CHEEKY MONKEYZ

The framework covers the education and care of your child within the early years setting, including children with additional needs.

So what does this mean for you and your child?

The EYFS supports childcare practitioners to provide play experiences that enable your child to expand their knowledge and skills to support their individual learning and development in their early years. As practitioners we recognise your child’s strengths and the areas they may need additional support with. This support may come from within the nursery or from other professionals.

It is important for your child to feel safe and secure in their surroundings, this is aided by having a ‘Key Person’ within the setting who will get to know you and your child well and build a strong and interactive relationship with you both. Your child’s key person is based in your child’s specific room and spends quality time with their key children as individuals and in their group. If your child’s key person is unavailable other practitioners in the room will be able to support you and your child as they will also have a good relationship with you both.

The activities and experiences that we provide for your child will underpin the skills they need to work towards the Early Learning Goals in the following 7 areas:

Prime Areas

• Communication and Language
• Physical Development
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Specific Areas

• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the World
• Expressive Art and Design

Here at K8Z Cheeky Monkeyz Nursery and Creche we recognise that learning and development are important from birth. The 7 areas within the EYFS are all of equal importance, however for children under 3 years old the Prime Areas are our focus. These 3 Prime Areas support your child’s initial skills and give them the basis to develop in the 4 Specific areas when in our Pre-School setting. Our staff are trained towards the highest qualifications in Early Years and use this knowledge and their experience to provide planned activities and projects. We extend your child’s learning through these and your involvement is of the highest importance to achieve this.

In partnership with you as parents, a key person assigned to your child will to plan future activities and projects which relate to children’s current interests, needs and the world around them. This will help develop their independence and life skills for their future. Your child has will development file that includes an individual plan where we record observations, place photographs and other information that is kept as an on-going record of their developmental journey. As a commitment to your child it is important that we regularly meet and discuss your child’s progress and look towards their future next steps.

Tapestry

Here at K8Z’s Cheeky Monkeyz,  we are happy to announce that we have recently started using ‘Tapestry’.

Tapestry is an easy-to-use and secure online learning journal which allows our staff and families celebrate their children’s learning and development. Tapestry allow us to directly communicate with parents to show a very special record of your child’s experiences, development and learning journey through their early years at K8Z’s Cheeky Monkeyz.

To learn more about ‘Tapestry’ please click here.