Pupils follow the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum, which provides learning opportunities in seven different areas. These include: Communication and Language, Literacy, Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Mathematics, Physical Development, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design. The framework leads into your child’s future school setting and is centered on learning through play and exploration. Observations and assessments will take place for each child. More information about this will be provided after the children have started in September. We will keep parents well informed of their child's progress, throughout the Nursery year.

Children will then have a short session with their key worker to consolidate some basic learning skills before making their choice to access the wealth of resources and activities that will have been planned by the teachers. Children will learn predominantly through self initiated play and interaction with one another and with the adults working in the nursery. They will be involved in some structured sessions which will support the development of their phonics over the course of the week using Letters and Sounds. As well as sessions to develop their fine motor skills through Funky Fingers and their early maths concepts with the Ten Town programme.

The curriculum is fully inclusive and encourages every child to develop key learning skills and their own talents by working on those aspects that interest them. Teachers will plan activities based on children’s fascinations and questions so that they are inspired to find out more and become independent learners.

In the nursery you will see children involved in many different activities including: sand, water, clay, dough, painting, gluing, cutting, drawing, writing, sewing, house play, block play, building or making with a variety of equipment, cooking, working on the computer, reading and listening to books or audio stories, singing and playing with musical instruments. These activities are accessed inside and outside although children will also have access to a large sandpit, trikes, bikes and cycles and gardening and digging opportunities outside.