First Term
(2 Year Fund Nursery)
WE WOULD EXPECT A CHILD TO:
- Separate successfully from their parent or main carer
- Develop and form attachments outside their immediate family
- Begin to engage in using the equipment available
- Begin to learn how to work cooperatively with others
- Begin to learn how to share equipment and take turns
- Begin to develop the confidence to communicate using gestures or language with their key worker and other adults
- Begin to communicate with their peers
- Begin to feel more comfortable in communicating with others in their home language and/or in English
- Develop their vocabulary in English
- Begin to develop positive social relationships with their peers
- Begin to take an interest in their environment
- Explore their environment using all their senses
- Develop their curiosity
- Enjoy and want to come to nursery
- Begin to gain the confidence to make their needs known to their key worker or other adults
HOW WILL THIS LOOK?
- Practitioners visit child’s home
- Open Day for children to visit us
- Key workers develop strong relationships with individual children in order to develop secure attachments at school
- Practitioners will act in loco parentis to contain children’s emotions and keep them safe
- All About Me questionnaire so that we know a child’s likes, interests & dislikes
- Settling–in is gradual for those who have separation anxieties
- Establishment of at least one comfortable relationship with an adult will support communication in the wider sense
- Language of sharing is used to support children to take turns using equipment
- Adults model communication skills and support play-joining strategies to support children to make friendships
- Small group sessions for stories to support children in feeling that they belong
- Practitioners who speak other languages to support those who are new to English (small story groups or working individually with children)
- Practitioners modelling simple language and building on children’s vocabulary
- Activities developed from the children’s interests