Children's Learning Development

We plan and organise our environment and practice to ensure that every child receives an enjoyable and challenging experience which is tailored to meet their individual needs and interests. We provide children with opportunities to support and promote their overall development in a safe, stimulating and caring atmosphere, created by appropriately trained, knowledgeable practitioners with the involvement of all families within our community who are interested in and support our ethos.

We take care to provide activities which use equipment appropriate to the age and stage of development of the children attending our setting which will stimulate their interests and encourage investigation. Under supervision, we allow children to explore risky and challenging play to enable practice of existing skills and to build on and acquire new ones.

We believe in the importance of play to facilitate learning and development. All children need to experience a balance of adult led, freely chosen or child initiated play activities and experiences tailored to their stage of development and taking account of their individual needs, interests and learning styles. We are passionate about children exploring the process of learning; for us it is not about the end product…… it is about children discovering their own individual creativity, thinking and learning.

We undertake sensitive observation and assessment in order to plan to meet individual children’s next steps.

• Observations within the child’s learning journey records developmental progress.
• Evaluating and assessing the observations in accordance with the Early Years Foundation Stage 2014 and other theories on child development helps us to explore each child’s next steps and feed this into our continuous daily planning.

Learning Journeys

We use learning journeys for each child to track their progress while they are with us. Along with parents contributions, it is a lovely record of your child's early years, which includes; photographs, observations and their own work.