child’ and includes food safety and hygiene. This aspect of learning is also about mark making, making sure children are emotionally secure, as well as decision making.
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Pre-School Foundation Stage
The foundation stage Curriculum lays the foundation for future learning, providing opportunities for children to learn both indoors and outdoors as an extension to the birth to three matters curriculum. The foundation stage ensures there is a balance of adult focus and child-initiated activities.
The curriculum we provide covers 6 areas:
- Social, emotional and personal development
- Communication, language and literacy
- World knowledge and understanding
- Physical
- Creative
- Mathematics
Nursery staff will build on what a child already knows and can do by engaging children in learning by initiating well planned and purposeful activities and appropriate intervention.
Research into child development places an increasing importance on the value of early years. We keep up to date with research and are fully committed to providing each child with the foundation skills and attitudes essential for happy transition to Primary school.
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Pre-School foundation stage for children with English as an additional language
Learning will be planned to help children develop their English and support them to take part in activities by:
- Building on language experiences at home and in the community by providing opportunities to use their home language. This is so their developing use of English and other languages support each other.
- Provide opportunities for children to engage in English speaking and listening activities with adults and peers.
- Ensuring all children recognise and respect each other’s languages.
- The centre is working towards ICan accreditation communication via sure start.
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