Our Colleges Nursery Curriculum
Our curriculum and all our children’s learning is based upon the Revised Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum.
Colleges Nursery curriculum underpins all future learning by supporting, fostering, promoting and developing children’s development in all areas.
We aim to continue the extremely valuable work you have already put into your child’s early education and look forward to working with you to help each child, at their own pace, make maximum progress during their time at Colleges. The nursery day is carefully planned to give your children the opportunity to experience a wide variety of stimulating activities both inside our nursery rooms and outside in our large nursery garden. At Colleges we learn through play so that learning will be fun.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Become confident and independent learners
Children reflect on their own learning; they comment on their thinking and the ways they go about their learning; they show some understanding of how they overcome difficulties. Children show they are developing their metacognition.
Build meaningful relationships
Children communicate and interact effectively with adults and their peers. They take turns, accept the needs of others and are aware of the consequences of their own actions. Children form particular friendships and take pleasure from them. They begin to display confidence when talking to unfamiliar adults.
Understand their own needs and begin to self-regulate
Children will be able to focus their attention, hold information in their mind and plan what they want to do next. They will learn to understand and manage their own emotions, thoughts and behaviour acting in a positive way towards a goal, reviewing and adapting whilst displaying resilience and patience.
Physical Development
Enjoy physical activities inside and outside
Children learn what physical risks they are confident and able to take. Adults support this by allowing risky play and observing safety. Children demonstrate good control and co-ordination in large and small scale movements. Moving confidently in a range of ways showing awareness of space. Using a variety of tools and equipment safely and effectively.
Communication and Language
Express themselves, talk about something they are interested in and listen to others.
Children are able to express their own thoughts and feeling. They talk 1:1 or in a group and listen to when others speak; talking about what they are doing, have done or are planning to do.
Literacy
Enjoy books, listen to and retell a range of stories and poems and develop their own imaginative ideas.
Children enjoy a range of different books, both fiction and non-fiction. They can retell simple stories and respond to books with interest and emotion; as well as by asking questions and answering questions. Children know how to confidently use a range of resources to participate in storytelling and or story making individually or with friends.
Mark make with a range of media both inside and out and begin to write letters; Developing manipulative skills, leading to fine motor control and hand-eye coordination.
Children explore and select from a range of mark making resources; using them independently to make patterns and express themselves through drawing pictures and emergent writing.
Mathematics
It is important that children develop positive attitudes to mathematics, look for patterns and relationships, spotting connections; ‘have a go’ and talk to adults and peers about what they notice. Through playful exploration they learn not be afraid to make mistakes.
Through exploration of a math’s rich environment, they develop how to …sort, compare and count objects; to build an understanding of numbers and counting. They develop spatial reasoning skills across all areas of mathematics including shape, space and measures. By the end of nursery we aim that our children are able to join in to count in order 1-10….10-20.
They can count groups of objects with 1:1 correspondence. They can compare 2 different groups and know there are more in one group that the other. They can compare size and investigate 2D and 3D shapes. They understand positional language and directions. We share books with each other and choose books to share at home.
Expressive arts and design
Design and create using a range of materials and tools.
Children decide what they want to make, creating a plan in their head or on paper. They choose the materials they want to use; shaping and joining the materials effectively with appropriate tools. Reviewing and adapting as they go.
Listen to, sing and move to a range of music and create or improvise rhythms and songs.
Children respond to music in their own ways. Children choose a piece of music or make their own; using voice, an instrument or body percussion.
Understanding of the world
Gain an awareness of the world around us and the importance of caring for it.
Children respond to experiences and explore why things happen and question how things work in the natural and manmade world; noticing similarities and differences. They begin to show some awareness of how human activity influences the environment and living things.
Celebrate a range of festivals representing our nursery community.
Children respond to people, experiences and events; exploring why things happen and how things work in the world around them…nursery, home and wider community.