Our overarching aim in Early Years is to instil a love of learning with enthusiastic, motivated, happy and engaged learners who accept challenges, are able to cope with making mistakes and have high aspirations. Our continuous provision and adults offer a knowledge-rich, vocabulary driven, skills-based learning environment which is enhanced and adult led/linked to enable all children to achieve. The curriculum and learning environment is ever evolving and adjusted to reflect the needs of our children, their interests and next steps in learning so that all children can thrive. Our combined Nursery and Reception class ensures a smooth transition, into the Reception year and children settle really well.
Our practice and pedagogy is research-driven, working with our EYFS ambassadors group within the Trust, to ensure our teaching and learning is empowering, nurturing and offers hands-on learning where children are independent, accessing open ended, authentic resources and are confident and engaged learners. We offer a balance of child and adult initiated play which is responsive to the children and their developing needs and we value play as a vehicle for learning.
Our combined Nursery/ Reception space offers distinct areas reflecting the seven areas of learning and the children have ownership over the class, access high quality resources and learn new skills and knowledge in a safe, familiar, stimulating and inspiring learning environment. The Nursery outdoor area offers a hill for the children to climb, roll, crawl up enabling them to develop their overall body strength. The addition of a wooden castle, mud kitchen, crates, planks, water play, sandpit and dinosaur garden encourages imaginary, creative, collaborative and language play where the children share many adventures. Early literacy skills are taught through stories, songs, rhymes and environmental sounds and stories are an important and daily part of nursery life. Children are also immersed in language evolving from back and forth conversations, children’s interests, stories and topics. Our adults are skilled in scaffolding, facilitating and extending children’s language and share life and its adventures together both in indoor and outdoor play and share magical adventures in our forest schools area.
In Reception, children have access to open-ended, authentic resources and the continuous provision allows new skills to be learnt. Targeted, key, rich vocabulary is planned for and modelled by all adults and the children’s acquisition of new vocabulary is promoted through stories, rhymes, songs, historical events, experiences and planned visits and visitors to the class. The small world, domestic area, workshop and block play areas are places in the class that are rich in conversations and creative and critical thinking. Adults share thinking and carefully question the children to extend their knowledge, make links and embed new vocabulary. Snack time is also a lovely time for conversations. Our Reception children also have a 1 hour session weekly in our forest school, which is a highlight of the week for many children.
Our early reading and phonics is taught through the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds scheme of work and children are exposed to cultural diversity through high quality chosen books and texts. Maths is taught through the White Rose Hub scheme of work which supports the acquisition of the five principles of counting, 1:1, stable order, cardinality, abstraction and order irrelevance and composition and subitising. Over the course of the year, enrichment opportunities through visits and visitors are planned to expand on our children’s life experiences. Our children have enjoyed visits to the local bird hide, Holkham Hall, the sea side at Hunstanton, had visits from a local vet, and the Dog’s Trust. Children enjoy two P.E. sessions each week focusing on their gymnastics, dance and games skills and weekly forest school sessions provide experiences of climbing, rope swings, den building, nature art, hot chocolate and cookies and the chance to be at one with nature, exploring the world hands on, whatever the weather.
Lengo letu kuu katika miaka ya mapema ni kuingiza upendo wa kujifunza na wanafunzi wenye shauku, wenye msukumo, wenye furaha na wanaohusika ambao wanakubali changamoto, wana uwezo wa kukabiliana na kufanya makosa na wana matarajio ya juu. Utoaji wetu wa kuendelea na watu wazima hutoa mazingira ya kujifunza yenye maarifa mengi, ya msamiati, ya ujuzi ambayo ni bora na inayoongozwa na watu wazima ili kuwezesha watoto wote kufikia. Mtaala na mazingira ya kujifunza ni daima kubadilika na kurekebishwa ili kutafakari mahitaji ya watoto wetu, maslahi yao na hatua za baadaye katika kujifunza ili watoto wote wanaweza kusitawi. Darasa letu la pamoja la Chekechea na Mapokezi huhakikisha mpito laini, katika mwaka wa Mapokezi na watoto hujipatanisha vizuri sana. Utafiti wetu na ufundishaji wetu unategemea utafiti, tukifanya kazi na kikundi chetu cha mabalozi wa EYFS ndani ya Trust, kuhakikisha ufundishaji wetu na kujifunza ni kuwezesha, kukuza na kutoa mafunzo ya mikono ambapo watoto ni huru, kupata rasilimali za wazi, za kweli na wanajiamini na wanajiunga. Tunatoa usawa wa mchezo ulioanzishwa na mtoto na mtu mzima ambao unakubaliana na watoto na mahitaji yao ya maendeleo na tunathamini kucheza kama chombo cha kujifunza. Kituo cha watoto cha Nursery na Reception kina maeneo tofauti yanayoonyesha maeneo saba ya kujifunza na watoto wana umiliki juu ya darasa, kupata rasilimali za ubora wa juu na kujifunza ujuzi mpya na maarifa katika mazingira salama, ya kawaida, ya kuchochea na ya kuchochea. Nursery eneo la nje inatoa kilima kwa ajili ya watoto kupanda, roll, kutambaa juu kuwezesha yao kuendeleza nguvu yao ya jumla ya mwili. Kuongeza ngome ya mbao, jikoni ya matope, masanduku, ubao, mchezo wa maji, mchanga na bustani ya dinosaur inahimiza mchezo wa kufikiria, ubunifu, ushirikiano na lugha ambapo watoto wanashiriki vituko vingi. Ujuzi wa mapema wa kusoma na kuandika unafundishwa kupitia hadithi, nyimbo, mashairi na sauti za mazingira na hadithi ni sehemu muhimu na ya kila siku ya maisha ya chekechea. Watoto pia huingizwa katika lugha inayobadilika kutoka kwa mazungumzo ya nyuma na mbele, maslahi ya watoto, hadithi na mada. Watu wazima wetu ni wenye ujuzi katika scaffolding, kuwezesha na kupanua lugha ya watoto na kushiriki maisha na adventures yake pamoja wote ndani na nje ya kucheza na kushiriki adventures kichawi katika maeneo yetu shule msitu. Katika mapokezi, watoto wana upatikanaji wa wazi-mwisho, rasilimali halisi na utoaji wa kuendelea inaruhusu ujuzi mpya kujifunza. Vichwa vya maneno vilivyo na lengo, muhimu, na tajiri vimepangwa na kuundwa na watu wazima wote na upatikanaji wa watoto wa msamiati mpya unakuza kupitia hadithi, mashairi, nyimbo, matukio ya kihistoria, uzoefu na ziara zilizopangwa na wageni wa darasa. Ulimwengu mdogo, eneo la nyumbani, warsha na maeneo ya kucheza ya block ni maeneo katika darasa ambayo ni tajiri katika mazungumzo na mawazo ya ubunifu na muhimu. Watu wazima wanashiriki mawazo na kuuliza kwa uangalifu watoto ili kupanua maarifa yao, kufanya viungo na kuingiza msamiati mpya. Wakati wa kula chakula cha mchana pia ni wakati mzuri wa kuzungumza. Watoto wetu wa mapokezi pia wana kikao cha saa moja kila wiki katika shule yetu ya msitu, ambayo ni jambo kuu la wiki kwa watoto wengi. "Kutumia lugha ya Kiingereza na lugha ya Kiingereza, watoto wa shule ya msingi ya ""Little Wandle Letters and Sounds"" wanajifunza lugha mbalimbali za kienyeji na lugha mbalimbali za asili." "Mtaalamu wa hesabu wa White Rose Hub anafundisha masomo ya hesabu kwa kutumia kanuni tano za hesabu: ""1: 1, utaratibu thabiti, cardinality, abstraction na utaratibu, usahihi na utengenezaji.""" Katika kipindi cha mwaka, fursa za utajiri kupitia ziara na wageni zimepangwa kupanua uzoefu wa maisha ya watoto wetu. Watoto wetu wamekuwa na likizo ya ziara ya ndege wa ndani kujificha, Holkham Hall, pwani upande katika Hunstanton, alikuwa na ziara kutoka mtaalamu wa mifugo wa ndani, na Dog's Trust. Watoto hufurahia mazoezi mawili ya mwili Kila wiki, shule ya misitu hutoa vipindi vya mazoezi ya mazoezi ya mwili, kucheza dansi na michezo, na vipindi vya kila wiki vya shule ya misitu hutoa uzoefu wa kupanda, kupiga kamba, kujenga den, sanaa ya asili, chokoleti moto na biskuti na nafasi ya kuwa na asili, kugundua ulimwengu, mikono, hali ya hewa yoyote.