Intent
‘Inspiring all children to take the first steps in their lifelong learning journey’
At Sticky fingers every child, their family and staff member are valued, we believe in the importance of partnership working, through a culture of listening and communication to enable everyone to achieve their true potential. Our child – centered, nurturing approach delivered in a carefully planned stimulating environment, inspires children to take their first steps in a lifelong learning journey, where children are supported to become independent, resilient, and excellent problem solvers, by learning new skills and developing their knowledge. At Sticky fingers, the children are at the heart of everything we do. We value children’s rights to play, along with respecting everyone, with this we believe that our high-quality care supports all children to achieve their full unique potential. Our carefully planned stimulating and robust continuous provision offers an enabling environment with resources that develop key learning attributes and first-hand experiences, where children can revisit over time.
Personal, social and emotional development
Our calm, nurturing environment, reflects our child centred approach, enabling children to have a sense of self, where they will be independent resilient learners. While we will be sure that all children feel safe, secure, happy confident individuals, we help children to understand and manage their emotions, by supporting them in building towards being able to self-regulate. Through our positive relationships, with children and their families, we build on a child’s emotional wellbeing by forming positive attachments, where children are set up to become positive learners. Our cosy corner gives children the opportunity to explore feelings and empathy towards others.
Communication and language
Our language rich environment provides opportunities for children to express their voice and show understanding by developing their vocabulary to hold back and forth conversations, where they can comment and question with peers and adults. Through role play, group work, talking table and in play, children have opportunities to hear use new words and share ideas. By providing a free flow physically enabling environment, children are given the opportunity to challenge and develop their physical skills indoors and, outdoors, where they will become active learners.
Physical development
By providing a free flow physically enabling environment, children are given the opportunity to challenge and develop their physical skills indoors and, outdoors, where they will become active learners. Children are encouraged to make healthy lifestyle choices, by promoting the importance of a healthy diet, exercise and good oral health, with independence self-care skills. Children are given opportunities to build on pre-writing, fine and gross motor skills in a variety of ways, through manipulative play activities such as dough disco, threading, marking making, while building the strength in wrists and fingers
Literacy
Our teaching and provision to support children’s literacy development is delivered in an enthusiastic and imaginative way. Children are exposed to a range of rhymes and stories, to ignite their interest and passion for books. The daily provision offers children a range of writing opportunities to write for a purpose in play. Through our interactive stories, puppets, print and a range of books such as fact and fiction, sharing diversity and community, children’s comprehension is developed.
Expressive arts and design
By offering a provision where children are able to play and explore, to express themselves through imagination and creativity, offers endless learning opportunities, for children to express what they know, through first-hand experiences. Children are encouraged to demonstrate their world through their thoughts, ideas and feeling. Our environment offers self-selected resources through role play, music and movement and expressive arts which gives open ended opportunities to develop creativity.
Understanding the world
By offering children a curious environment, they are driven to explore and investigate, their natural environment with awe and wonder. Children are encouraged to carefully care for nature and the world around them. Children are encouraged to use their own identity and be proud of their own sense of self and their family cultures.
Mathematics
Our number rich environment promotes a positive attitude towards maths. Within our planned and free play opportunities children are given the chance to use and explore number language. Our sessions support children’s development of time, sequence, measure, and shape. Our timetable and routine of the day includes, counting, number songs, construction building, prewarning sand timers and number lines to give a foundation to early maths.
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