The Early Years Foundation Stage
Children develop quickly in their early years and we aim to do all we can to help children have the best possible start in life.
Our activities are offered through the four main principles of the Early Years Foundation Stage:
- A UNIQUE CHILD – that every child is a competent learner 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, carers and/or a key person.
- ENABLING ENVIRONMENT – the environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning.
- LEARNING AND DEVELOPING – Children develop and learn in various ways and at different rates.
We will focus on the following three prime areas, which support learning in other areas.
Personal, social and emotional development: making relationships, self-confidence and self awareness, managing feelings and behaviour.
Physical development: Moving and handing, health and self-care.
Communication and language: Listening and attention, understanding, speaking
These three prime areas help children to develop and learn, and become ready for school. As well as the three prime areas, we will also plan activities in the following specific areas of learning and development.
Literacy: Language comprehension and word reading, mark-making, speaking and writing,
Mathematics: Numbers, patterns shape, space and measure
Understanding the World: People and communities, the physical world, technology.
Expressive arts and design: exploring and using media and material, being imaginative.
Every Child Matters
We want your child to feel happy and safe with us, and for parents and carers to be confident about us too.
Our team is highly qualified, enthusiastic and has many years experience. It is our duty as Childcare Professionals to ensure we help your child to:
- Be healthy
- Stay safe
- Enjoy and achieve
- Make a positive contribution
- Have economic wellbeing
We do this through our Key Person Approach.
All staff working at the preschool have passed enhanced checks by the Disclosure & Barring Service.
Key Person Approach
At Bunnies we believe that children are happiest and thrive most when supported by staff who know them and their parents well, and we also believe that ‘recognising parents expertise in their own children and lives, doing things with families rather than to them is crucial.’ (Moran, Ghate and Van der Merwe, 2004), and we embrace this with our Key Person Approach.
We allocate a key person who will work closely with your child, observing, assessing and recording in order to plan appropriately and purposefully for your child. This enables them to achieve their next steps for learning and keeping you informed along the way.
Our approach gives every child the reassurance to feel secure and cared for, helps them become familiar with the environment and feel confident and safe within it.
We provide an inclusive environment, and our SEND 14 Local Offer is available to read here:
