At Little Wrens Nursery we follow the curriculum for the Early Years Foundation Stage, which is divided into seven areas of learning:

· personal, social and emotional development

· communication and language

· physical development

· literacy

· mathematics

· understanding of the world

· expressive arts and design.

Whilst all areas of learning and development are important and interconnected, three areas are particularly crucial for igniting children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, and for building their capacity to learn, form relationships and thrive. These three areas, the prime areas, are:

· personal, social and emotional development

· communication and language

· physical development.

We are very lucky to be able to learn through using Forest School.

All year the children will be able to explore Forest School as Emma, our Nursery teacher, is a qualified Forest School leader.

Phonics in Nursery

At Little Wrens, we support children to develop their listening and sound discriminations skills. We do this by playing lots of listening games, playing musical instruments, singing, learning simple rhymes and generally having fun with sounds. In the summer before they enter Reception we follow our Read, Write Inc scheme each day. This learning build the foundations of the phonics learning that children will do in Reception and Year 1. There is more information about this early phonics learning in the links and documents below.