Curriculum at the nursery
All children at Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Sonning are encouraged to learn through play. Our Curriculum covers all the key areas of learning and is designed to meet the needs of individual children.
We follow the Government’s Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework which sets the standards for learning, development, and care for children from birth up to 5 years of age.
The principles which guide the work of our Early Years Professionals are grouped into four themes:
A unique child – every child is a competent leaner from birth who can be resilient, capable, confident and self assured
Positive Relationships – children learn to be strong and independent from a base of loving and secure relationships with parents and/or key person
Enabling Environments – the environmental plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning
Learning and Development – children develop and learn in different ways and at different times; all areas of learning and development are equally important and inter-connected.
There are six areas of learning in which our Early Years Professionals support children to learn and develop. These are:
- Personal, social and emotional development
- Communication, language and literacy
- Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy
- Knowledge and understanding of the world
- Physical development
- Creative development
Each child has their own key person to enable them to feel reassured, safe and cared for within our setting. This person also keeps a detailed Learning Journey of the child’s progress during their time with us. These records are available to be viewed and discussed at any time by parents, who are always encouraged to add details of their child’s experiences from outside the nursery.
Diaries are completed within the under 2′s age groups and are completed on a daily basis for each child detailing important information, all parents in all rooms will receive feedback at the end of each day from a staff member outlining what they have been doing.
Parent’s evenings are held twice a year and are an opportunity for parent’s to discuss their child’s progress on a formal one to one basis. These evenings are held in May and November.
World Days each month the nursery concentrates on a country, the children get to learn about this country and will do a variety of activities based around this country such as having a go on a didgeridoo or trying some cusine from that country.