Our Daily Routine

8.30 am Pre School Opens
8.45 am to 9.15am - Breakfast
9.30 am Morning session children enter and place coats on hooks and bags on box
9.40 am Morning Circle Time
9.55 am Free flow play between the inside and outside area. Individual planning is completed
10.30 am to 11.00 Snack Time
11.00 to 11.30 Focus activity (11.00-12..00) alongside Free Flow play
11.30 Tidy up time
12.00 Musical movement activities and games
12.20. Coats on and sing the goodbye song to the children who finish at 12.30 Home time and afternoon children have their lunch
1.30 Free Flow play / focused activity
2.30 tidy up time
3.00 Milk and End of Day Story session circle time
3.30 Home time for 3.30 children
3.30 -4.30 Golden Hour Child centred choice and individual planning

Individual Planning
Every child has observations done whether they are short or long and next steps prescribed in order to scaffold children onto their next steps. During playtime staff will complete individual planning which ensures next steps are completed.
Focused Activities
Focused Activities are focused on supporting areas of the EYFS as a whole for the entire group of children to learn a set of skills. Activities are differentiated between all children according to age and ability.
Our yearly planner for Focussed Activities concentrations
September - Personal Social Emotional development
October - Physical Development and literacy
November - Communication and Language and Expressive arts and design
December - Understanding of World and Expressive arts and design
January - Understanding World and personal social and emotional development
February - Mathmatical development and Communication and language
March - Expressive Arts and Design and Physical development
April - Understanding of the world and Physical development
May - communication and language and personal social and emotional development
June - Literacy Development and Mathmatical Development
July - Transitions and literacy and Mathmatical Development
Some examples of some Key skills that our Focused activities promote
Personal social and Emotional Development
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Teach children to recognise emotions
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Teach children core skills such as sharing and taking turns
Communication and language development
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Exploring a range of words nouns and adjectives
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Explore descriptive language
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Explore a range of sounds for sound discrimination.
Physical Development
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Fine manipulative skills
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Gross manipulative skills
Literacy development
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Children learn to recognise their name
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Children learn to mark make letters from their name
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Children learn to discriminate between sounds
Mathmatical development
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Can count to 10
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Can Count to 20
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Explore 2d and 3d shapes
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Explore different ways of measuring
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Explore volume
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Explore size and the language of comparatives for example small, smaller, smallest
Expressive arts and Design
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Explore a range of media collage for example, paints, crayons, chalks, pastels
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Explore imaginative role play
Understanding of the world
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Explore people and communities traditions around the world
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Explore a range of technology and its uses.
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Explore the natural environment around them including animals and insects and


