St. Sebastian’s Pre-School Professional, friendly and welcoming pre-school nursery in the heart of Marple Bridge United Reformed Church Hollins Lane Marple Bridge Stockport SK6 5BB Tel 0161 427 8208 Mob 0779 065 5202 Email sebastiannursery@aol.com Manager: Mrs Julie Baines Opening hours (Mon - Fri): Morning session 09.15am - 11.45am Supervised lunch 11.45am - 12.45am Afternoon session 12.45pm - 3.15pm Cost per session: £9.00 (lunch session £3.50) Charity number 520082
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The Early Learning Goals From September 2000 all preschool children will be progressing through the foundation stage of the early learning goals. The foundation stage is the period from the age of three to the end of the reception year. It is a distinct stage and important in its own right, and in preparing children for later schooling. The early learning goals set out what is expected for most children by the end of the foundation year. Early learning goals for personal, social and emotional development By the end of the foundation stage most children will: • Continue to be interested, excited and motivated to learn • Be confident to try new activities, initiate new ideas and speak in a familiar group • Maintain attention, concentration and sit quietly when appropriate • Have a developing awareness of their own needs, views and feelings, and be sensitive to the needs, views and feelings of others • Have a developing respect for their own cultures and beliefs and those of other people • Respond to significant experiences, showing a range of feelings when appropriate • Form good relationships with adults and peers • Work as a part of a group or class, taking turn and sharing fairly, understanding that there is a need to agree on values and codes of behaviour for groups of people, including adults and children, to work together harmoniously • Understand what is right and wrong, and why • Dress and undress independently and manage their own personal hygiene • Select and use activities and resources independently • Consider the consequences of their words and actions for themselves and others • Understand that people have different needs, views, cultures and beliefs which need to be treated with respect • Understand that they can expect others to treat their needs, views and beliefs with respect Early learning goals for communication, language and literacy By the end of the foundation stage, most children will be able to: • Enjoy listening to and using spoken and written language, and readily turn to it in their play and learning • Explore and experiment with sounds, words and texts • Listen with enjoyment and respond to stories, songs and other music, rhymes and poems and make up their own stories, songs, rhymes and poems • Use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences • Use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events • Sustain attentive listening, responding to what they have heard by relevant comments, questions or actions • Interact with others, negotiating plans and activities and taking turns in conversation • Extend their vocabulary, exploring the meanings and sounds of new words • Retell narratives in the correct sequence, drawing on the language patterns of stories • Speak clearly and audibly with confidence and control and show awareness of the listener, for example by their use of conventions such as greetings, 'please' and 'thank you' • Hear and say initial and final sounds in words, and short vowel sounds within words • Link sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet • Read a range of familiar and common words and simple sentences independently • Know that print carries meaning and, in English, is read from left to right and top to bottom • Show an understanding of the elements of stories, such as main character, sequence of events, and openings, and how information can be found in non-fiction texts to answer questions about where, who, why and how • Attempt writing for various purposes, using features of different forms such as lists, stories and instructions • Write their own names and other things such as labels and captions and begin to form simple sentences, sometimes using punctuation • Use their phonic knowledge to write simple regular words and make phonetically plausible attempts at more complex words • Use a pencil and hold it effectively to form recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed. Early learning goals for physical development By the end of the foundation stage, most children will be able to: • Move with confidence, imagination and in safety • Move with control and coordination • Show awareness of space, of themselves and of others • Recognise the importance of keeping healthy and those things which contribute to this • Recognise the changes that happen to their bodies when they are active • Use a range of small and large equipment • Travel around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment • Handle tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control Creative Development By the end of the foundation stage, most children will be able to: • Explore colour, texture, shape, form and space in two and three dimensions • Recognise and explore how sounds can be changed, sing simple songs from memory, recognise repeated sounds and sound patterns and match movements to music • Respond in a variety of ways to what they see, hear, smell, touch and feel • Use their imagination in art and design, music, dance, imaginative and role play and stories • Express and communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings by using a widening range of materials, suitable tools, imaginative and role play, movement, designing and making, and a variety of songs and musical instruments Acknowledgement of reproduction from ‘Curriculum Guidance for the foundation stage’ by the Qualification and Curriculum Authority 2000.