THE ENVIRONMENT

The British School Nursery is a fun learning environment for 3-4 year old children. With the National Curriculum for England as our guide, the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) leads our programme. We provide a stimulating and educational curriculum for developing and encouraging young, inquiring minds.

Reflecting the EYFS programme, the Nursery is an open-planned setting which presents the children with the opportunities to make choices and decisions throughout the session. Our daily programme is designed to reflect children’s needs, interests and stage of development. Using individual learning objectives, children interact, explore, investigate and further develop their communication skills through a variety of learning centres. These centres reflect the six Key Learning Areas (KLAs) described in the EYFS curriculum.

The six Key Learning Areas are:

· Communication, Language and Literacy Development

· Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy

· Personal, Social and Emotional Development

· Physical Development

· Knowledge and Understanding of the World

· Creative Development

Each of these Key Learning Areas is equally important and cannot be delivered in isolation of each other. Therefore, each experience presented to the children fosters more than one Key Learning Area, thus supporting a rounded approach to children’s development. Play underpins all development and learning for young children. Most children play spontaneously and it is through play that they develop intellectually, creatively, physically, socially and emotionally. Through our open-planned room children are able to choose from a variety of activity stations. Enabling children to choose between book corner, messy play or construction play allows them to make decisions reflecting their natural interests and impulses whilst learning to make smooth transitions between experiences. The Key Learning Areas are integrated into our daily programme through a variety of child-initiated and teacher-led experiences. All experiences, whether indoors or outdoors, show our understanding that all children learn and develop in different ways and at different rates. This allows them to interact in a positive and meaningful way, at their own level and pace. The progress of each child will be monitored through observations, work samples, photographs, portfolios and Parent/Teacher conferences. This information will be integrated into the EYFS Profile, creating a collective assessment tool, which will help set the child’s personal goals. These profiles also provide a summary of each child’s progress towards the Early Learning Goals which are recommended by the National Curriculum for England. Together, these strategies enable us to achieve our objective of providing a suitable level of challenge for happy, well motivated children.

All children will be able to interact in a positive and meaningful manner, at their own level and pace.