CURRICULUM

We follow the Early Years Foundation Stages (EYFS) guidelines using the seven key areas of developments to ensure that the children reach their full potential before they transition to School.

By providing learning opportunities through play driven by the child’s interests and characteristics of effective teaching and learning (playing and exploring, active learning, creating and thinking critically), we continually observe, assess and review each child’s progress. Children who have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or who have come from a disadvantaged background are identified quickly and given the unique support they need to have an equal chance of success.

 

Communication & Language

  • Read and sing daily

  • Engage children actively in stories, rhymes, poems and songs

  • Offer extensive opportunities to use and embed new words in a range of contexts through conversation, storytelling and role play

  • Invite children to share ideas, question and find solutions with modelling and support to enhance their range of vocabulary and language structures

 

Personal, Social & Emotional Development

  • Support children in managing their emotions

  • Help develop a positive sense of self

  • Children gain confidence in their own abilities

  • Support children to manage personal needs independently

  • Encourage healthy eating

  • Teach children how to make strong, warm and supportive relationships with their peers and adults

  • Teach children how to understand their own feelings and those of others, co-operate and resolve conflicts peaceably

Physical Development

  • Offer repeated and varied opportunities indoors and outdoors to have sensory explorations

  • Play with games, small world activities, puzzles, small tools, arts and crafts to develop their gross motor skills for healthy bodies and emotional well-being

  • Involve children in activities that develop their core strength, stability, balance, spatial awareness, co-ordination and agility

  • Provide resources which develop their fine motor control and precision to help with hand-eye co-ordination which lead to early literacy

 

Literacy

  • Daily story reading and song time sessions to develop their language comprehension and word reading

  • Encourage children to enjoy reading fiction, non-fiction, poems and rhymes to recognise and pronounce familiar printed words

  • Teach children to recognise all the letters of the alphabet

  • Develop the ability to read their own name and short common words

  • Support children with the use of one-handed tools and implements for later use with their handwriting, letter formation and word structure

Mathematics

  • Provide repeated and varied opportunities to learn to count confidently

  • Develop a good understanding of the numbers 1 – 10 to add, subtract and multiply

  • Develop an understanding of shape, space and measure

  • Encourage critical thinking to develop an interest and curiosity about patterns and sequences

  • Demonstrate though discussion and outdoor activities how to make links and connections to things in our environment

 

Understanding the World

  • Guide children to make sense of the world around them and their community

  • Expose children to a range of experiences through excursions such as parks, libraries, museums, play groups

  • Role-play scenarios and meet people who help us in the community

  • Incorporate structured themed activities to enrich their knowledge and understanding of our world, technology and cultural similarities and differences

Expressive Arts & Design

  • Develop children’s artistic and cultural awareness to support their imagination and creativity

  • Provide regular opportunities for children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials to replicate, create, improvise things they see in their everyday experiences

  • Encourage self-expression through music, dance, drama and role-play

  • Give children opportunities to hear, sing, observe and respond to varied cultural influences through song-time, celebrations and events

 
 
 

We regularly check and ensure our curriculum is meeting the standards that are expected.

 

I have 2 boys currently with the lovely ladies at A&M. I moved my son who is almost 4 to them at 18 months after a short spell at a nursery, moving him was the best decision I have ever made! My now 1.5 year old son has been at A&M since he was 10 months old and I wouldn’t have considered any other option for him.

The beauty and uniqueness of A&M is that with the 3 ladies working together, the kids get the buzz of a nursery but the care of a family in a family home. And they truly are a kind, loving and caring family.

They use an online system to send through photos and videos of milestone moments which gave me comfort when my boys were still babies. They also do activities that just wouldn’t be possible at other settings, trips out to parks, children’s centres, rhyme time at the library, as well as such fun activities at the house like growing vegetables and baking. My boys absolutely love it there and are always in such a happy mood when we pick them up, and my eldest even eats broccoli now thanks to A&M : )

It’s a truly lovely place, with 3 incredibly kind and caring ladies who I absolutely trust with my life, and I feel incredibly lucky to have my boys cared for by A&M, it’s the best start for them I could ask for.

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