Dovecote pre-school playgroup
A safe, secure, and stimulating educational evironment for your child.
What will your child learn at playgoup?
At Dovecote we deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum. This enables children to experience exciting activities allowing them to learn through play both indoor and outdoors. The EYFS is a coherent and flexible approach to care and learning for children from birth to 5 years based around four themes and each theme is linked to an important principle.
A UNIQUE CHILD
Every child is a competent learner from birth who can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.
POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS
Children learn to be strong and Independent from a base of loving and secure relationships with parents and/or a keyperson.
ENABLING ENVIRONMENTS
The environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children's development and learning.
LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates and all areas of Learning and Developent are equally important and inter-connected.
The areas of learning and Development of the EYFS are
* Personal, Social and Emotional Development
* Communication and Language
* Literacy
* Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
* Understanding the World
* Physical Development
* Expressive Arts and Design
What will we offer to your child?
*Individual care and attention made possible by a high ratio of adult
/children.
* A planned curriculum for each child.
* A family keyperson system.
* A confidential and individual observation and record keeping system which is shared between parent and keyperson.
* A healthy, varied snacktime menu catering for indvidual dietary requirements.
* Qualified, experienced staff.
* Secure, enclosed outdoor play area
* Fun and friendship with adults and children.