I belong, I connect to the wider world
Our Curriculum Promise “I belong and can contribute to a group” means we have been supporting children to feel really safe and secure in their new room.
For some children these changes take time to feel comfortable with, don’t they?
We’ve been really wanting children to have an attachment to a special adult who greets them and claims them each day.
And for the children to use this special adult to support their emotional well-being, regulation, and learning.
We’ve given the children lots of opportunities and spaces to cuddle up with stories – feeling close and cosy, safe and settled.
And to talk about their PERSONAL HISTORIES, sharing conversations about their families, making connections between nursery, their families, the wider world – using mark making and “drawing the talk” to represent treasured families!
Creativity and Connections, Playing with Sounds and Songs, Cutting and Cooking
Have you been to our Music Room?
Have you played our piano or keyboard?
We’ve been exploring sounds and songs together, building connections with each other as we collaborate in music and song.
Have you been to our Children’s Kitchen?
To make and bake, cut and cook together?
We’ve been developing our knife skills and kitchen skills to “cook up” fruit salads and fruit kebabs!
By being in and contributing to a group we have been finding out about each other, find out about how it feels to share spaces and experiences with each other.
The Familiar and The Novel
Each child’s keyperson provides them with a secure base for them to return to and explore from.
And so does a familiar environment, that helps them make links and connections between home and nursery, such as the Home Corner.
This popular space in Early Years 2 has helped children feel connected to their own home and their experiences there, as well as giving them an opportunity to try our roles of carer and looking after babies – often working out those sometimes tricky emotions when it’s time for goodbye.
The children have not only needed the “familiar” sense of home and family, but have sought out new and novel experiences, like finding our all about worms in the wormery, and POPPING bubbles in the park!
What incredible scientists and researchers they have been – full of fascinating curiosity and questions!
Our Curriculum Promise “I use all my senses to engage in scientific enquiry” has helped us think about the questions children ask and their explorations using all their senses, communicating ( sometimes without words ) what they have noticed as they’ve carefully observed the worms or see the bubbles whipped away by the wind!
What do you notice when you find a worm in the soil?
What do you notice when you hold a worm gently in the palm of your hand?
Can you blow as many bubbles as you can?
What do you notice as they take off into the air?
