We have a wide range of learning activities available each day covering all of the 7 areas of learning; Personal, Social & Emotional, Communication & Language, Physical Development, Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the world and Expressive Arts & Design.
The children are encouraged to take part in as many activities as possible in order for them to develop in all areas of learning. They will be completing their focus next steps on a weekly basis, their keyworker will provide suitable activities in order for the child to achieve their next steps. All observations are completed and sent to The Learning Book where each parent has a unique account to view only their child's progress online.
CREATIVE: We have a designated creative/messy area where the children can use a range of materials such as paint, glue, collage materials and junk modelling-these are accessible throughout the day for the children to choose their materials and get creative.
HOME CORNER: We alternate the home corner each week to have different role play areas, often they can be themed e.g. police stations, hospitals or simply a home set up with a wide range of items to support the children's role play all suited to the theme for that week. Often the children will lead the themes then we adapt this and provide extra resources to encourage and support their development.
ICT: We have a laptop,camera and tablet in which the children have access to, we teach them about technology and they are able to access learning materials via these e.g. educational games/videos. We also have technology toys such as toy laptops, and musical toys for the children to freely explore.
CONSTRUCTION: We have a wide variety of construction materials such as Duplo sets, lego, wooden bricks, stickle bricks and bobble blocks. Each day the children are encouraged to construct their own creations or even follow some of our trickier ones!
WRITING AREA: The children are able to access writing materials throughout the day, we encourage them to draw/write pictures/letters to their family members and even make them cards on special occasions. We have different sizes of pens to help encourage the children's writing grip e.g. fist/pincer and to help them gradually be able to use a three finger pincer grip.
STORY CORNER: Story corner has books available all day for the children to access, these include; fiction & non-fiction books, dual language, audio books and even story boxes we have created (these are props to support the story).
SMALL WORLD: Our small world toys include; Dolls house/furniture, people/people who help us, cars/garage, trains/track, farm/animals, pirates, fairy world, space station, cartoon sets e.g. peppa pig.
PROBLEM SOLVING/NUMERACY: Problem solving is not just the toys in which we provide the children, it can be in everyday questions such as asking the children why and testing their knowledge and understanding which we do on a daily basis- we give the children opportunities to express their thoughts/feeling before sharing our own. Some maths toys we have do include Shape sorters, dominoes, tills, size activities, numbers, matching puzzles & many more.
OUTDOOR/PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES Each day we encourage the children to take part in physical activities to help their mental health and well-being, each day the children take part in different physical activities such as ways of moving, riding a bike, climbing on the play equipment or completing obstacle courses. We have an outside area in which we take the children out to play. We are lucky to be situated near a park, and community buildings which we take the children out on walks to visit e.g. the library and shops.
A variety of activities at each session ensure that we cover all development areas & comply with our curriculum which follows the Early Years Foundation Stage.