Curriculum

Here at Banana Moon Day Nursery, we offer a play based day with hidden learning!!

We provide well planned experiences indoors and outdoors based on each individual child’s interests. Our staff team will support all children to learn with enjoyment and challenge, having a balance of child initiated and adult led play based activities.

We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (aka the EYFS) which is a statutory framework, covering learning and development from the day your child is born until the end of their first year at school. Banana Moon Day Nursery provides all children with a firm foundation on which to build future academic, social and emotional success. We do this by ensuring the Early Years Foundation Stage themes are embedded in all aspects of what we do. The four themes are as follows:

The four themes are as follows:

• Unique Child - every child is a competent learner, from birth who can be resilient, capable, confident and self assured

• Enabling Environments - the environment plays a key role on sup porting and extending children’s development and learning.

• Learning and Development - children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates and all areas of Learning and Development are equally important and interconnected. There are six areas of learning and development: Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Communication, Language and Literacy, Physical Development, Problem Solving, reasoning and Numeracy, Creative Development and Knowledge and Understanding of the World.

At Banana Moon Day Nursery, our routines, activities and nursery environments are designed to enhance these areas, offering them opportunities to play and practice their growing skills, ensuring that every child has an opportunity to learn and develop at a pace that is suitable to them.

We plan, observe and assess your children in each of these areas, allowing us to provide a variety of learning experiences that are not only of interest to them, but building on what they already know!

• Positive Relationships - children learn to be strong and indepen dent from a base of loving and secure relationships with parents and/or a key person.

Building on what they know…..

Practitioners will observe your child on a regular basis to identify and assess the progress they are making – regardless of your child’s age or their attendance pattern at nursery. Observations help practitioners to decide where the children are in their learning and development and to plan what to do next.

Observations and photographs of your child will be placed in their own Learning Journey. This document captures their learning from the first day they start at Banana Moon until the day we say goodbye. We encourage parents and other family members to contribute to this document throughout your child’s time at Banana Moon Day Nursery.