At Bushy Leaze we may be having fun, but we are also learning!  Our high quality activities are well planned and follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum:

1. Personal, Social and Emotional Development

    Encouraging children to:

• be independent, to develop self-esteem and self-confidence
• share, be co-operative and to develop a sense of fair play
• respect each other and to express their emotions appropriately
• to develop an awareness of other people's lives
• to have a sense of wonder and curiosity 

2. Communication and Language

    Encouraging children to:

• talk freely to adults and children
• expand their vocabulary and sentence structure
• listen carefully
• deepen understanding of language

3.  Physical Development

     Encouraging children to:

• move confidently and imaginatively with increasing control and co-ordination and awareness of space and others
• use a range of small and large equipment and balancing and climbing apparatus, with increasing skill handle appropriate tools, objects, construction and malleable material safely and with increasing control
• beginning to understand about healthy choices and being safe

4.  Literacy

     Encouraging child to:

• love stories, songs and rhymes
• be interested in letters and sounds
• enjoy a range of books

5.  Mathematics

     Encouraging children to:

• think about solutions
• learn about shapes, colours, size, time and money in very practical activities
• begin to count, order and do simple addition and subtraction in everyday activities
• be interested in numbers in the environment

6.  Understanding the World

     Encouraging child to:

• explore living and made things
• talk about their environment, families and familiar places
• select materials and equipment and use such skills as joining, folding and building for a variety of purposes
• use technology, where appropriate to support their learning 

7.  Expressive Arts and Design

     Encouraging children to:

• explore sound, colour, texture, shape, form and space in two and three dimensions
• respond in a variety of ways to what the hear, see, smell, touch, feel and taste
• show an increasing ability to use their imagination through art, music, dance, stories and role-play

The Characteristics of Effective Learning underpin all of our learning and they are:

• Playing and Exploring
  • showing curiosity
  • being willing to have a go
  • playing with what they know

• Active Learning
  • persisting and not giving up
  • being fully involved
  • enjoying what they do

• Creating and thinking critically
  • solving problems
  • finding new ways of doing things
  • making links