The Curriculum
Bambino Day Nursery follows the Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage. This Curriculum identifies ‘The Stepping Stones’ of progress, in all six areas of learning, which leads to the ‘Early Learning Goals’. These are the goals, which describe what children should know and be able to do by the time they are five years old.
There are six areas of learning:-
Personal and Social and Emotional Development
Focuses on children learning how to work, play and co-operate with both adults and their peers by sharing equipment and taking turns. Staff promote the children' self esteem by valuing and praising their efforts and achievements.
Communication, Language and Literacy
Focuses on children developing skills in talking about their experiences and listening to music, stories, rhymes and each other and using a variety of media to encourage emergent writing and reading skills. The children are encouraged to express their thoughts and imagination when taking part in role-play, which is extended by good adult interaction.
Mathematical Development
Focuses on understanding mathematical language such as shape, size, colour, position and quantity and helps the children to develop problem solving skills. Children are given the opportunity to experiment with numbers 1 to 10 and larger.
Creative Development
Focuses on the children using their imagination to express and communicate their thoughts, ideas and feelings. The children have very good opportunities to try different artistic techniques and create work, which is valued and displayed around the room. Being creative enables children to make connections between one area of learning and another and so extend their understanding.
Physical Development
Focuses on developing skills of coordination, control, manipulation and movement. Outdoor activities are used to enable the children to develop good muscle strength and an awareness of space. Indoor activities allow the children to manipulate a variety of tools to become manually dexterous. Effective physical development helps children develop a positive sense of well being.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Focuses on developing the crucial knowledge, skills and understanding to help them make sense of the world. The children are given the opportunities to explore and recognise features of living things and observe similarities, differences and changes in the environment. The children have the opportunity to observe changes through their 'Topic Work', about Weather, Homes and Life Cycles.