Early Years Provision

We are very fortunate to have such a wealth of experienced EYFS staff within our team.  Our Early Years Foundation Stage caters for children aged 2 - 5 years old. We have different rooms for different ages, which can really benefit children and enable us to target specific stages of development. 

By the end of a child’s time in Early Years, we want children to be confident, resilient and explorers of their own learning, in order to break their comfort zones. We vary learning styles and locations in order to enable children to practise skills taught in a varied and repeated way.

Staff in Early Years work closely together to plan for progression across the phase, working closely to prepare real life, engaging learning experiences that challenge children’s thinking at an age-appropriate level through the use of outdoors.

We use open ended activities in the outdoors to challenge children’s thinking and help develop their communication and team work skills. All members of EYFS come together on a daily basis to reflect upon daily learning and to plan for the following day, in order to ensure that learning is relevant and reflective of children’s needs and interests.

Research and staff knowledge has taught us that scaffolding and challenge children’s thinking through conversation, motivates children to challenge themselves further. Similarly, children need to be confident in their surroundings before they are able to engage in academic learning. For that reason, it is essential that we build children's confidence and self-esteem, which will support their future approaches to learning, we have found that this works better in the outdoors. We spend time getting to know children and their families so that parents and carers are partners in children’s learning.

We spend our time outdoors in all weathers and use skills we have learnt in all areas of learning to develop our understanding when exploring outdoors.

Nursery Uniform

Our nursery uniform consists of warm red hoodies, black jogging bottoms/ leggings, white polo top, black trainers and red all in one puddle suits.

Classes

We are also so lucky in that we can also come together to mix and learn from each other due to the vast spaces our school offers.  Our Foundation Stage consists of:

• 2-year old Nursery (aged 2-3 years)
• 3-year old Nursery (aged 3-4 years)
• Reception Class (aged 4-5 years)

We boast small class sizes with a higher teacher to child ratio within our school.  Our children are always busy exploring, investigating and learning both inside and outside the classroom.