Pre-School
When your child progresses into the pre-school room we provide a range of educational play opportunities to prepare him or her for school and the children experience more independence. For example, they may be able to take advantage of free flow activities between indoor and outdoor environments and bathroom areas.They will be able to further their curiosity about why and how things work by engaging in experiments such as why things float or sink, or why and how do ice cubes melt?
The children will enjoy and engage in ‘Letters and Sounds’ activities to enable them to tune into sounds, listen and remember sounds and talk about sounds. These activities promote general sound discrimination and help to secure a foundation of understanding of sounds before they go to primary school.
Simple numeric skills are developed and children have opportunity to problem solve within their environment and always have access to a numeracy area. Staff endeavour not to miss any learning opportunity when counting, using number or discovering more about shape, space and measure.
Staff also endeavour to engage in sustained shared thinking with the children and this is done through problem solving, working independently and working as a group. We aim for the children to become independent and autonomous learners.
The staff in the pre-school room and across the nursery attend regular training through various training providers and in-house training delivered by Bambinos Early Years Professionals which includes training on Forest School activities
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