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The Early Years Foundation Stage: Learning through play
At Willow Cottage we thoroughly believe that learning should be great fun. We provide a stimulating environment, both inside and out, encouraging children to explore and learn, to use their imagination and to solve problems. Our early year’s professionals, qualified teachers and nursery nurses plan and resource a stimulating and thorough programme of exciting and imaginative early learning sessions and activities. These activities often follow our natural cycle of calendar events, using a framework of our seasons, and festivals. These activities are also personalised to reflect the developmental needs and interests ofeach child. Individualised play plans are created to provide activities that will interest, challenge, direct, and enable each child to achieve their own personal best within the EarlyYears Foundation Stage. Our long term, short term, and weekly planning is rigorously under taken by our early years professionals, teachers, nursery nurses and specialist staff using the following areas of learning:
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Personal, Social and Emotional Development
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Communication, Language and Literacy
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Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy Development
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Knowledge and Understanding of the World
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Physical Development
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Creative Development
Through our planning we encourage each child with:
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Language and literacy development -through reading, poetry, finger rhymes and an extensive use of books, stories and story sacks (books with puppets/props that bring the stories alive).
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Letter formation, progressing to unaided writing of news and stories.
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Number recognition, counting skills and basic mathematical concepts.
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First level Information Technology and use of computers.
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Colour recognition. Early science, geography, history and religious concepts.
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Early “European Languages”, (normally French and Spanish).
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Physical play and development through extensive use of movement, dance and drama.
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Developmental music, rhythm, listening skills and singing.
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All kinds of craft activities encouraging independence and imagination, and sensory, creative and manipulative skills.
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High standards of personal and social behaviour.
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Christian values and education. |
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