Nursery Education
Parent/carers will find planning sheets in every room – these allow you to see what we have on offer each day.
Children are able to join in the daily activities or if they prefer all our toys and resources in every room are low level so choice and decisions can be made all of their own!
The Early Years Foundation Stage is a national framework used to plan activities here at Sansway. Our provision reflects the four key themes and 16 commitments.
A Unique Child
Child development: Skilful communicator, competent learner.
Inclusive Practice: Equality and diversity, children’s entitlements, early support.
Keeping Safe: Being safe & protected, discovering boundaries, making choices.
Health & Well-being: Growth & developing, physical & emotional well-being. |
Positive Relationships
Respecting each other: Understanding feelings, friendship, professional relationships
Parents as partners: Respecting diversity, communication, learning together
Supporting learning: Positive interactions, listening to children, effective teaching.
Key person: Secure attachment, shared care, independence.
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Enabling Environments
Observation, Assessments & Planning: Starting with the child, planning and assessment.
Supporting every child: Children’s needs, the learning journey, working together.
The learning environment: The emotional environment, the outdoor environment.
The wider context: Transitions and continuity, multi agency working & the community.
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Learning and Development
Play & Exploration: Learning through experience, adult involvement, contexts for learning
Active learning: Mental & physical involvement, decision making, personalized learning
Creativity and physical thinking: Making connections, transforming and understanding, sustained shared thinking
Areas of development and learning.
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Nursery Education
All our children at Sansway have Learning Journey books – A profile of their achievements & progress at nursery.
The Learning Journey contains observations made by your child’s carer during play – from these observations our nursery nurses can plan activities around each individual child’s personal interests and needs – creating a positive relationship with your child.
The profiles are a wonderful keepsake documenting your child’s journey through pre- school with photographs and special pieces of work. Children take their learning journey with them to reception class a great way for teacher to update herself on progress to date!
Many parents have commented on the benefits of children staying at Sansway in our small pre school groups (4-8 per group) and joining reception class together.
Parent/carers are invited to a review meeting with their child’s key carer at the end of every term – a valuable time to update on progress at nursery and home.
Outside Nursery Education
We give the children opportunities to experience the local community, knowledge & understanding of the environment around us by visiting the local Farm, Park, Blaise Castle & museum.
The nursery is situated next to our local community farm – this enables us to take walks safely across the field to see the farm life. We take advantage of the Farm’s newly created nature trail collecting cones, twigs, leaves & even bugs in our collecting jars. |
