Aims and objectives
As Registered Childminders, we will provide a stimulating environment.
We will strive to:
- Provide a safe, secure and stimulating environment for the children in our care
- Provide a variety of stimulating activities which is age age-appropriate for your child
- Follow the EYFS framework
- Encourage creativity, self-expression, and critical thinking through well-thought-out planning
- Encourage and develop language and communication skills, one-to-one interaction, and support children with additional needs
- We aim to be positive role models by promoting social skills, encouraging courteous behaviour, and respecting each other
- Provide a healthy diet, nutritious food and snacks throughout the day and encourage children to learn about healthy eating. We aim to provide a balanced diet for the children, which will cover their dietary needs. Fresh water, milk, fresh fruit bar where children can have access to fruits
Our Ethos
Four key features of Effective Practices
What We Endorse
We at Active2Learn Academy will endorse
“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is free expression of what is in a child’s soul“ Friedrich Froebel.
High Quality Care:
High quality care:
Our key principles respect for the individual nature of the child, their family.
Adapting To Every Child
A responsive to all children’s needs, building on what they already know and can do.
The importance on developing language skills, social and physical development and experimental learning through play.
A Place Where Your Child Can Grow
An environment that supports learning and can be implemented through our curriculum in a holistic way.
Who We Are
We are working alongside Suffolk Childcare Agency. Our experience working with children and families spans over twenty years, so we have a wealth of childcare experience. We both have managed nurseries and have various qualifications in childcare.
As a part of our Pre-Registration with Suffolk Childcare Agency, we successfully completed the process, covering areas of safeguarding and statutory policy training in EYFS. We cover Child Protection, Healthy Eating, Food Hygiene, First Aid, Safer Sleeping, Child Development, and DSL.
Our Hours
Monday to Friday 7.30 am - 6:00 pm
We will take children in an acceptable situation due to availability.
We are not open for Bank Holidays; we provide care for Term Time and full day care subject to availability.
Childminders Holidays are taken within the term time for term time childcare. Full Day children times will be four weeks Holidays.
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Our Curriculum
Our curriculum is guided by the Early Years Foundation Stage. EYFS. We are structured in planning for the children's learning and development. We focus on play-based learning and the seven areas of learning.
At Active2Learn, our curriculum is designed to meet the needs of the children in our care, developing their foundational skills for school readiness. Play-based learning allows the children to learn at their own pace while exploring.
How do we achieve this: By promoting key areas of support and learning, this preparation for school begins at three in our setting, gaining pace for building confidence and working in partnership with the parents for this transition.
Social skill
Self-care
Independence
Routines
Getting dressed and undressed
Health
Mealtimes
Toileting
Physical Development:
Includes gross & fine motor skills like running, jumping, using tools like scissors, and holding a pencil.
Personal and Social:
These focus on building self-confidence, managing feelings, building relationships and learning to interact with others.
Specific areas:
Literacy, develop reading and writing skills, including linking sounds and letters and encourage an interest in books.
Areas of learning:
Prime areas of communication and language encourage speaking, listening, and understanding skills through conversations, storytelling, and nursery rhymes. Focus on the ability to listen, understand and use spoken language.
Mathematics:
Maths provides opportunities to learn numbers, counting, and solving simple problems as well as understanding shapes and sizes and measures, and numerical patterns.
Understanding The World:
We encourage children to explore and make sense of their physical world and community and environment through observation and experimentation.
Expressive Art & Design:
This encourages children to learning, promotes creativity through art, music, movement and imaginative play, allowing children to experiment with materials and express themselves.
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