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Our Curriculum
At Bright Kiddies Preschool, we believe that the development of children is achieved by making learning attractive and enjoyable. Children are inspired by adult-led and child-initiated activities, which not only include play but educational fundamentals as well.
We follow a broad-based curriculum to ensure each individual child is supported and has a variety of opportunities to learn and develop in all areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). Accordingly, the EYFS Statutory Framework sets the foundation of our curriculum and provides challenges for each child individually whilst preparing them for school, with the aim ‘to bring play and teaching together.’
Prime Areas
We support children to develop a positive sense of themselves, and others and to have confidence in their own abilities; to form positive relationships and develop respect for others; to build social skills and manage their feelings; to understand appropriate behaviour. We encourage this by providing varieties of group and turn taking activities and well-resourced role play area to extend their learning and development.
As children continue to grow, the prime areas will help them to develop skills in the four specific areas. These are mostly used for children over the age of 3 years old but can also be relevant for younger children.
At Bright Kiddies Preschool we encourage and give children the opportunity to experience a rich language environment; to develop their confidence and skills in expressing themselves, speak and listen in a range of situations. We encourage the children to follow instructions connecting ideas or actions. Children are encouraged to use language to investigate and explore, to reflect on their experiences. We achieve this by providing varieties of both cultural and English books, flash cards, pictures and use props and correct words when telling and acting stories.
We encourage and provide the opportunity for children to be active and interactive in other to develop their co-ordination, control and movement. We support them to manage their own personal needs and hygiene including feeding and drinking by themselves, dressing up and attending their toilet needs and making their snacks and food choices.
Specific Areas
At Bright Kiddies Preschool, we provide children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, doing simple calculations and to describe shapes and measures. We encourage this by providing varieties of natural materials and using every day language to compare, describe and talk about time, weight, sizes, patterns, shapes and money.
At bright Kiddies Preschool children are guided to make sense of their physical world and their community through opportunities to observe, explore technology, places and environment. Children are giving opportunities to find out about other people within their community and other cultures, religions, beliefs at large. The children learn and know about similarities and differences between themselves and others and talk about their immediate environments.
At Bright Kiddies Preschool support the children to link sounds and letters and to begin to read and write. They have the access to a varieties reading materials- books must be given access to a wide range of reading materials – books, poems, and other written resources that attract their interest. We encourage children to us great variety of writing materials to develop their skills and understand that writing is a form of communication that has meaning.
This involves enabling children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials, as well as providing opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play, and design and technology.
We enable children to explore a wide range of media and materials, and encourage them to share their thoughts, ideas and feelings through various activities in art, music, dance, role play, and design technology.
At Bright Kiddies Preschool we use outdoor exploration to educate children about the importance of life, living, nurturing and caring. Children are actively involved in growing, loose part play and risk taking outdoors.
At bright Kiddies Preschool each child will begin to build an understanding and knowledge of Science and Outdoor Exploration. As science is a key part of a child’s entire educational journey, we believe in getting children off to a flying start and the outdoor environment is an area in which we encourage the children to feel and be free.
Extra Curricular Activities
French is taught weekly to the toddlers and pre schooler, giving a head starts for them to broaden their knowledge of the world and language.
Our staff Team delivers activities such as cooking activity to develop both the child’s developmental skills and understanding of their diet and healthy eating.
We have varieties of sport/ physical education activities every Friday. We deliver an age-appropriate activities. These sessions benefit the children in many ways, developing their social and physical skills. It also builds their self esteem and encourages them to respect others.
Dance Music session is a fun, interactive session where children sing, dance, play and learn. The songs used within the sessions are positive, uplifting, fun and educational and are unique to the dance Music programme. These sessions support children in gaining confidence and develop memory, language and coordination in an exciting, enjoyable and multi-sensory way.
Mini Bear offers fun, engaging, and interactive musical French/other ethnicity classes for all children. Recognisable songs and nursery rhymes are used throughout the class along with a variety of sensory props, puppets, bubbles, and ribbons to make it even more exciting allowing the other ethnicity language to be brought to life in a fun and familiar way through songs.
Educational theme offers fun to the children. Each week new and fun educational themes such as, colours, shapes, numbers of songs, letters and sign language are introduced. They also use well-known nursery rhymes, games, props, visuals, and action songs to get little bodies jingling along!