Our Programme
Personal, social and emotional development
Our programme supports children to develop:
- positive approaches to learning and finding out about the world around them;
- confidence in themselves and their ability to do things and valuing their own achievements;
- their ability to get on, work and make friendships with other people, both children and adults;
- their awareness of, and being able to keep to, the rules which we all need to help us to look after ourselves, other people and our environment;
- their ability to dress and undress themselves, and look after their personal hygiene needs; and
- their ability to expect to have their ways of doing things respected and to respect other people’s ways of doing things.
Communication and Language
Our programme supports children to develop:
- conversational skills with one other person, in small groups and in large groups to talk with and listen to others;
- their vocabulary by learning the meaning of – and being able to use – new words;
- their ability to use words to describe their experiences;
- their knowledge of the sounds and letters that make up the words we use;
Mathematics
Our programme supports children to develop:
- understanding and ideas about how many, how much, how far and how big;
- understanding and ideas about patterns, the shape of objects and parts of objects, and the amount of space taken up by objects;
- understanding that numbers help us to answer questions about how many, how much, how far and how big;
- understanding and ideas about how to use counting to find out how many; and
- early ideas about the result of adding more or taking away from the amount we already have.
Understanding the World
Our programme supports children to develop:
- knowledge about the natural world and how it works;
- knowledge about the made world and how it works;
- their learning about how to choose, and use, the right tool for a task;
- their learning about computers, how to use them and what they can help us to do;
- their skills on how to put together ideas about past and present and the links between them;
- their learning about their locality and its special features; and their learning about their own and other cultures.
Physical development
Our programme supports children to develop:
- increasing control over the large movements that they can make with their arms, legs and bodies, so that they can run, jump, hop, skip, roll, climb, balance and lift;
- increasing control over the small movements they can make with their arms, wrists and hands, so that they can pick up and use objects, tools and materials; and
- their understanding about the importance of, and how to look after, their bodies.
Expressive Arts and Design
Our programme supports children to develop:
- the use of paint, materials, music, dance, words, stories and role-play to express their ideas
- and feelings; and their interest in the way that paint, materials, music, dance, words, stories and role-play can be used to express ideas and feelings.
Literacy
Our programme supports children to develop:
- their ability to listen to, and talk about, stories;
- knowledge of how to handle books and that they can be a source of stories and information;
- knowledge of the purposes for which we use writing; and
- making their own attempts at writing.
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