Second Term (Under 3s)
WE WOULD EXPECT CHILDREN TO:
- Continue to develop the skills to work cooperatively with others
- Develop the ability to share equipment and take turns
- Become more confident in communicating using gestures or language with their key worker and other adults
- Gain confidence in communicating with their peers
- Gain more confidence in communicating with others in their home language and in English
- Know who their key worker is and which story group they attend
- Show some understanding of routines and begin to anticipate daily events
- Use a wider vocabulary to describe and communicate their needs and ideas
- Continue to develop the confidence to say, “NO!” assertively with words or/and gestures
- Continue to develop positive social relationships with their peers
- Develop a broader interest in the outside and indoor environments
- Become more independent following routines
- Take more responsibility for their own self-care (toileting, hanging up coats, washing hands etc.)
- Begin to develop the skills to be socially competent within a small group
- Develop play-joining skills to interact positively with their peers
- Begin to discriminate and name sounds in the environment
- Begin to develop more control over their large body movements
- Begin to develop finer coordinated use of muscles e.g. pincer grip etc.
- Develop the confidence to risk-take and manage their own risks
- Begin to use a wider mathematical vocabulary in their play
- Begin to develop a sense of awe and wonder
- Explore a wider range of media, art resources and music
HOW WILL THIS LOOK?
- Dual language books can be borrowed by the children
- Attention Hillingdon offered to children who require a visual programme to make links in language
- Social skills group for children who find it difficult to take turns and share
- Practitioners scaffold children’s language – build on their understanding and broaden children’s exposure to new vocabulary
- Encourage children to make broader choices
- Trips to local places of interest in our minibus