Curriculum

Physical Development

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Physical activity is vital in children’s all-round development, enabling them to pursue happy, healthy and active lives. Gross and fine motor experiences develop incrementally throughout early childhood, starting with sensory explorations and the development of a child’s strength, co-ordination and positional awareness through tummy time, crawling and play movement with both objects and adults. By creating games and providing opportunities for play both indoors and outdoors, adults can support children to develop their core strength, stability, balance, spatial awareness, co-ordination and agility.

Personal, Social and
Emotional Development

Children’s personal, social and emotional development (PSED) is crucial for children to lead healthy and happy lives, and is fundamental to their cognitive development. Underpinning their personal development are the important attachments that shape their social world. Strong, warm and supportive relationships with adults enable children to learn how to understand their own feelings and those of others

Mathematics

Developing a strong grounding in number is essential so that all children develop the necessary building blocks to excel mathematically. Children should be able to count confidently, develop a deep understanding of the numbers to 10, the relationships between them and the patterns within those numbers.

Understanding the World

Understanding the world involves guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community. The frequency and range of children’s personal experiences increases their knowledge and sense of the world around them – from visiting parks, libraries and museums to meeting important members of society such as police officers, nurses and firefighters.

Communication and Language

The development of children’s spoken language underpins all seven areas of learning and development. Children’s back-and-forth interactions from an early age form the foundations for language and cognitive development. The number and quality of the conversations they have with adults and peers throughout the day in a language-rich environment is crucial.

Expressive Arts and Design

The development of children’s artistic and cultural awareness supports their imagination and creativity. It is important that children have regular opportunities to engage with the arts, enabling them to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials.

Laura is our Curriculum Lead

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Laura works in collaboration with the Nursery Manager and provides direction and leadership across the setting, ensuring the implementation of exemplary and inspirational practice. This includes supporting practitioners to ensure every individual child reaches their full potential.

Laura is responsible for monitoring the planning, observation and assessment of the EYFS curriculum in all rooms and acts as a mentor to all practitioners within the nursery, modelling the skills and behaviours that safeguard and promote good outcomes for all children.

"Melita loves her time at the nursery, she gets up to all sorts of different and imaginative things every day. She has developed so much over the last few years and a lot of that has come from the time and effort that the nursery puts in each an every day. All the girls are really friendly, and they put a lot of effort into caring for the children. Laura, Ash, Frankie and the rest of the team are amazing. Would definitely recommend to other parents in the area."

"We love CRDN! They are like second family! Both our boys love it here! And we love the ease and assurance our boys are being looked after in a child centred child focused environment where my children form real bonds and real relationships with Staff."

"We have two children at Canterbury Road and are extremely happy with the nursery. When our youngest daughter started in September 2020, she had been in lockdown for most of her life and, as a result, was very wary of new people and places. However, the practitioners were incredibly patient and attentive to her emotional needs and she soon settled in and formed strong relationships with them. We would recommend Canterbury Road to anyone looking for a caring and family focused nursery."

"I chose your nursery because my daughter loves being outside. She has a curious mind and really thrives from outdoor activities such as waterplay, bug hunting, climbing and riding bikes. In addition to this she has endless energy and I felt she would never get bored with all the the learning activities and how they are delivered by staff in such an enthusiastic way."