Our programme supports children to develop:

• Confidence, whilst feeling safe, secure and ready to learn.
• Playing co-operatively and choosing their own activities.
• Managing and understanding their feelings and to understand how their actions affect others.
• A positive sense of themselves e.g “I am good at making things”.
• The confidence to have a go at new activities.

Our programme supports children to develop:

• Opportunities to develop gross and fine motor skills to hold a pencil effectively to write and draw.
• Using a range of large and small equipment – PE equipment, small sequins, tongs, tweezers.
• Balancing travelling and climbing equipment.
• Practical skills such as dressing, undressing, and using the toilet.
• An understanding about keeping healthy.

Our programme supports children to develop:

• Conversational skills.
• Listening and concentration skills.
• The ability to respond to and follow instructions.
• Extending and developing their vocabulary.
• Recreating experiences and roles through play.
• Role play area – often following children’s interests

Our programme supports children to develop:

• Naming and recognising letters of the alphabet.
• Strategies to decode new words for reading and writing – phonics.
• Hearing, recognising and saying strings of rhyming words.
• Reading words and sentences.
• Writing simple words and phrases.
• Using their imagination in response to stories and experiences.
• Sharing and discussing familiar books.

Our programme supports children to develop:

• Recognising, writing and ordering numbers.
• Skills and understanding for adding and taking away.
• Using mathematical words when talking about capacity, position, distance, time and money.
• Understanding of shape and size including 2D and 3D shapes.

Our programme supports children to develop

• History, geography, science, ICT and technology.
• Gaining an understanding of their world.
• Finding out about other people and places.
• Finding out about the past.
• Exploring and investigating.
• Making observations of animals, plants and talking about changes and differences.

Our programme supports children to develop

• Exploring and playing with a variety of art materials and media.
• Exploring colour and colour changes.
• Exploring shape and texture using all of their senses.
• Children sharing their thoughts, feelings and ideas.
• Developing an interest in music, singing and imaginative play.