Early Years Foundation Stage

Children are active learners, eager to discover and interact with people who share their lives.  At Pavilion Preparatory Kindergarten our aim is to support each child’s natural curiosity by providing a wide range of experiences, combined with plenty of positive interactions with well-trained practitioners.

Curriculum

We fully embrace the ethos that the curriculum should be child centred. We respect their individual interests and learning styles and ensure the curriculum is developmentally appropriate.

We offer a range of carefully balanced experiences that focus on:

  • Developing creative thinking
  • Language skills
  • Mathematical and scientific understanding
  • Using imagination
  • Extending physical skills
  • Experiencing books, stories songs and music
  • Practising decision making and problem solving
  • Promoting care and concern for others
  • Respect for the environment as well as opportunities for fun and friendship
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For our youngest infants we offer sensitive baby care through the individual attention of caring staff who nurture their natural curiosity and support development such as learning to feed themselves, learning to crawl or walk and learning to explore the world around them. We follow individual sleep and feeding patterns to maintain consistency with home life and to foster a feeling of security.

For toddlers and older children we offer experiences in a wide variety of play and learning activities building on their natural desire to make relationships, explore and discover. We encourage their developing social awareness, and help their growing self-esteem, self-confidence and independence.

We use careful observations and regular assessments of each child’s development to plan for their play and provide experiences and resources that create a desire to investigate and learn, using their individual interests as our starting points. These findings are documented in their individual Learning Journals and assist us when giving feedback to parents at our pupil progress meetings and end of year summary.