Welcome to our Parents

Information presentation

• How we support your child at Day Care at Saint Martin’s.

• How we deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage.

The early years of a child’s life are

critically important

• We have found overwhelming evidence that children’s life chances are most heavily predicated on their development in the first five years of life. It is family background, parental education, good parenting and the opportunities for learning and development in those crucial years that together matter more to children than money, in determining whether their potential is realised in adult life.

Field, F. (December 2010)

• A child’s experiences during their early years provide the essential foundations for life. Their development during this period influences their basic learning, educational attainment, economic participation and health.

Dyson, A. et al (2009) cited in Tickell, C. (2011)

The Early Years Foundation Stage

(EYFS) 2012

• Children are born ready, able and eager to

learn. They actively reach out to interact

with other people, and in the world around

them.

• Development is not an automatic process,

however. It depends on each unique child

having opportunities to interact in positive

relationships and enabling environments.

Your Unique Child

Practitioners:

• Understand and observe each child’s development

• Assess progress

• Plan next steps

• Identify your child’s preferred learning style

• Support babies and young children to develop a positive sense of their own identity

• Identify need for additional support

• Keep children safe

• Value and respect all children and families equally.

Positive Relationships

Practitioners:

• Develop warm and caring

relationships and foster a

sense of belonging

• Responsive and sensitive

to your child’s needs,

feelings and interests

• Supportive of your child’s

efforts and independence

• Consistent in setting clear

boundaries

• Offer stimulating activities

for your individual child’s

needs

• Encourage children to be

strong and make choices

Enabling Environment

• Stimulating resources relevant to your children’s age, culture and community

• Rich learning opportunities through play and playful practitioners

• Support for children to take risks and explore

Wizards Laboratory

Exploring and using media and materials, learning to share and take in turns, shape space and measures, being imaginative, speaking ……..

Learning Style; Playing and Exploring

Finding out and exploring,

Playing with what they know

Being willing to ‘have a go’

Learning style; Active Learning

Being involved and concentrating

Keeping trying

Enjoying achieving what they set out to do

Learning style; Creating and thinking critically

Having their own ideas

Making links

Choosing ways to do things

Area of Learning and

Development

Aspect

Prime Areas

Personal, Social and

Emotional Development

• Making relationships

• Self-confidence and self-

awareness

• Managing feelings and

behaviour

Prime Areas Physical Development

• Moving and handling

• Health and self-care

Prime Areas

Communication and Language

• Listening and attention

• Understanding

• Speaking

Specific areas

Literacy

• Reading

• Writing

Specific Areas

Mathematics

• Numbers

• Shape, space and measure

Specific Areas

Understanding the World

• People and communities

• The world

• Technology

Specific Areas

Expressive Arts and Design

• Exploring and using media and

materials

• Being imaginative

Planning

PARTNERSHIP WITH PARENTS How we work with you to get the best outcome for your child

Partnership with parents

• Quarterly progress updates

• Daily diaries

• 2 year old progress check

• Invitations to attend events at the nursery

• ‘There is an extremely strong partnership with parents and carers, and they are fully involved in their children's learning through working on activities with them at home and contributing to their progress

records.’ Ofsted 2012

The Staff Team

• Highly qualified

• Long serving

• Dedicated

• Talented

• Playful practitioners