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Our Curriculum

The foundation stage, begins when a child is three, helps children develop the understanding, skills and attitudes that they will need in later life. Children are constantly encountering new experiences and seeking to understand them in order to extend their skills, develop their confidence and build on what they already know. They learn in many different ways.

 

Our teachers have a crucial role in this learning and they draw on a range of teaching and care strategies and knowledge of child development. Children deepen their understanding by playing, talking, observing, planning, questioning, experimenting, testing, repeating, reflecting and responding to adults and to each other. The Foundation Stage Curriculum is based on a number of principles.

All of our teachers use a guided curriculum to develop the child in the social, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual domain. At our school kids use a well-rounded program of socialization, free movement and expression, creative activities, story reading and music.

 

We allow children to participate in thematic unit activities and special theme days. We balance instructional formats by offering ample play opportunities in rich environments as well as large and small groups and individual learning opportunities coordinated by the teaching staff.


Our curriculum is based on developmentally appropriate education that challenges and encourages but never pushes. We use a constructional curriculum in which we provide learning experiences that promote cognitive, language, social-emotional and physical development.

 

We create and capitalize on teachable moments as children discover their world through play.  Water table, blocks, dramatic play materials, cooking, painting and drawing are some of the readily available activities in the classroom.

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