Early Learning Goals

From the ages of 0-5 all children at the Tulips Day Nursery follow the Early Years Foundation Stage - the National Curriculum In England for all children from birth until they go into Primary School.

This in turn prepares the children and feeds into the National Curriculum at Key Stage 1 - which is covered at Primary School.

The Early Learning Goals are a series of aims within six areas of a child's development and learning.

1. Personal, social and emotional development, which focuses on the children learning how to work, play share and become more independent in a group other than the family unit.
2. Communication, language and literacy - this covers developing skills in speaking, listening, writing and reading as well as communication with one another.
3. Mathematical development, using ideas relating to numbers, measurement, quantity, shape and space in order to gain basic mathematical skills.
4. Knowledge and understanding of the created world, where children investigate and begin to understand the things, places and people around them.
5. Physical development, relating to improving control and coordination of their bodies.
6. Creative development, where children find ways to communicate using colour, shape, sound, texture, movement and stories.

Although the structured and formal part of your child's day is important we give the unstructured and informal part, such as meal times, talking to each other, and outside play, just as much importance, because during this time your child is continuously learning.