Short Heath

Our Curriculum

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As part of the Foundation Stage (Nursery and Reception Years) the Nursery Curriculum underpins future learning and is divided up into a number of different areas of learning.
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- Personal social and emotional well being – supporting children’s ability to cope with change, promoting an inclusive, ‘can-do’ community which values everyone and develops strong self-image and self-esteem.

 

- Positive attitudes and dispositions towards learning – developing enthusiastic learners with the confidence to try.

 

- Social skills – learning how to co-operate and work together, listening and contributing to the group they are in.

 

- Attention skills and persistence – learning to concentrate on their own activities and when in a group.

 

- Language and communication - developing children’s ability to communicate in a widening range of situations, using a range of vocabulary and communications skills.

 

- Reading and writing – supporting children as they explore, enjoy and learn about words, texts and the broad range of contexts in which these are found including a rich variety of books.


- Mathematics – developing children’s understanding of number, measurement, pattern, shape and space by exploring, enjoying, learning and practising in a wide range of contexts.

 

- Knowledge and understanding of the world – fostering and developing children’s ability to problem solve, make decisions, experiment, predict, plan, and question as they explore and find out about their environment and the people around them.

 

- Physical development – practise and extend their fine and gross motor skills as well as understanding how their bodies work and how to keep their bodies safe and healthy.

 

- Creative development – promoting the children’s ability to explore and share their ideas, thoughts, feelings, through a range of art, design and technology, music, movement, dance and imaginative role play activities.


As you walk around Short Heath Nursery’s building and garden you will see some places in the physical environment have been given specific areas of the curriculum to be their focus. There is, however, always overlap and flexibility and no one place is ever used exclusively for one area of learning in isolation.
 


During the Nursery’s daily and fortnightly routines the children experience all these different areas of learning. How the children respond to and learn from the carefully planned self-directed and teacher led play based activities is monitored and fed back into the planning for future activities and opportunities. Observation and appropriate intervention by the staff, which are knowledgeable about child development and how children learn, enables children to be encouraged towards taking the next possible steps in their development and learning.

 


 
At Short Heath Nursery we provide well-planned play, both indoors and outdoors giving the children a crucial way to learn with enjoyment and challenge, The play will vary in form: sometimes it will be boisterous play, sometimes the play will involve describing and discussing what they are doing, sometimes it will be quiet and reflective play.

 

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