Early Years Principles and Aims
- To provide a welcoming environment for children and their families
- To ensure that all children feel included, secure and valued
- To establish positive relationships with parents
- To keep parents well informed about the curriculum and their child's progress
- To build on what children already know and can do and to celebrate achievement
- To help children make links in their learning
- To stimulate positive attitudes and dispositions to learning
- To encourage independence
- To value children's interests, providing a balance of direct teaching and child initiated activities
- To help children build friendships and learn to co-operate with each other
- To provide a solid foundation in the Prime areas of Learning (Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development) and specific areas of learning
- To make careful observations in order to support and extend children's learning appropriately
- To ensure that children with special educational needs and identified and receive appropriate support