Term Time Pre-school for 3 to 4 year old children.
Funded places available – contact us to find out more.
In Early years education we use the EYFS to under pin everything we do, including the good practice and type of care we provide, as well as the curriculum for children’s learning at this stage of their lives.
Everything the children need to learn within the EYFS can be done in a Forest Nursery setting, including the 7 areas of learning and development:
Prime Areas:
- Physical Development
(gross and fine motor skills, health and well being, recognising their own needs and self-care)
- Personal, social and emotional development
(Playing co-operatively, building self-esteem, recognising the needs of others)
- Communication and Language
(Communicating their thoughts and needs, expanding vocabulary, describing things they see)
Specific Areas:
- Literacy
(mark-making with a purpose, stories, making signs)
- Mathematics
(positional language, counting with a purpose, recognising shapes)
- Understanding the world
(Looking at nature, knowing their community, learning to care for other creatures)
- Expressive Arts and Design
(Creating, using their imagination, planning and solving problems)
We also utilise the characteristics of effective learning in our planning, observations and daily activities
- playing and exploring – children investigate and experience things, and ‘have a go’;
- active learning – children concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties, and enjoy achievements;
- creating and thinking critically – children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things.
The benefits of learning all of this in the outdoors are vast, but ultimately a happy, engaged child will be learning. Outside they can be more expressive, make noise, spill things, run, jump, get messy and be far livelier than in a classroom.
If we can instill in young children a “Zest”
A zest to learn,
A zest to explore
A zest to question
A zest to experiment
A zest to live
A zest to care
A zest to inspire
Then we will be sending a child off to school who is curious and investigative and wants to learn more.