Learning
How we provide for Development and Learning
Children start to learn about the world around them from the moment they are born. The care and education offered by Beaches Pre-School helps children to do this by providing all the children with interesting activities that are appropriate for their age and stage of development.
Personal, social and emotional development
This area of children’s development covers:
- Having a positive approach to learning and finding out about the world around them;
- Having confidence in themselves and their ability to do things, and valuing their own achievements;
- Being able to get on, work and make friendships with other people, both children and adults;
- Become aware of- and being able to keep to – the rules which we all need to help us look after ourselves, other people and out environment;
- Being able to dress and undress themselves, and look after their personal hygiene needs; and
- Being able to expect to have their ways of doing things respected and respecting other people’s ways of doing things
Physical development
This area of children’s development covers:
- The gaining control over the large movements that they can make with their arms, legs and bodies, so that they can run, jump, hop, skip, roll, climb, and lift;
- gaining control over the small movements they can make with their arms, wrists and hands, so that they pick and use objects, tools and materials; and
- learning about the importance of – and how to look after – their bodies.
Literacy
This area of children’s development covers:
- listening to – and talking about stories;
- knowing how to handle books and that they can be a source of stories and information;
- getting to know the sounds and letters that make up words we use;
- knowing the purposes for which we use writing; and
- making their own attempts at writing.
Mathematics
This area of children’s development covers:
- building up ideas about how many, how much, how far and how big;
- building up ideas about patterns, the shape of objects and parts of objects, and the amount of space taken up by objects;
- building up ideas about how to use counting to find out how many; and
- being introduced to finding the result of adding more and taking away from the amount we already have.
Understanding the World
This area children’s development covers:
- finding out about the natural world and how it works;
- finding out about the man-made world and how it works;
- learning how to choose- and use- the right tool for a task;
- learning about technology, how to use it and what it can help us to do;
- starting to put together ideas about past and present and the link between them;
- begin to learn about their locally and it special features; and
- learning about their own and other cultures.
Expressive arts and design
This area of children’s development covers:
- using paint, materials, music, dance, words, stories, and role-play to express their ideas and feelings; and
- becoming interested in the way that paint, materials, music, dance, words, stories and role-play can be used to express ideas and feelings.