Funtime Pre-school
Curriculum
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Overview
We offer our children a curriculum based on their welfare and education. Following the practice guidance for the Early Year’s Foundation Stage (EYFS) our pre-school believes that children learn best through play and quality interaction with both adults and peers. Our aim is to develop our children’s learning and development to age appropriate levels to allow them to progress with confidence to the national curriculum at the age of five years.
To promote learning in six key areas:
Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy
Knowledge and understanding of the world
Language and Literacy
Physical Development
Creative Development
Personal and social and emotional development
“My child loves coming to pre-school.” Parent Survey 2011
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A typical session at Funtime...
Registration/free play
The children are welcomed into the session and encouraged to find their own picture name cards for self registration. The pre-school offers continuous provision to the children both inside and outdoors. These include the following activities: Large construction; games and puzzles; mark making; role play; book area; sand; water; painting; small world; creative workshop; malleable materials; investigation and discovery. The children are encouraged to choose an activity that appeals to them and practitioners are on hand to promote learning opportunities. We believe in child initiated play and promote experimentation, investigation and repetition to build children‟s confidence and self esteem.
Tidying up time
To promote the children's independence they are actively involved in packing away the activity they were playing with. This is accompanied by music. We encourage the children to join in some physical exercise. For example, circle games, movement to music and push/pedal toys.
Refreshments
On a rota basis, children help practitioners to prepare the snack and help get the tables ready for the other children. Children will be offered the opportunity to be table monitors, passing around the snack and helping to clear away at the end. This is to promote their confidence and independence.
Group time
At the end of the session the children will be called together to experience a short reflection time (no more than a minute silence) we will then share a story and an opportunity to sing rhymes and songs. This encourages the children to extend their listening skills and promotes group participation.
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