Our diverse range of early years experiences and strong outdoor learning ethos enables us to offer a curriculum designed to allow your child to grow and develop throughout their early years.
Places available for children aged 9 months-5 years.
Prime Areas
Communication and Language
Communication and Language Development involves giving children opportunities to experience a rich language environment; to develop their confidence and skills in expressing themselves; and to speak and listen in a range of situations.
Physical Development
Physical Development involves providing opportunities for young children to be active and interactive; and to develop their co-ordination, control and movement. Children must also be helped to understand the importance of physical activity, and to make healthy choices in relation to food.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Personal, Social and Emotional Development involves helping children to develop a positive sense of themselves and others; to form positive relationships and develop respect for others; to develop social skills and learn how to manage their feelings; to understand appropriate behaviour in groups; and to have confidence in their own abilities.
Specific Areas
Literacy
Literacy Development involves encouraging children to link sounds and letters and to begin to read and write. Children must be given access to a wide range of reading materials (books, poems and other written materials) to ignite their interest.
Mathematics
Mathematics involves providing children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, calculating simple addition and subtraction problems: and to describe shapes, spaces and measures.
Understanding the World
Understanding the World involves guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community through opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology and the environment.
Expressive Arts and Design
Expressive Arts and Design involves enabling children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials, as well as providing opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play and design and technology.
Provision
Our continuous provision is what we offer to the children everyday, that is the resources and opportunities provided to the children everyday that adults can support- but can be accessed in the absence of an adult. When deciding on what goes into our environment we always ask ourselves the same questions, does it serve its purpose? is something missing? is it presented in the right way?
Our enhanced provision is about what is added to the continuous provision everyday - this will often feeds from the weekly seasonal inspirations, story of the week and children's interests. An enhancement can be big enhancement and change to something or small tweak- but its an enhancement with a desired impact and outcome for the children. Our enhancements will often require adults to lead or support, especially when younger children are accessing resources, to ensure learning is scaffolded and play skills are modelled and taught. The intention is that overtime children develop the skills and independence to access enhanced provision without an adult and or combine resources to create new outcomes.
Finally, The last aspect of our provision is focused learning - this is introduced by an adult, supported by an adult and has a clear learning intention and impact - this could be linked to the weekly inspiration or can come from a story or interest. Focused learning may also be small or large group experiences, building on key group interests or be focused around a visitor, like Emma the music lady.
Always at Holland House Day Nursery, we consider Intent, implementation and impact. This way we can ensure the best possible outcomes for children.