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Ladybirds
Learning and playing
The Ladybirds enjoy a stimulating environment, with carefully planned experiences and free play. Each child has a key worker who carefully monitors progress and development. By providing a broad range of activities, we cater for your child’s physical, intellectual, educational, social and language needs, instilling children with confidence in their own abilities.
The Early Years Curriculum Activities include:
Sand & water play
This stimulates children’s development in basic mathematical and scientific concepts such as mass, volume and capacity.
Art
We offer a full range of art and craft activities. This encourages creativity and originality. Cutting, sticking, clay, play dough and collage work are enjoyable and develop fine co-ordination skills.
Imaginative Play
We have a wonderful home corner, book car, dressing up clothes, dolls houses and play characters which stimulate fantasy and role play. This develops an understanding of the world and enhances creativity.
Music and Movement
A selectionof musical instruments are used to teach early music. The children are encouraged to participate in and learn musical games and activities which develop co-ordination. We have specialist visiting teacher for Music, Dance and Drama.
Construction Toys
A number of building toys such as Mega blocks and Duplo aids co-ordination and development as well as imagination. This forms the basis of early National Curriculum Technology work.
Early Maths
In an informal atmosphere the children discover and use numbers and letters. Work is planned as activities games and worksheets.
Early English
Children enjoy learning to write letters and words. We use the Letterland system of teaching for the 2 year olds and then at 3 they learn phonetically .
Early Science
This is taught through experience, experiment and observations, such as growing seeds, magnet work and mirrors.
Drama and Music
A specialist Theatre teachers teaches Music, Dance and Drama to the children every Wednesday and Friday. The children love the variety of musical and drama activities and develop confidence in their abilities.
French
The children learn French with an specialist early years linguist every Monday. The children learn through games and fun activities.
