McMillan Early Childhood Centre - First Term (2 Year Fund Nursery)

First Term

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)