BUMBLEBEE ROOM
Bumblebee Room
Welcome to Bumblebee Room, led by Jemma.
This room is also known as our Pre-School Room where we will be supporting your child with everything they need to enable them to successfully transition into school. We support children’s developing skills within the structure of the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework. We look at both the Characteristics of Effective Learning as well as Prime and Specific Areas of Learning to support children during their time with us:
The Characteristics of Learning are:
• Playing and exploring
• Active learning
• Creating and thinking critically
The Prime and Specific Areas of Learning are:
• Personal, social and emotional development
• Physical development
• Communication and language
• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the world
• Expressive arts and design
Our approach ensures that we take into account the age and stage that the child is at, and that we “observe, plan, carryout & review” the activities that we deliver. We take a holistic approach to learning, recognising that children often cover lots of areas of learning in the course of doing one activity. We support children to be successful readers and writers by ensuring a “language rich” environment which includes interest tables, areas for children to mark make and “write” throughout the provision so that they are able to understand the value of communicating through the written word. Social skills are further enhanced but we ensure that children’s unique and individual personalities are celebrated to enable them to have the confidence to contribute within the room, to make friendships and to engage with adults. Of course, our educational approach is combined with care and attention to every child. We encourage and support children to explore arts, music, dance and technology to develop their learning further. We provide opportunities for children to be excited about mathematics and science, to problem solve and find things out for themselves, as well as scaffolding their learning – our approach to the role that the adult plays. Our environment is set up for children to independently access resources through different areas of provision which are available to children throughout the day.
