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Yellow Brick Road Nursery is dedicated to taking extra special care of all your child’s early learning needs. We realize each child is special and we will help and encourage your child to learn and develop.
The Nursery learning programmes are planned following the British Foundation Curriculum, Montessori and New Zealand Early Learning - Te Wharaiki.
Our daily lesson plans are arranged to address the six developmental aspects of the child:
 Personal & Social Development
Physical Development
Creative Development
Language and Literacy
Mathematics
Knowledge and Understanding
Young children learn primarily through play, and more so when they feel safe and secure.
Good safe play is: - planned and purposeful - challenging and interesting.
Personal and Social Development
This area focuses on your child’s social and emotional development on how to:
Relate to other children
Gain independence
Establish self-confidence
Show respect for others
Learn self-respect
Co-operate with other children and adults
Function in a group beyond the family
Other new learning areas will be explored, such as:
Initiating ideas and solving simple practical problems
Realizing abilities to demonstrate independence in selecting activities and resources
Understanding of dressing and personal hygiene.
All children are encouraged to learn how to:
Be sensitive to the needs and feelings of others
Show respect for people of other cultures and beliefs.
Take turns and share fairly
Treat living things, property and the environment with care and concern.
Physical Development
Focuses on children’s:
Developing physical control
Mobility - fine and gross motor skills
Awareness of surrounding space
Manipulative skills in indoor and outdoor environments
Establishing positive attitudes towards a healthy and active way of life.
To assist this learning experience, a range of small and large equipment for balancing and climbing is available.
Your child will also learn to handle appropriate tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely, confidently and with increasing control.
Creative Development
Focuses on the development of the children’s:
Imagination
Ability to communicate
To express ideas and feelings in creative ways.
The exploration of sound, color, texture, shape, form, and space in two and three dimensions, allows your child to learn and respond in a variety of ways to what he can see, hear or she, smell, touch and feel.
Your child will show an increasing ability to use imagination, and to listen and observe through:
Art
Music
Dance
Stories
Imaginative play
A varied range of materials, suitable tools, instruments and other resources are available to assist your child to express ideas and to communicate feelings and emotions.
Language and Literacy
This focuses on your child developing the confidence and competence to cover important aspects of language development, and to provide the foundation for literacy.
Your child will learn to:
Acquire competence in the spoken language – talking and listening
Gain pre-reading and writing skills
Know that words and pictures carry meanings
Learn to associate sounds with patterns in rhymes, with syllables, and with words and letters
Recognize his/her own name and other familiar words by learning to recognize letters of the alphabet by shape and sound.
Participation in small and large groups where your child will learn to listen attentively and talk about experiences with the other children will assist in developing your child’s self confidence, these exercises include:
Listening and responding to stories
Singing songs
Reciting nursery rhymes and poems
Making up of own stories and taking part in role-play.
Mathematics
This important aspects of mathematical understanding and the foundation for innumeracy are provided by focusing on achievement through practical and fun activities.
Your child will learn to:
Describe, recognize and recreate shapes, positions, sizes, and quantities.
Opportunity will be given to:
Compare, sort, match, order, sequence and count using everyday objects.
The familiarity of numbers and counting will be learnt through:
Rhymes, songs, stories and counting games.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Your child will learn to explore and recognize features of living things, objects and events in the natural and man-made world and to look closely at similarities, differences and patterns.
We will give your child the opportunities to learn about past, present and future, how things work, what things are made of and what they are for. We will awaken the child’s curiosity by encouraging your child to talk and ask questions about experiences and their observations.
We offer to your child opportunities to explore, to select materials and equipment, and to use skills such as cutting, joining, folding and building for a variety of purposes. Appropriate technology will be used to support your child’s learning, such as the use of digital videos, and tape recorders.
Yellow Brick Road Nursery is dedicated to taking extra special care of all of your children’s daily needs by providing excellent personal care, safe and secure indoor & outdoor facilities and activities.
Yellow Brick Road Nursery offers the most beautiful and unique preschool learning your child could ever experience.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions, queries or suggestions you may have, thank you and we look forward to meeting you.
Bernadette King-Turner
Nursery Director
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