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Foundation Stage
Our experienced Staff, use a range of teaching methods and resources to enable each child to reach their full potential.
Children starting school at rising five enter the Foundation Stage of the curriculum. This consists of six areas of learning, leading to Early Learning Goals. These areas are:
- Knowledge and understanding
- Personal, social and emotional development
- Creative development
- Physical development
- Communication, language and literacy
- Mathematical development
It is important that the Foundation Stage is seen as a discrete phase in a child’s development and not simply as preparation for Key Stage 1.
SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
We aim to develop children’s positive awareness of the varied beliefs and life stances of different families and appreciation and sense of awe and wonder about the world around them.
MORAL DEVELOPMENT
We aim to develop children’s sense of right and wrong for them to have respect for other people’s feelings.
BEHAVIOUR
The ethos in the Nursery encourages good behavior, eg sharing, kindness, dealing with conflicts in a non-aggressive way and responding to adults’ requests. Staff recognize the importance of the adult’s role in promoting acceptable behaviour.
RECORDING AND ASSESSMENT
Whilst a child is in nursery, continuous recording of his/her achievements takes place.
At times, staff will observe what a child says and does and this will be recorded under curriculum headings in the child’s individual ‘observation folder’ which is permanently available to parents and carers.
Alongside this, each term, a few examples of drawing painting, mark making, etc., will be put into the child’s ‘Spec Book’ to provide a picture of the child’s development and progression.
Each term, these will form the basis of a summary of what the child has achieved that term and what we will work towards the following term.
All this information will be used in nursery to plan appropriate activities, and later, to write a transition report which will be sent to the child’s Primary School.
Copies of the termly progress report and the transition record are given to parents.
The policies, giving details of how we achieve the above aims, are available from the parents’ library.