Rothersthorpe Day Nursery follows the new Early Years Foundation Stage framework from Babies through to Pre-School. The purpose of the Early Years Foundation Stage is to value and celebrate babies and children, recognise their individuality, efforts and achievements, recognise that all children have from birth a need to develop, learning through interaction with people and exploration of the world around them. It identifies following four themes:
- A Unique Child
- Positive Relationships
- Enabling Environments
- Learning and Development
The guidance divides children's learning and development into six areas:
- personal, social and emotional development
- communication, language and literacy
- problem solving, reasoning and numeracy
- knowledge and understanding of the world
- physical development
- creative development
In order to gain the maximum access to and benefit from the new frame work the children are encouraged to be autonomous, to organise their own time and to be in control of their own learning. We recognise that the most valuable learning takes place when children have freedom of choice, and access to sustained activity. They have the choice of the indoor or outdoor provision. The children are encouraged to participate in structured activities as well as self initiated ones.