Children's Learning and Development

We practice the Montessori method of education to deliver the “The Early Years Foundation Stage” framework. The Early Years Foundation Stage is based on four key themes and 16 commitments:

A 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 interactions, 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, personalised learning.
• Creativity and Physical Thinking: Making connections, transforming and understanding, sustained shared thinking.
• Areas of Development and Learning