Curriculum

Our curriculum follows the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework.  We take guidance from Development Matters to plan activities and set up our indoor and outdoor spaces to ensure good development of the characteristics of effective learning;

• Playing and exploring
• Active learning
• Creating and thinking critically

Your child will experience activities and play that cover the seven areas of learning;

• Communication and language
• Personal, social and emotional development
• Physical development
• Literacy
• Maths
• Understanding the world
• Expressive arts and design

Our staff ‘plan in the moment’ when deciding what activities to carry out on the day and across the week. This is a pedagogical approach from Anna Ephgrave which focuses on making observations of your child in that moment of engagement in play and responding to that observation in a way that creates opportunities for learning to be deepened.

We offer a ‘School in the Woods’ session in the Bordon Enclosure for our three year olds where children learn from their natural environment and create art work using natural materials.  You can read more about this here.

We also offer baking and cooking sessions to encourage Great Britain’s next star baker as well as promoting healthy eating and a good attitude towards food.  Art activities happen daily as does  access to bikes and trikes outdoors.  We also have good links with our Lindford church community and we use this space to practice songs and meet the elderly church members once a half term.