The provision for children’s learning and development is guided by:
The Early Years Foundation Stage (DCFS 2007). Since September 2008 the Early Years Foundation Stage became law. Revised Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage January 2024.
Unique Child
Child Development: Skillful communicator, competent learner.
Inclusive Practice: Equality and diversity, children’s entitlements, early support.
Keeping Safe: Being safe and protected, discovering boundaries, making choices.
Health and Well-being: Growth and developing, physical and emotional wellbeing.
Positive Relationships
Respecting Each Other: Understanding feelings, friendship, professional relationships.
Parents as Partners: Respecting diversity, communication, learning together.
Supporting Learning: Positive interaction, listening to children, effective teaching.
Key Person: Secure attachment, shared care, independence.
Enabling Environments
Observation, Assessment and Planning: Starting with the child, planning, assessment.
Supporting Every Child: Children’s needs, the learning journey, working together.
The Learning Environment: The emotional environment, the outdoor environment, the indoor environment.
The Wider Context: Transitions and continuity, multi-agency working, the community.
Learning and Development
Play and Exploration: Learning through experience, adult involvement, contexts for learning.
Active Learning: Mental and physical involvement, decision making, personalized learning.
Creativity and Physical Thinking: Making connections, transforming and understanding, sustained shared thinking.
Areas of Development and Learning.
Children develop quickly in their early years and we aim to do all we can to help children have the best possible start in life. At Yardley Gobion Pre-School we ask parents to complete our ‘All about me’ and a ‘What to expect when’ document when their child starts Pre-School. The child’s Key Person then uses this information as a starting point in the child’s development.
Each child has an ‘Online Learning Journal’ Tapestry, which is a wonderful record of the child’s development whilst at Pre-School. These ‘Online Learning Journals’ are completed by your child’s Key Person and show photographs, videos and detailed notes, which form a comprehensive record of your child’s development.
Parents are encouraged to add their own observations online and comment on preschools. Your child’s Key Person will explain how you can do this in more detail during your Pre-School induction visit.