We are affiliated to the Pre-School Learning Alliance (PLA) and follow the EYFS guide to curriculum. A theme is chosen each term and children have the opportunity to experience various activities around this theme including water play, painting, sand, dough, cooking, woodwork, music and physical exercise. We provide a rich activity-centred environment in which children can engage in spontaneous play. We see our role in extending play by observing children, interacting with them, giving further information, adding or changing materials as appropriate and, in some instances, providing a sense of direction. We hope to educate children with a degree of self-confidence, appropriate social skills and self-direction, who are ready for the kind of sustained play which enables significant growth in knowledge and understanding.

Our curriculum fully prepares children to continue into the Foundation Stage at Primary School by covering the following six areas of learning:

PSED (Personal, Social and Emotional Development)
CLL (Communication Language and Literacy)
PSRN (Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy)
KUW (Knowledge and Understanding of the World
PD (Physical development)
CD (Creative development)
PSED: developing confidence and independence while learning to concentrate & to enjoy learning as part of a group.

CLL: communicating with one another and developing skills in talking, listening, writing & reading.

PSRN: using ideas about numbers, quantity, measurements, shapes & space.

KUW: investigating and beginning to understand the things, places and people around them.

PD: improving control and co-ordination of their bodies while learning to move and to handle equipment.

CD: finding ways to communicate by using colour, shape, sound, texture, movement & stories.

‘We recognise that children progress at different rates which we support through individual attention and assessment. Children who have special educational needs will be supported in their progress towards the aims for the Foundation Stage.