Curriculum

In the Discoverers Room we provide a holistic approach to support your babies learning and development. We incorporate the prime areas– Communication and Language, Personal, Social and Emotional and Physical Development. We make your babies learning journey as fun and as individual as we can by using the information that you have given about your baby and going off their interests. We enable the environment to support their needs so we can make their learning fun, messy and accessible so this then can provide next steps for their learning.

Promoting Personal Social and Emotional Development.

We have a belonging tree in the room where we encourage parents/carers to send photos in of themselves and other special people in their babies lives, we have found this helps with the settling in process. We also have a display board with weekend fun photos, again encouraging parent partnership, sending photos via tapestry or by the nursery email. We encourage to babies to develop their independence by having a basic daily routine to the room (meal, sleep, changing and home times) this helps them develop confidence and trust with the staff and with themselves.

We also provide a daily sheet to go home with parents so they can see what their baby has eaten, when they have slept and nappy changes, this has been a success for information sharing.

Our Communication and Language.

We have a language enriched environment for your babies to learn and develop in while they are with us in nursery, we promote singing using actions and communicate by speech and gestures to your babies. We have a quiet area for looking and reading books and singing action songs with the babies but have an environment where talking and singing is not just allocated to one area.

Supporting Physical Development.

We enable the babies to move freely around the room and outdoors, supporting them at whatever stage they are at and providing equipment to promote their development. We daily have supported activities to develop their gross and fine motor skills using materials such as shaving foam, paint, crayons etc. We have an area which is designed for opened ended play using loose parts so the babies can investigate posting, slotting, building, rolling enhancing their development physically and mentally. We have climbing areas inside and outside and encourage movement in the continuous provision as well as supported activities.

We communicate as a team in Discoverers to make your babies experience at nursery the best it can possibly be for their learning development. We support your baby at whatever stage they are at and give them the best possible outcome for them to proceed to their next steps of development.