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Educational Goals

The Old School House follows the Montessori method of pre-primary learning within the nursery, whilst incorporating the desirable learning outcomes as specified by the DfEE. These are:-

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

  1. Have confidence and self respect.
  2. Behave in appropriate ways.
  3. Are aware of right and wrong.
  4. Work well in groups and are willing to take turns and share fairly.
  5. Treat living things, property and their environment with care and concern.
  6. Have good relationship with and sensitivity to others, including those of different cultures and beliefs.
  7. Show a range of feelings such as wonder, joy and sorrow.
  8. Respond to cultural and religious events.
  9. Concentrate and persevere
  10. Take initiative.
  11. Are able to select an activity or resource.
  12. Work well independently.
  13. Have personal independence (eg, in dressing, hygiene).


LANGUAGE AND LITERACY

  1. Listen attentively (eg, stories, songs, rhymes).
  2. Talk about their experiences.
  3. Use increasing vocabulary to express thoughts and explore meanings.
  4. Take part in role play and make up their own stories.
  5. Use and enjoy books, know that pictures and words have meaning, that pages turn, text reads from left to right and from top to bottom.
  6. Recognises own name and some familiar words.
  7. Recognise letters of the alphabet by shape and sound.
  8. Associate sounds with patterns and rhymes, with syllables, and with words and letters.
  9. Use pictures and symbols, familiar words and letters in their writing to communicate meaning.
  10. Write their name with the appropriate use of upper and lower case letters.


PROBLEM SOLVING, REASONING AND NUMERACY

  1. Use Problem Solving, Reasoning & Numeracy language to describe shape, position, size or quantity (eg, circle, cube, behind, bigger than, more).
  2. Recognise and recreate mathematical patterns.
  3. Compare, sort, match, order, sequence and count, using everyday objects.
  4. Are familiar with counting games, number rhymes, songs and stories
  5. Recognise and use numbers to 10.
  6. Through practical activities, begin to solve problems.
  7. Through practical activities record numbers and show an awareness or number operations, such as addition and subtraction, and language, such as add one more, take one away, how many altogether, how many are left?


KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD

  1. Talk about their families and past and present events in their lives.
  2. Talk about where they live, their environment and the purpose of some of its features.
  3. Explore features of living things, natural and made objects.
  4. Look closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change.
  5. Talk about and sometimes record their observations.
  6. Question why things happen and how they work.
  7. Explore and select material and equipment to use skills such as cutting, joining, folding, and building for a variety of purposes.
  8. Make appropriate use of technology (eg, computers)to support their learning.


PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

  1. Move confidently and imaginatively, with increasing control, co-ordination and an awareness of space and others.
  2. Use a range of large and small equipment with increasing skill.
  3. Use balancing and climbing apparatus, with increasing skill.
  4. Handle appropriate tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control.


CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

  1. Explore sound.
  2. Explore colour, texture, shape, space and form in two and three dimensions.
  3. Respond in a variety of ways to what they see, hear, smell, touch and feel.
  4. Show increasing ability to listen, observe, and use imagination through art, music, dance, stories and imaginative play.
  5. Use a widening range of materials, suitable tools, musical instruments and other resources to express ideas and to communicate feelings.