Early Foundational Years
OVERVIEW
OUR EARLY YEARS
Nurturing curiosity and a love of learning.
Nursery to Kindergarten (Ages 3 - 6)
A Child's brain develops connections faster in the first five years than at any other time in their lives. This is the time when the foundations for learning, health and behaviour throughout life are laid down. In fact, by the time they turn five 90% of their brain will have been developed.
Early Foundational Years provides our Nursery to Kindergarten children with a happy, safe and enriched learning environment. Supported, nurtured, and inspired by our early years’ experts, our youngest learners have access to a broad curriculum that enables them to build strong foundations in core skills, as well as develop interests and nurture passions.
“Our Early Foundational Years programme is where we lay the solid foundations for each child’s success. Our approach is simple-we know your child so that we can support their individual learning needs every step of the way.”
TEACHING & LEARNING
OUR CURRICULUM
Our Early Foundational Years curriculum ensures a strong foundation for learning, with our youngest learners given ample opportunity to learn through play, whilst developing important literacy and numeracy skills to ensure that they can thrive in all areas of school life.
Our skilled practitioners support our youngest learners to develop in key areas like communication and language, numerical literacy, and gross and fine motor skills while at the same time encouraging them to become independent learners who remain curious about the world around them. This is done by tapping into each child’s interests to keep them engaged and challenged as they discover and explore.
Our learning environment, both inside and outside, is well-resourced and offers a wide range of multi-sensory learning opportunities. We balance play-based learning with the teaching of fundamental literacy and numeracy skills, Physical development, and music lessons, as well as personal social and emotional skill development.
Telugu / Hindi is taught as an additional language through a combination of discrete teacher-led sessions, and as part of continuous provision, with our outstanding teachers encouraging authentic and natural language acquisition amongst our youngest learners in Kindergarten.
Throughout their time at early years, our young learners have opportunities to follow their interests and take ownership of their learning. This is encouraged through first-hand experiences that create a sense of awe and wonder for children, inspiring them to learn more about the world around them.
“Our curriculum and approach are designed to ensure that a strong foundation is laid down to support your child’s further development throughout their life.”
IN THE CLASSROOM
TAUGHT CURRICULUM
Our Early Years offering consists of carefully designed opportunities and programmes that help children to learn through a play-directed curriculum and wider learning opportunities.
A Unique Child
Playing and Exploring
Active Learning
Creating and Thinking Critically
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Literacy
Communication & Language Development
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts and Design
Physical Development
Free Flow & Early Movers: Fundamental Games & Sports
BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
WIDER LEARNING
Even in the Early Years, we offer a broad co-curricular activity to ignite passions and develop new interests among our children. We offer Water Play Days, Woodwork, Cooking, Trips, Nature Plays, Storytelling, imaginative plays and much more CCAs. We strive to make our little children able to learn about nature, explore and take risks in a safe and controlled environment and learn to become responsible citizens of the earth who respect and preserve her resources.