Our curriculum is based on the Revised Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Curriculum, which underpins all areas of learning by supporting, fostering, promoting, and developing children’s skills across the curriculum.
We aim to build on the valuable foundations you have already laid in your child’s early education, and we look forward to working in partnership with you. Our goal is to ensure that every child makes the greatest possible progress during their time at Brunswick Nursery School, at a pace that is right for them.
The nursery day is carefully planned to provide children with a wide range of stimulating experiences, both inside our nursery rooms and outside in our large garden. Learning takes place through a child initiated and child focused approach, using play based situations so that learning is meaningful, engaging and 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 learn 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 to take appropriate physical risks confidently and safely. Adults support this by allowing risky play and observing safety. Children demonstrate good control and co-ordination in large and small scale movements, move confidently in a range of ways showing awareness of space. They use 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 feelings. They talk 1:1 or in a group, and listen 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 whilst developing 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 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 marks and express themselves through drawing pictures and emergent writing.
Mathematics
It is important that children develop positive attitudes to mathematics. They learn to look for patterns and connections; ‘have a go’ and talk to adults and peers about what they notice.
Through exploration of a maths rich environment, children 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 can:
- count in order 1-10 and 10-20
- count groups of objects with 1:1 correspondence
- compare 2 different groups and know there are more in one group than the other
- compare size
- investigate 2D and 3D shapes
- understand positional language and direction.
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. They follow recipes, cook and taste a range of foods.
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. They 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 nursery, at home and in the wider community.
For more information please follow this link ‘What to expect in the Early Years’