About Us
About Us
Our Ethos
We believe that children learn best when they are interested and have time to develop and explore. We follow their interests by asking them what they want to do every day. The staff team are trained to support children ‘In the moment’ and we have fully equipped rooms so staff can provide resources quickly capturing interests and extending learning.
Staff will note children’s interests when in play and use this information to support learning under the Early Years Foundation Stage guidelines. We have chosen to follow the Development Matters framework to assess children’s knowledge, understanding and development. We focus on the three prime areas initially and believe children need these prime areas fully secured before focusing on the Specific areas of development such as Maths and Literacy.
We believe in developing a children’s creativity and curiosity and support them to be independent and self-confident. We do this by not doing things for children when they can do things for themselves.
Our Mission Statement
Here at Little Rainbows Nursery & Preschool we want all our children to grow to be excellent communicators, who are self-confident, resilient and have good self-esteem. We want to develop their creative minds to enable them to be active learners and be independent thinkers. Our children will be kind and caring towards others, understand differences and be tolerant of them. We want our children to live healthy, active lives and be respectful of their environment and community.
How We Achieve Our Mission Statement
We aim to achieve this by following this curriculum:
Excellent Communicators
- Eye contact and eye level interactions
- Listening and ‘serve and return’ interactions
- Lots of conversation and Talking
- Nonverbal ‘tuning in’
- Modelling correct speech
- Play with running commentary
- Use wide range of activities and resources to support communication e.g. singing, storytelling, roleplay, and puppets
Self Confidence, self-esteem, and resilience
- Scaffolding when challenges occur
- Praise
- Positive comments
- Recognition
- Value the small achievements
- Displaying and celebrating achievements
- Responsibilities for the children
- Making own decisions and choices
- Helping others less able.
- Teaching adults
Creative Thinkers
- Setting high expectations
- Setting challenges
- Adults not being the experts/not always having the answer
- Learning together
- Interests are deeply explored
- Lots of open-ended questions to gain deeper understanding
Be Healthy
- Make healthy choices with what they eat – balanced menu’s
- Savoury before sweet
- Try it once!
- Physical play – lots of space outside to run, climb and explore
- Mindfulness
Kind and Caring towards others
- All having respectful interactions
- Tolerance of differences
- Rules and Boundaries followed and are consistent
- Challenging bias
- Celebrating different cultures and diverse backgrounds
- Knowledge of own community and wider world
- Respectful of others and the environment
- Manners – use them when interacting
- Understanding when to listen and manage interruptions – ‘hold my hand’
- Looking after our resources – use of real items
- Tidy up time
- Nature garden – learn of nature and animals
- Intergenerational – work with dementia society
Active learners and Independent
- Not doing things that children can do themselves
- Giving time for children to be independent – patience
- Modelling and supporting children to complete tasks
- Praising and encouraging
- Self-selection – choosing things for themselves
- Encouraging exploration and investigation
- Setting up their own play
- Understanding Risks and assessing them for themselves
The Early Years Foundation Stage
The early years foundation stage (EYFS) sets standards for the learning, development and care of your child from birth to 5 years old.
All schools and Ofsted-registered early years providers must follow the EYFS, including childminders, preschools, nurseries and school reception classes.
The EYFS only applies to schools and early years providers in England.
Ofsted
Here at Little Rainbows Community Preschool, we have been awarded GOOD
by Ofsted in March 2023!
Read the report below for more information about the inspection.
