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Learning through play is the primary objective of the Pre-School team. Children need time to adapt to the pressures of the world and the structured formal education process is soon upon them when they enter primary school. Children learn and adapt to their environment at different speeds and ages within their own lives. All are individuals with their own requirements and needs. We believe pre-school provides the correct balance of play and learning for children in their most formative early years. It helps to build upon the communication and social skills that have already started to form within the home.
We have a very wide range of activities and equipment and we aim to follow the Government Guidelines set out in the 'Early Learning Goals'. The children reach these goals by a series of ‘Stepping Stones’. The areas of development covered are:
- Communication, Language and Literacy- Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
- Physical Development
- Creative Development
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Knowledge and Understanding of the World
As the children experiment with the sand, quantify with the water, discuss their 'news' at snack time, manipulate their pens and palettes and take up their roles in make believe play, they are free to share their pleasure of learning with the staff that at no time place any pressures on them, but are there to develop their invaluable learning experiences.
At the Pre-School we feel it is important for your child to be able to say at the end of the session, 'I did that, all by myself.' Don’t you? Please do not be disappointed if there is nothing to take home. He or she may well have been engrossed in other stimulating activities during the morning which may not have produced a material item but instead a happy sense of satisfaction and achievement.
How The Pre-School Is RunThe Pre-School is a member of the Pre-School Learning Alliance and is a Committee run organisation and thus belongs to the families that use it. When your child starts you automatically become a 'Member' and as such are entitled to vote at the Annual General Meeting, which is held in October. We also have a business manager who oversees the ever-growing demands put upon pre-schools from various authorities to enable us to maintain our high standards of care and education.
Pre-school Learning Alliance
Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education)