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24 Ranelagh Road

Wellingborough

Northants

NN8 1JG

01933 442121

 

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Curriculum

Playmates Children’s Day Nursery

Children start to learn about the world around them from the moment they are born. The care and education offered by us, enables children from babies to pre-school, to continue this by providing encouraging and stimulating activities that are right for their age and stage of development.

For children between the ages of 3 and 5 years, the pre-school unit provides a curriculum for the foundation stage of education. This curriculum is set out in a document, published by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and the Department for Education and Skills, and is called “Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage”. The guidance divides children's learning and development into six areas. For each area, the guidance sets out early learning goals. These goals state what it is expected that children will know and be able to do by the end of the reception year of their education. The six areas cover;

  • Personal, social and emotional development;
  • Communication, language and literacy development;
  • Mathematical development;
  • Knowledge and understanding of the world;
  • Physical development;
  • Creative development.
  • For each early learning goal, the guidance sets out stepping stones, which describe the stages through which children are likely to pass as they step to the achievement of the goal.

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    The nursery uses the early learning goals and their stepping stones to plan and provide a range of play activities which help children to make progress in each of the areas of learning and development. In some of these activities children decide how they will use the activity and, in others, an adult takes the lead in helping the children to take part in the activity. In all activities information from the early learning goals and stepping stones has been used to decide what equipment to provide and how to provide it.

     

    Playmates Children’s Day Nursery pre-school's timetable and routines

    Offer children care and education, as we feel they are of equal importance. The routines and activities that make up the nursery’s sessional day are provided in ways that:

    • help each child to feel that she/he is a valued member of the nursery;
    • ensure the safety of each child;
    • help children to gain from the social experience of being part of a group;
    • Provide children with opportunities to learn and help them to value learning.
  • The nursery organises its sessions so that the children can choose from - and work at - a range of activities and, in doing so, build up their ability to select and work through a task to its completion. The children are also helped and encouraged to take part in adult-led small and large group activities that introduce them to new experiences and help them to gain new skills, as well as helping them to learn to work with others.

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    Snacks and meals

    The nursery makes snacks and meals a social time at which children and adults eat together. We plan the menus for snacks and meals so they provide the children with healthy and nutritious food. Please tell us about your child's dietary needs and we will endeavour to make sure that these are met. The nursery caters for children's individual needs for rest and quiet activities during the day. Outdoor activities contribute to children's health, their physical development and their knowledge of the world around them. The children have the opportunity - and are encouraged - to take part in outdoor child-chosen and adult-led activities, as well as those provided in the indoor playroom/s.