EYFS

ENABLING ENVIRONMENT AND CONTINUOUS PROVISION

At Easy Peasy Nursery children work in groups with a Key Person as well as having the opportunity to learn and play following their own interests in the environment with adults supporting and working alongside.
Nursery staff works closely with children to develop positive attitudes to learning through play across a broad and balanced curriculum.
Children learn to be independent, work alongside and to play with other children, take turns, share and listen with others.
With adults working along-side them children are encouraged to explore, investigate, think creatively and problem solve.
Children are encouraged to be confident to talk with peers and adults, to say how they feel, and to do things for themselves.
Children have daily access to the inside and outside environment where there is an opportunity to explore a range of experiences for learning including:-

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Helping children develop confidence and independence as they play and
explore; learning to follow the daily routine and understand rules and expectations
for appropriate behavior; understanding their own feelings and
developing respect for others.

Communication and Language

Developing listening and attention skills; learning to distinguish between sounds.
Joining in with and learning rhymes and songs.
Developing understanding and talking, through broadening vocabulary, and using longer and more complex sentences, as well as responding to and asking questions

Physical Development

Encouraging confidence in exploring different ways of moving individually and in a group with increasing control e.g. using wheeled toys, exploring construction equipment, small games equipment e.g. ball play climbing, balancing and tunneling play, den building;
Supporting children to explore opportunities for holding and using large and small equipment for making marks and joining materials.
Encouraging understanding of how their bodies work developing independence in self-care

Literacy

Encouraging interest in looking at and talking about books; learning how to use and handle books; developing enjoyment in listening to stories and reading.
Supporting children joining in and remembering rhymes.
Developing interest in mark-making and writing so they give meaning to the marks they make

Maths

Encouraging enjoyment, understanding, and awareness of numbers and counting through practical activities rhymes, and real experiences.
Exploring and talking about shapes and measures. Opportunities for problem-solving.

Understanding The World

Investigative play - texture play e.g.- sand/water/mud/playdough. Finding out and exploring the environment and the world through their senses. Talking about their observations and asking questions. Using and exploring ICT. Talking about people and the community

Expressive Art and Design

Role and imaginary play, exploring materials and media in messy play, painting, construction, and malleable materials, exploring and responding to music and sounds
In addition, facilities are provided for:

Cooking, snacks and meals, and sleeping if children require asleep in the day.

(EYFS CONT...) ENABLING ENVIRONMENT AND CONTINUOUS PROVISION

The Nursery classrooms are surrounded by safe and enclosed outside areas which are landscaped with grass, safe play surfaces, and tarmac. This provides an opportunity for taking learning and development outside.

The Nursery environment includes:

A range of bikes and trucks for a specifically designed roadway

sand, water, and mud kitchen play for exploring and combining materials.

Role play areas and small world areas
Hills for running and climbing
Large adventure climbing apparatus with the safe surfacing
Construction apparatus for building
Opportunities for exploring and using ICT equipment
Opportunities for planting, growing, and harvesting produce
Safe shaded areas for all weather protection
Music and sound exploration
Reading dens
Opportunities to develop number and
Awareness of shape and measure
Opportunities to develop mark-making, drawing, and writing with a range of resources
Opportunities for exploration and investigation
Opportunities to explore media and materials e.g. paint, malleable materials, glue

The Nursery environment indoor and out-doors is organised into areas which allow children to learn through play.
Areas are clearly organised and labelled to enable children to learn where things are so they can independently access resources for themselves and learn to tidy them away.
We promote health and safety at all times through modelling and interactions with children.
Areas are bright, attractive and stimulating, displaying children’s current activities, pictures, photographs and words. We encourage children to feel that what they do is valued and we display a range of their work.
Through providing first-hand experience, pictures, artefacts, photographs, resources and activities we provide a rich and stimulating environment, in which children feel safe secure and cannot help but play, explore and learn