BABIES, TODDLER ACTIVITIES

Painting, water, sand play, constructional, musical instruments, music, rhymes, singing, stories, soft toys, rattles, physical toys
(balls, beanbags, skittles) small/large equipment, push pull toys.
Your child's creative work i.e. painting, colouring, glueing, will be given to your child at the end of each Nursery/Pre-school session.

However, if your child does not take home a painting, colouring or glueing, your child will have enjoyed other stimulating, explorative or
imaginative play during the session.

 CURRICULUM

The Activities, and the use of play equipment, offer and enable children to develop in an environment free of prejudice and discrimination. Children will be encouraged to explore, acknowledge and value similarities and differences between themselves and others.
Working within the Desirable Learning Outcomes:
Birth - 3 years, 3-5 years.

 SURESTART (BABIES - TODDLERS)

The Framework A Strong Child exploring, friendships, growing awareness, becoming confident, having a role and identity in a group. A Skilful Communicator gaining attention, making contact, exploring, making choices, finding a voice. A Competent Learner making connections, exploring, imitating, becoming playful, discovery, pretend play. A Healthy Child expressing feelings, developing independence, gaining control, learning about rules, acquiring physical skills. All babies and toddlers will be encouraged to explore, respond and engage in fun stimulative play within the Surestart Framework. Personal, Social & Emotional, Development.

Children are encouraged to become confident, build self-esteem, showing self-respect together with forming relationships with both children and adults enabling children to work in small groups and independently to develop their learning and social skills with adult help/direction, if required.

Children are encouraged to be respectful in the needs and feelings of others, expressing their feelings in a good manner, understanding acceptable and unacceptable play and behaviour and right from wrong.

Respecting living things, property and the understanding of the environment, respecting cultural, religious events with feelings sad and happy, acknowledging the understanding of the world.

Children are encouraged to respond to skills, recognition of contents of books, nursery rhymes, developing self help skills.

 PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

Children are encouraged to participate in group games, musical movement, the use of large equipment, sharing and taking turns thus creating 'safe' play, together with undertaking simple skills with adult direction, with actions, developing co-ordination and awareness of space and others.

 CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

To encourage children to explore sound, colour, textures, shapes, including the 5 senses - hear, touch, taste, smell and see, together with developing imaginative play, listening and observing skills through the use of music, dancing and stories, encouraging the use of their imagination, level of concentration through craft, painting and colouring.

 KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD

Children are encouraged to understand and develop knowledge of the environment, where they live, giving news, exploring and recognising living and non-living objects, together with understanding, respecting and comprehending similarities, differences, patterns and change.

Children are encouraged to develop their fine motor manipulative skills by way of cutting, joining, folding and building.

To offer and encourage the use of technology, cassette player, computer, alphabet computer and telephone.

 COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE & LITERACY

To meet the recommendations of the Desirable Learning Outcomes, encouraging & developing children's confidence together with self-esteem with the use of language, encourage the use of books, rhymes, phonics and sounds by way of 1-1, small and large group work, together with developing writing skills with the benefit of worksheets, workbooks, painting, colouring and tracing, taking into account and respecting all individual needs.

 MATHEMATICS

To encourage and develop the recognition of numbers with the use of books, rhymes, games and puzzles, acquiring mathematical skills, counting, recognising shapes (whether in small groups, individually or in pairs). Recognising patterns, sequence, solving practical problems, encouraging awareness of numbers.