Information about Planning

Children at the Nursery are provided with a stimulating learning environment, which encourages learning through play – a fundamental part of early learning.

Good and effective planning is fundamental to children making high levels of progress and incorporating learning through play is key. Short term planning or weekly planning brings together a collection of children’s individual observations, group observations, children’s interest and parents’ contributions. Having all this information will enable us identify and plan activities, experiences, and children’s next steps for the following week.

The EYFS talks about long term and medium term planning and again this is implemented into our planning. The long term planning looks at the learning opportunities for the whole year and may include setting up the learning environment indoor and outdoor, organising areas of the nursery, deciding on core equipment decisions about regular routines and devising a strategy to ensure coverage of the seven areas of learning and development.

The nursery uses the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum (EYFS) and the Montessori Method to plan learning opportunities.

Planning at the nursery reflects the different ways children learn and develop. Our planning helps us understand how children learn and develop. Within the EYFS there are three characteristics of effective teaching and learning, these have been added to highlight that children can achieve any one of these types of learning at any age, they support children’s learning across the whole EYFS and gives us practitioners a clearer focus of what children may be achieving as well as the development matters.

At the nursery, we look closely at our areas of provision both indoors and outdoors and regularly monitor and evaluate them, this allows us to enhance the areas based on the children’s interest and adapt our environment accordingly.