nursery aims

Our Aims for the Foundation Stage

Nursery and Reception

For all the children to feel included, valued and secure
To build positive relationships.
To build on what children already know and can do
To work together with Parents and Carers.
To provide a well planned, purposeful learning environment.
For children to explore, experiment, plan and make decisions for themselves.
For adults to observe and participate in children's play to promote learning.
to give children time to reflect on their learning and develop their play.
For children to be able to cooperate, communicate and listen, and develop an awareness of right and wrong.
For children to become independent and confident learners

A child's view

I like to look and listen

I need to touch and try

I want to smell and sample

And ask the question why?

Give me time to wonder

To imagine and pretend

Space to run and bend and stretch

Share secrets with a friend.

I want to hold and handle

I must play to understand

For I need to know so many things

To find out who I am.

The Reception Curriculum

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

This area of learning provides opportunities for your child to become a valued member of the class, develop their identity through increasing awareness of their own, and other's, needs, beliefs and cultures and also develop positive dispositions to learning. It supports the development of social skills by providing opportunities that enable children to learn how to co-operate and work with each other.

Communication, Language and Literacy

This area of learning provides opportunities for your child to talk confidently, respond to adults and to other children in an environment where speaking and listening are highly valued skills. It also gives opportunities for all children to explore, enjoy, learn about and use words and text in a broad range of contexts.

Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy

This area of learning provides opportunities for your child to develop their understanding of number, measurement, pattern, shape and space by providing a broad range of contexts in which they can explore, enjoy, learn, practise and talk about them.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

This area of learning provides opportunities for your child to solve problems, make decisions, experiment, predict, plan and question in a variety of contexts and to explore and find out about their environment. Your child will also explore the impact of Information and communication technology on their everyday lives.

Physical Development

This area of learning offers opportunities for your child to develop and practise their control over large movements such as running, jumping, climbing, swinging, hanging etc. and also finer movements which involve the ability to control the use of one-handed tools and equipment e.g. Digging tools, paint brushes, mark-making and writing tools. It also supports a developing understanding of how their bodies work and what they need to be healthy and safe.

Creative Development

This area of learning offers opportunities for your child to explore and share their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of art, design and technology, music, movement, dance, imaginative and role-play activities.