We are active!
We feel passionately that the focus of learning should be very much on fun so we will recruit part-time sport coaches and run training classes where enthusiastic boys & girls are given a helping hand to start their sports life. Our weekly park visits will be enriched with various sports workshops and activities.
We are inspirational!
We will bring colour and art to children’s little worlds by implementing art and design lessons to our syllabus.
We Love Music!
We strongly believe that music should be at the heart of early childhood and it is as important as literacy.
According to Jean Piaget (1896-1980), the noted Swiss psychologist, a child’s early years are the optimum period for intellectual development. He believed that children and adults think in different ways. During the “pre-operational” learning stage (ages 2-7), children begin to think and react through symbols (language, drama, drawings and dreams).
This stage is perfect for starting the process of learning music. Therefore, we will employ music sessions at certain times of the week and it will include basics as well as the introduction of a musical instrument (i.e. guitar).
We Teach French!
Second-language teaching is not a core part of the Early Years Foundation Stage, but there are many day nurseries and learning experts who believe it should be if UK-born citizens are ever to become more bilingual. Moreover, day nursery years are an ideal time for children to pick up foreign language skills as young children are better at imitating sounds.
That’s why we are planning to include French to our curriculum as a foreign language, which we are sure children will enjoy and achieve.
We Value Diversity!
UK early years curriculum frameworks emphasize developing young children’s own sense of identity and a positive sense of pride in their own family origins. Starting with themselves, young children can develop a sense of belonging to the local community and begin to understand and respect less familiar cultures.
We will design some of the play materials, books and other resources in a constructive way by reflecting on how young children learn about culture and cultural identity at our setting. We also plan to invite families to our cultural sessions where we can have instructive plays containing elements from children’s their own countries such as language, cuisine, customs, songs and etc so that parents can help us teach culture specific lessons from time to time. Your child will be included to these sessions only after your consent otherwise s/he will carry on the daily routine at the nursery.
We Use Technology!
As well as playing with cars and drawing with crayons or reading children’s books and counting beans together, we’re proud to have interactive smart boards and computers in our pre-school rooms.
We know that technology might sometimes be a lazy way of occupying a child and even contains risks to make your children unsociable or obese in front of screens so we will embed technology into our Literacy and Numeracy curriculum in a careful way that it will not entirely take over the proven tactile learning methods but will have a balanced impact on children’s development. Therefore we would like to use the smart board to focus learners’ attention in a multi-sensory way as well as help children with learning difficulties or physical difficulties via age and level appropriate educational software.
We will bring colour and art to children’s little worlds by implementing art and design lessons to our syllabus.