Our teaching in Early Years reflects the principles that:
Every child is a competent learner from birth who can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.
Children are encouraged to develop positive relationships. Partnership with parents is crucial to this development.
The learning environment plays a key role in the children’s development.
All children learn in different ways and at different rates.
All areas of learning are equally important and inter-connected.
Teaching and learning for the children in our Early Years has a high emphasis on structured, creative play and interactive learning. The curriculum is themed to enable the areas of learning to be inter-related.
Teachers are flexible to the needs of the children; for our Nursery children this means making individual links to their home environment.
The children work towards achieving the Early Learning Goals in three prime areas of learning, incorporating four specific areas.