{"id":10,"date":"2022-06-23T15:08:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T15:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barleyhurstparkandmelrosepreschool.co.uk\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2024-11-18T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T15:05:20","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/barleyhurstparkandmelrosepreschool.co.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Welcome to Melrose Pre-school<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Our intent, our overarching goals<\/u><\/strong><\/p>

A Melrose Preschool child is a confident, independent learner, that feels \u2018ready to take on the world\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>

A Melrose Preschool child:<\/p>

  • can make friends<\/li>
  • communicates effectively<\/li>
  • is fascinated and motivated to learn<\/li><\/ul>

    They feel safe, secure, loved and part of our \u2018Melrose\u2019 family.<\/p>

    We believe that by offering every child this solid EYFS foundation, we are supporting children to become lifelong learners, excited by the possibilities ahead of them.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Curriculum Implementation<\/strong><\/p>

    We are passionate that all children reach their full, unique potential alongside their peers.\u00a0 Our aim is to equip every unique child with their own \u2018essential toolkit\u2019, so that whenever they leave us, they are ready for their next stage of education, confident to \u2018take on the world\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

    We make our children feel safe and secure enabling a positive and confident attitude to learning. We see our pre-school as an extension of your family and want to give children a welcoming, caring, nurturing environment in which to grow and learn.\u00a0 We see every child as an individual and underpin the fundamental British Values into all aspects of our play.<\/p>

    We understand that every child is unique and we support children to make progress from their individual starting points, so that by the time they leave us they are able to make friends, communicate effectively and are ready to continue to enjoy their learning. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

    Our staff pride themselves on knowing their key children- their interests, their family and their community.\u00a0 They understand the ways in which they learn best and what your child needs to do to help them achieve their next stages of development.\u00a0 We build on their existing knowledge and interests and develop their experiences of the world around them.\u00a0 There is a strong emphasis on speech and language and want our children to learn in a vocabulary- rich environment.\u00a0 We understand the importance of developing early language in younger years and acknowledge the benefits of this as children progress into adulthood. As a setting, we are committed to raising outcomes for every child and support the government\u2019s pledge to half the attainment gap in communication and reading that currently exists nationally at the end of the Reception Year.<\/p>

    Our ambitious curriculum is central to ensuring that by the time children leave us for reception; they will have had the necessary exposure, experiences and support ready for their next stage of education.<\/p>

    Each educational programme offers children the opportunity to experience the world around them in a way that is interesting to the unique child. Please see below for further information on what this looks like.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    We also support children in four specific areas, through which the three prime areas are strengthened and applied. These specific areas are:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Literacy<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    We are passionate about fostering a love of books with our children. By the time children leave us, all of our children will be ready to become confident readers and writers.
    We do this by our enjoyment of reading and including the children in the story telling by using books where the children can join in all the parts they know and we often use the stories within our play so the children can extend the stories. Children are given access to a wide range of carefully considered reading materials including books, poems, newspapers and magazines we use media with different languages so the children can explore written materials to ignite their interest. We encourage our children to link sounds and letters and to begin to read and write.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Mathematics<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Children are given opportunities to develop and improve their number skills.\u00a0 This includes counting, understanding and use of numbers, calculating simple addition and subtraction problems.\u00a0 We also include shapes, spaces and measure.<\/p>

    By the time children leave us, our children will be confident mathematicians.
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    Understanding the world<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Children learn to make sense of the world and communities in which we live, and those beyond. \u00a0This is achieved by giving them opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology and the environment<\/p>

    By the time children leave us, our children will be confident explorers and investigators because we offer various opportunities to explore with the tools they may need to do it.<\/p>

    \u00a0Outside we have bug magnifying glasses, bug catches we have shovels for the children to dig in the mud to explore the natural world and then we use technology to follow up their finding by watching short clips on how the worm or the spiders build their homes to give them a further understanding of the animals they have found.<\/p>

    We plant our own potatoes and vegetables and when they are ready to be harvested we use them within our snack so the children have an in depth understanding of where their food comes from this includes the process of making our own butter and regularly giving the children the opportunity to cook and take their bits home with them so they are able to talk to their family about the process.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Expressive arts and design<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Children are encouraged to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials, as well as providing opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play, and design and technology.<\/p>

    By the time children leave us, our children will be confident actors, artists and musicians.
    We do this by encouraging their play and imagination by providing them with the equipment and tools they need. Our home corner has themes that are changed regularly with all the tools to ignite their minds, staff will observe but the children use this are to explore and build on role play using their own experiences, their favourite themes are hairdressers, doctors and farm shops where they have real fruit and vegetables, scales paper bags tills and money this will often be extended to another area of the setting where they will make dinner for their friends. These opportunities are offered both inside and outside.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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