We promote learning by encouraging children’s self esteem and providing opportunities for active learning through play.  Some experiences are structured in accordance with the child’s interests and learning styles and age and stage of development.

We aim to achieve this in several ways.

• Using responsive care and nurturing approaches to promote  individual children’s self-esteem and to build trusting relationships that enable children to develop confidence in their abilities.
• Encouraging discrimination in the use of hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch and movement for physical development and movement. 
• Encouraging an awareness of self and others and of rules and relationships to promote positive behaviour to enhance health and wellbeing.
• Encouraging imagination and an ability to express and develop ideas and feelings in a variety of ways including talking, drawing, painting, movement and gesture and music for communication and language; aesthetic development; creativity and imagination.
• Offering opportunities to understand the environment and to help develop a sense of curiosity for knowledge and understanding of the world.
• Promoting literacy by the use of books and stories, development of listening skills, exposure to print and opportunities to experiment with writing.
• Promoting an understanding of mathematical concepts and skills through the exploration and experimentation of numbers, patterns, sequences and sorting.
• In doing so this will allow our children to become successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective learners.