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Curriculum

The Learning Experiences

Children will benefit from the full range of learning opportunities as outlined in the Early Years Foundation Stage. The EYFS curriculum is set out by the Department for Education and identifies three Prime Areas of learning and development for children aged up to 3.

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The Prime areas are:

  • Personal, Social and Emotional development

  • Communications and Language

  • Physical development

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For those aged 3 to 5 years, these are supplemented by four further Specific Areas:

We use EYFS curriculum and associated guidance combined with our detailed observations of individual children to plan sessions which challenge and stimulate all members of the group and help them work towards developmental milestones in each of these areas.

 

Whole group activities are supplemented by small group and one-on-one work on a daily basis and activities take place both inside and outside. Our unique experience means that we can provide children with enjoyable Music, Arts and Physical Play activities as part of their daily routine.

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Our nursery has adopted the Curiosity and Play approach to learning. We have taking inspiration from the Reggio Emilia method and the years of experience of working with children as they learnt through play activities in the Gymboree Play centre.

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S.T.E.A.M EDUCATION

We have adapted STEAM into our everyday curriculum. STEAM is a neat little acronym for Science Technology Engineering Art & Math.

 

It supports an array of valuable lifelong learning skills. We want to allow children to be engineers, architects, scientists, artists, and mathematicians. Igniting a sense of discovery as children experience scientific, engineering, and mathematical skills in their play.

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Through incorporating aspects of STEAM into play, children can be encouraged to:

  • Show curiosity and a ‘can do’ attitude

  • Seek challenges and enjoy meeting challenges

  • Think of ideas and find new ways of doing things

  • Solve problems

  • Make links, predictions, estimates, and hypothesise

  • Notice patterns

  • Test their ideas

  • Plan and make decisions about how to approach a task

  • Be able to change strategy and review their approach

  • Communicate, collaborate and make compromises

 

You may have noticed that all of the above are in fact aspects of the Early Years Foundation Stage Characteristics of Effective Learning. STEAM, therefore, goes hand in hand with the values of the early years.

At AHN we provoke our children with opportunities to investigate, explore, and be curious, we will empower them to become effective learners. Our early years environment is created with an ethos for exploration and play that supports children in the early exploration of science, technology, engineering, art and math and develop the essential dispositions for lifelong learning.

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