At Rainbow, we recognise that at whatever age a child starts pre-school, they will have different interests and skills and it is our aim to extend those and develop their confidence and learning through play
When your child starts at pre-school their key-person will meet with you to learn more about your child. This provides their starting point for your child’s learning journey throughout pre-school. The Learning Journal is our way of documenting your child’s progress through the Early Years curriculum.
Our learning covers the seven areas development of the EYFS framework:
- Personal, Social & Emotional
- Communication & Language
- Physical
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the World
- Expressive Arts & Design
Discover Our Early Years Foundation
An overview of the EYFS curriculum and its benefits.
Our programme supports children to develop in all these areas:
Personal, Social & Emotional
- positive approaches to learning and finding out about the world around them;
- confidence in themselves and their ability to do things and valuing their own achievements;
- their ability to get on, work and make friendships with other people, both children and adults;
- their awareness of and being able to keep to the rules which we all need to help us look after ourselves, other people and our environment; and
- their ability to expect to have their ways of doing things respected and they learn to respect other people’s ways of doing things
Communication & Language
- conversational skills with one other person , in small groups and in large groups to talk with and listen to others;
- their vocabulary by learning the meaning of – and being able to use – new words;
- their ability to use words to describe their experiences;
- their knowledge of the sounds and letters that make up the words we use; and
- their ability to listen to, and talk about, stories
Physical
- increasing control over the large movements that they can make with their arms, legs and bodies, so that they can run, jump, hop, skip, roll, climb, balance and lift;
- increasing control over the small movements they can make with their arms, wrists and hands so that they can pick up and use objects, tools and materials;
- their ability to dress and undress themselves;
- their ability to look after their personal hygiene and toileting needs; and
- their understanding about the importance of, and how to look after their bodies
Expressive Arts & Design
- The use of paint, materials, music, dance, words, stories and role-play to express their ideas and feelings; and
- their interest in the way that paint, materials, music, dance, words, stories and role-play can be used to express ideas and feelings
Literacy
- knowledge of how to handle books and that they can be a source of stories and information;
- enjoyment of songs, poems, stories and rhymes;
- an ability to recognise familiar words;
- knowledge of the purposes for which we use writing; and
- making their own attempts at recording, mark making and writing
Mathematics
- understanding and ideas about how many, how much, how far and how big;
- understanding of numbers and their order;
- understanding and ideas about patters, the shape of objects and parts of objects, and the amount of space taken up by objects;
- understanding that numbers help us to answer questions about how many, how much, how far and how big;
- understanding that objects can be categorised by their features;
- understanding and ideas about how to use counting to find out how many we already have
Understanding the World
- knowledge about the natural and man-made world and how it works;
- an interest in the significant people and events in their lives;
- their learning about computers, how to use them and what they can help us to do; and
- their learning about their locality and its special features
Learning Journals
We record your child’s development using online learning journals through Kinderly.
Once you have signed up and completed all the necessary security checks you will be able to see observations made by your child’s keyworker. You also have the opportunity to reply to the observation and also send photos from home to support the observation.
It is also very helpful for the keyworker to see photos and descriptions of what your child is doing outside of Rainbow either a new challenge completed, a new pet, days out, holidays, etc.
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