The Nursery School’s ethos strongly promotes that each child is unique. The provision across all areas is meticulously planned based on regularly updated, precise assessments of the children to meet the changing needs for inclusive practice. Through careful observations and planning, the children enjoy free access to a rich, varied and resource-filled environment that is stimulating, motivating, safe, secure, challenging, and age appropriate, combined with secure attachments with their Key Person and a ‘Buddy’ system (the second Key Person).
Experienced and knowledgeable practitioners use their expertise to guide, support and encourage the children to work at their own pace to achieve their full potential in all areas of learning and development.
The children are actively engaged and involved in decision-making, turn-taking, sharing and collaboration. The children in the pre-school classrooms use self-registers and choose where and what they want to engage with and explore. They choose their own resources and explore various activities throughout the day, both indoors and outdoors. The prepared environment, including provision for continuous play, provides free play, child-initiated, adult led and group activities.
Our practitioners have high expectations for the learning and development of all the children and this is underpinned by the themes and principles of the EYFS and the Montessori Method of education to achieve the learning outcomes. Teaching is of consistently high quality and responsive to the children’s needs. The prepared environment and the Key Person and ‘Buddy’ provide a secure base for the children to develop bonds, build positive relationships with adults and peers, and develop self-confidence, self-esteem and social skills, for example sharing and turn-taking through play.
The children play and learn in a rich language environment where the practitioners are role models and use their vast experience to encourage, support and focus on helping to develop in the prime areas of learning and development, enabling the children to reach their full potential.
