Curriculum

The Nursery staff plan an exciting and challenging curriculum based on their observations of all the children’s needs, interests and developments across the seven areas of learning. This allows the children to work towards the end of Early Years Foundation Stage expectations (the Early Learning Goals - ELGs). All seven areas of learning and development are important and are interconnected.

In the Nursery, play is used as a vehicle for learning and provides opportunities for children to engage in activities that are both adult-led and child-initiated. In addition to play opportunities, the children will have whole group and small group sessions which are led by an adult.

A typical day in Nursery

Every day in Nursery is different, but this is an outline of a typical session:

Morning only	All day children	Afternoon only
8.30 am - 8.50 am Flexible drop off due to siblings also being taken to school
8.50 am Registration, calendar
8.55 am Phonics session
9.15 am Directed Play through continuous provision both inside and outside. Adult-led activities are provided during this time
11.10 am Story time / picture of the week
11.30 am Session finished, home time	11.30 am Lunchtime
		12.35 pm Drop off
	12.40 pm - Registration, calendar
	12.55 pm Phonics session
	1.15 pm Directed Play through continuous provision both inside and outside. Adult-led activities are provided during this time
	3.10 pm Story time, picture of the week
	3.15 pm Nursery session ends Flexible collection due to siblings also being collected from school