At Shine Nursery we have planned a curriculum which:

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• Engages and excites children

• Provides meaningful learning through experiences 

• Gives opportunities to build confidence, resilience, curiosity, problem solving, learning skills and imagination

• Promotes spiritual, moral, cultural, social, and personal development 

• Develops children’s skills and understanding and builds memory 

• Allows children’s gifts and talents to be fully explored and celebrated

• Encourages home and family learning

• Uses outdoor experiences to promote learning 

• Ensures children develop across the 7 Area of Learning: 1) Communication and Language, 2) Personal, Social and Emotional Development, 3) Physical Development, 4) Literacy, 5) Maths, 6) Understanding of the World and 7) Expressive Arts and Design

 

Shine Nursery practitioners understand children’s stages of development and are in tune with their needs. They will use every opportunity to build the children’s vocabulary, skills, knowledge and understanding. The environment provided for the children has some areas that are continuous such as the home corner, the reading area, the block play/ small world area, the art area, sand and water play and the investigation area, but they are enhanced weekly to promote further learning. Shine Nursery also delivers a themed curriculum in all rooms to give children a rich vocabulary and the foundations for learning. In addition, all children experience celebration days and events throughout the year and benefit from our visitor curriculum that includes: music, story tellers, dance, animal experiences and different job roles from our local community. 

Our practitioners have the highest levels of interaction and know that the best way to ensure progress and learning is to:

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• comment and describe during play and learning

• introduce something else to extend the children’s play and learning

• model play 

• suggest a further activity or demonstrate a skill

• pose a challenge 

• question - ‘what, when, where how, why’

• reflect on previous learning

• relate the learning to the children’s real experiences

• make the learning more multi-sensory

• Have back and forth conversations

 

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Sharing Assessment

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The key person will meet with parents to ensure all relevant information is shared and will complete the child’s initial assessment to inform planning for children’s learning. If the child is two years old this will be shared with parents as part of the ‘Two Year Check’. Key person staff assess children’s progress every day to further inform the planning. For most children a summative assessment is completed each term and shared with parents through a report or parents meeting. If a child needs additional support the key person will meet with parent/s more regularly. 

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Our Themes 

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Our babies are provided with routines, experiences and resources to develop their physical, communication, self-help, and social skills. Staff build up an awareness of their interests and repeated behaviours and provide opportunities to extend their learning and development. The children experience multi-sensory play activities and are encouraged to try new things every day. Babies begin to build their vocabulary and understanding by learning the names/ phrases of everything in their daily routine including names of people, objects indoors and outdoors, food/ utensils, clothes, and toys. They also listen to daily stories and begin to learn to sing simple rhymes and songs. Staff tune into children’s interests and build learning in the moment through extending their play, naming, describing, commenting and encouraging children’s spoken language. Staff also stimulate further learning, throughout the year, by introducing experiences through the following themes: 

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Autumn 1 – Exploring our Bodies

Autumn 2 – Exploring Food

Spring 1 – Exploring Animals

Spring 2 – Exploring My Family

Summer 1 – Exploring Outdoors

Summer 2 – Exploring Toys and Objects

Summer Holidays – Exploring Stories and Rhymes 

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