Early Years Care and Learning
Aims
At Huggie Bears Family Childcare, the quality of care and early learning as well as the happiness of your child is our main concern. We feel that enjoyable and interesting experiences are the key to positive attitudes towards learning, so the emphasis is on learning through play.
A wide range of toys and resources are available to encourage the children to reach their full potential. Observations of the children are undertaken during their play to enable the staff to plan activities based on their interests and to widen their knowledge.
Our daily activities are based on the 4 themes of the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework namely, a "Unique Child", "Positive Relationships", "Enabling Environment" and "Physical Development", and cover the 7 areas of learning which are divided into two distinct areas:
Prime Areas of Learning
1. Communication, language and literacy
2. Physical development
3. Personal, social and emotional development
Specific Areas of Learning
1. Literacy
2. Mathemathics
3. Understanding the World
4. Expressive Arts and Design
By covering these we aim to achieve the following Every Child Matters outcomes:
- Being healthy
- Staying safe
- Enjoying and achieving
- Making positive contributions
- Economic well-being
Our aim is to promote a learning environment both indoors and outdoors to give children the ability to go on the next stage confidently when it is time for them to leave for "big school".