Curriculum at the nursery
All children at Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries are encouraged to learn through play. Our Curriculum covers all the key areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage and is designed to meet the needs of each individual child.
We follow the Government’s Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework which sets the standards for learning, development, and care for children from birth up to 5 years of age.
The principles which guide the work of our Early Years Professionals are grouped into four themes:
A unique child – every child is a competent leaner 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 and/or key person
Enabling Environments – the environmental plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning
Learning and Development – children develop and learn in different ways and at different times; all areas of learning and development are equally important and inter-connected.
There are six areas of learning in which our Early Years Professionals support children to learn and develop. These are:
- Personal, social and emotional development
- Communication, language and literacy
- Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy
- Knowledge and understanding of the world
- Physical development
Creative development
Our nursery benefits from having a Qualified Teacher based in our pre-school room as well as two practitioners with Early Years Professional Status (QTS).
Each child has their own key person to enable them to feel reassured, safe and cared for within our setting. This person also keeps a detailed Learning Journey of the child’s progress during their time with us. These records are available to be viewed and discussed at any time by parents, who are always encouraged to add details of their child’s experiences from outside the nursery.
Diaries are filled in on a daily basis for each child detailing important information, all parents also receive feedback at the end of each day with their child’s key person outlining what they have been doing
Parent’s evenings are held at least twice a year and are an opportunity for parent’s to discuss their child’s progress on a formal one to one basis.
We have a Dance, Drama and Music Teacher onsite who provides movement and music sessions for all children on a regular basis. Even our youngest babies have the opportunity to enjoy these sessions, encouraging tummy time, crawling and turn taking.
Once in the Pre School room all children are entitled to a contribution to their fees from the Government – EARLY EDUCATION FUNDING. Currently this is 15 hours per week for 38 weeks. This starts from the term after their 3rd Birthday.