There are seven areas of learning and development:
The Three Prime Areas:
Communication and Language
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
and the Four Specific Areas:
Understanding the World
Expressive Art and Design
Communication and Language.
This is all about supporting children to make the necessary steps to become confident conversationalists and have strong listening and attention skills. This also supports their understanding and is fundamental in supporting all the other areas.
Providing opportunities for young children to be active and interactive. Developing co-ordination, control and movement. Helping children to develop an understanding of the importance of physical activity and making healthy choices.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development.
This involves helping children to develop a positive sense of themselves and others. To form positive relationships, develop social skills and manage feelings.
This involves encouraging children to link sounds and letters and begin to read and write. Children must be given access to a range of materials to ignite their interest.
Developing and improving skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, describing shapes, spaces and measures
Understanding the World.
Guiding children to make a sense of their physical world through opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology and the environment.
Expressive Arts and Design.
Exploring media and materials Sharing thoughts, ideas and feelings. Activities such as art, music, movement, dance, role play, design and technology.
Record Booklets, Observations and Continuous Provision
When a child starts at Fawley Day Nursery they will receive an account on an online system named Tapestry which will be updated regularly using on-going formative assessments. Practitioners will observe, assess and plan ensuring there are enabling environments within the nursery.
As a result of observations, next steps are identified resulting in personalised planning , implementation of activities, further observations and planning. There is a continuous cycle to ensure we capture all areas of development across a range of adult led and child initiated activities.
Partnership with parents
The observation records form the basis for discussion, reports and feedback on progress and achievements within the nursery setting. It also provides an opportunity for you and your child’s carers to work together to provide your child with play and learning activities supporting their development.
We have termly parents meetings where you can discuss your child's progress and look at their records and examples of the things they do whilst at nursery. The information we gather from observations and records help us to plan appropriate activities for each child.
Parents are also invited to suggest ideas for activities on the room notice boards, there are 'wow' sheets to share special events at home, the daily diary for under 3's to provide instant feedback on the day and the monthly newsletters in reception, by email or to read on the web site.