At Rainbow, we recognise that at whatever age a child starts pre-school, they will have different interests and skills and it is our aim to extend those and develop their confidence and learning through play
When your child starts at pre-school their key-person will meet with you to learn more about your child. This provides their starting point for your child’s learning journey throughout pre-school. The Learning Journal is our way of documenting your child’s progress through the Early Years curriculum.
Our learning covers the seven areas development of the EYFS framework:
- Personal, Social & Emotional
- Communication & Language
- Physical
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the World
- Expressive Arts & Design
Personal, Social & Emotional
Our programme supports children to develop:
- positive approaches to learning and finding out about the world around them;
- confidence in themselves and their ability to do things and valuing their own achievements;
- their ability to get on, work and make friendships with other people, both children and adults;
- their awareness of and being able to keep to the rules which we all need to help us look after ourselves, other people and our environment; and
- their ability to expect to have their ways of doing things respected and they learn to respect other people’s ways of doing things
Communication & Language
Our programme supports children to develop:
- conversational skills with one other person , in small groups and in large groups to talk with and listen to others;
- their vocabulary by learning the meaning of – and being able to use – new words;
- their ability to use words to describe their experiences;
- their knowledge of the sounds and letters that make up the words we use; and
- their ability to listen to, and talk about, stories
Physical
Our programme supports children to develop:
- increasing control over the large movements that they can make with their arms, legs and bodies, so that they can run, jump, hop, skip, roll, climb, balance and lift;
- increasing control over the small movements they can make with their arms, wrists and hands so that they can pick up and use objects, tools and materials;
- their ability to dress and undress themselves;
- their ability to look after their personal hygiene and toileting needs; and
- their understanding about the importance of, and how to look after their bodies
Literacy
Our programme supports children to develop:
- knowledge of how to handle books and that they can be a source of stories and information;
- enjoyment of songs, poems, stories and rhymes;
- an ability to recognise familiar words;
- knowledge of the purposes for which we use writing; and
- making their own attempts at recording, mark making and writing
Mathematics
Our programme supports children to develop:
- understanding and ideas about how many, how much, how far and how big;
- understanding of numbers and their order;
- understanding and ideas about patters, the shape of objects and parts of objects, and the amount of space taken up by objects;
- understanding that numbers help us to answer questions about how many, how much, how far and how big;
- understanding that objects can be categorised by their features;
- understanding and ideas about how to use counting to find out how many we already have
Understanding the World
Our programme supports children to develop:
- knowledge about the natural and man-made world and how it works;
- an interest in the significant people and events in their lives;
- their learning about computers, how to use them and what they can help us to do; and
- their learning about their locality and its special features
Expressive Arts & Design
Our programme supports children to develop:
- The use of paint, materials, music, dance, words, stories and role-play to express their ideas and feelings; and
- their interest in the way that paint, materials, music, dance, words, stories and role-play can be used to express ideas and feelings
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At Rainbow, we recognise that at whatever age a child starts pre-school, they will have different interests and skills and it is our aim to extend those and develop their confidence and learning through play.
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Curriculum
When your child starts at pre-school their key-person will meet with you to learn more about your child. This provides their starting point for your child’s learning journey throughout pre-school. The Learning Journal is our way of documenting your child’s progress through the Early Years curriculum.
Our learning covers the seven areas development of the EYFS framework:
Personal, Social & Emotional
Communication & Language
Physical
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts & Design