The Nursery promotes the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)  0 - 5years curriculum.

 

Cygnets 2-3 years (Foundation Stage 1)

The Cygnets Group follows a set of activities which is based on fun learning play activities, preparing them for the next stages of their development and growing into a swan.

 

Swans 3-5 years (Foundation Stage 2)

The Swans Group also take part in fun learning play activities at a more advanced level in order to promote their development to full potential and prepare them for school life. The children are put into groups according to age for some activities to allow the child to develop at their own rate. The groups come together at certain times during the session to promote turn-taking, sharing, music and news time.

 

 

 

Nursery Education - What are the Early Education Goals?

These are the Education Departments's nationwide guidelines for a structured Early Years Education for 3 - 5 year olds.

 

 

 

The learning is divided into 6 areas of:

 

• Personal, Social and Emotional development

 

• Communication, Language and Literacy

 

• Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy

 

• Knowledge and Understanding of the World

 

• Physical Development

 

• Creative Deveopment

What We Do At Nursery

 

We put high value on:

 

Basic good manners

 

Healthy respect for people and property

 

 

Good grounding in basic skills

 

 

Colour recognition

 

 

Early numeracy

 

 

Letter recognition, Personal Social & Emotional Development

 

 

Social and physical developmen

 

 

Personal and emotional development

 

 

Creative Development

 

 

Knowledge & Understanding of the World

 

 

Promoting high self-esteem and self confidence