Curriculum

Goldilocks Day Nursery Spiral Curriculum

At Goldilocks we strive to ensure that all children are ready for the next stage in their educational journey relative to their personal development. (Intent)

We do this by: - Implementation.

• Effectively implementing the Early Years foundation stage framework, across all 5 base rooms within the nursery.  Have a robust Key person system.
• Using our knowledge of children characteristics of effective learning to ensure activities are tailored to their learning style, as well as their next steps.
• Working closely with parents.
• Provide a broad range of stimulating activities and environments both indoors and outside to effectively challenge the children in line with their stage of development.
• We support for our workforce to have a greater understanding of the children in our care, child development, and practices that support effective outcomes.
• We use individual checkpoints to see how well the individual children are learning, development brackets outlined in Development Matters.
• We use effective safeguarding practices and SEND knowledge to offer timely support for children and families who may require it. Including regular staff training
• Implementation of Prevent and British Values to keep the children safe.
• We routinely audit and evaluate the provision to ensure we offer the best opportunities for the children consistently.
• Work closely with schools and LA to ensure we are up to date with the criteria for children who start school each academic year.
• Robust Staff supervisions, training, and peer observations
• Staying up with date, with new ideas, changes to EYFS, and legislations
• Offering a good balance of play, learning and rest
• Not missing opportunities to offer teaching to the children.
• Providing the same opportunities to all children who attend.
• Teach the children to keep themselves safe, through self-reassessing through play, stranger dangers and keeping themselves safe online.

How do we know we are achieving this? - Impact!

• Children are continually developing at a rate that is expected for them as individual.
• There are consistently lots of exciting and challenging activities happening both inside and outside throughout the day for children to engage with
• Staff offer quality and meaningful interaction with children throughout each day.
• Positive feedback from parent, children, and staff questionnaires
• Feedback from outside professionals, LA, and schools
• Achieving a “met “criteria on internal audits.
• The children are in our setting present as happy and having good relationships with staff across the nursery.

Impact! – Children who are effectively making good progress in their learning and make good progress in their own personal development journey.