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