Our Daily Routine
08:30
Preschool Opens
08.30
Breakfast club
9:00 Morning session
Children enter, place coats on hooks and bags in box, free flow play & explore time.
9:30
Morning Circle Time, voting for end of day story, the weather emotions "How do I feel today?" and what we have to play with today.
9:40
Focus activity 2-year-olds & 3-year-olds in separate groups
Free flow play between the inside and outside area.
10:30
Snack Time
10:45
Free flow inside /outside and small group activity in groups of 8
11:45
Tidy up time
11:50
Story time, coats on and sing the goodbye song for morning only children.
12:00
Home time for morning only children.
Wash hands and have lunch for remaining children.
12:30
Quiet play with children - Nursery rhymes, Songs, stories, Yoga, Pilates
13:00
Lunch only children go home
13:00
Engage children - Free Flow play / focused activity
Planned activity i.e. Indoor obstacle course, tents, babies, dressing up, floor is lava, zooming to moon, playdough disco, painting, imaginative games what's the time Mr wolf, rhymes etc.
14:30
Tidy up and snack time
14:50
End of Day Story session
15:00
Home time for pm children
Golden time Child centred choice and individual planning for remaining children
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
