- Listen attentively to others when sharing, thoughts, feelings, ideas and respond appropriately taking part in a conversation, discussion, or debate.
- Use full sentences to engage with others extending vocabulary based on knowledge.
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- Daily opportunities to communicate freely with others and develop and extend skills such as circle time, turn taking activities, and problem-solving games.
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- Children have the right skills to communicate freely, being able to express themselves in a range of ways.
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- Make cherished relationships with others when playing with what they know and build confidence, enabling risk taking.
- Become independent in self-care and make healthy and hygienic choices.
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- Build good relationships by providing a nurturing and safe environment to develop and grow. We give specific praise, role model positive language and promote positive behaviour by following our golden rules. Children are involved in making their own choices.
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- Children have the confidence to be themselves and build and extend relationships as they continue to grow.
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- Be independent in dressing and undressing themselves including own shoes.
- Hold a pen/pencil with control in a dominant hand aiming for tripod grip.
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- Children have their own pegs and shoe boxes to encourage recognition of their belongings. We create activities based around children’s ability to encourage independence. Both our indoor and outdoor environment is set up to promote gross and fine motor skills.
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- Children have full independence for school, being able to change for PE sessions and use the toilet without needing the teachers support.
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- Understand the importance of print in books and be able to identify the structure of a story.
- Recognise letters from their own name and other familiar words.
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- We use our self-registration for the children to find their names and stick them on their key person. A range of books with print and pictures are read by adults and independently by the children.
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- Children are ready for the next stage of writing now they can recognise familiar words and have already started some letter formation.
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- Understand the life cycle of a plant and have care land concern when looking after them.
- Use all five senses to explore the environment and be able to observe similarities and differences in objects, people and places.
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- Plant our own seeds and grow our own vegetables in the garden area. The children water their seeds and observe the change over time.
- We share and discuss experiences providing real life experiences.
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- Show care and concern for living things in the environment and teach others about their knowledge throughout development.
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- Recite numbers in sequence up to 5 and recognise the numerals in print.
- Explore different patterns, noticing when something changes
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- Counting is demonstrated through song, rhyme, flashcards and in our weekly cooking classes. Opportunities are provided with grouping and sequencing with animals, patterns and sorting sets.
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- Children understand securely the early mathematical concepts and when to use them in play.
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- Use imagination to extend role play, create pictures and models and explore materials,
- Express themselves through song, rhyme, and dance. Changing and adapting pitch, sound, and movement
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- Ensure a wide range of resources are always freely accessible including different materials and small world props. We sing a wide range of songs and rhymes and use children’s yoga to express ourselves.
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- Children enjoy creating their own master pieces and use their ideas to practically test things out. Children recognise the sound in words through song and rhyme.
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