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WELCOME TO HOUGHTON COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL





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Our Vision 

Central to the work of Houghton Community Nursery is the creation of a caring
safe and secure environment along with the promotion of equality of opportunity.
The staff aim to ensure that everyone feels respected and confident. All
children from our youngest babies, to our 2, 3 and 4 year olds should feel
valued and able to fully participate in school life. We aim to create an
inclusive, supportive atmosphere in which children can be independent and
challenged in their development; where families are welcomed as partners and
relationships are firmly based on mutual respect and trust. 

Realising the Vision

In order to realise the vision we treat children as unique and value their
differences. Every child at Houghton Community Nursery has a voice- this can be
expressed in many different ways; our staff are very skilled at listening,
observing, giving them time and tuning into this voice so that every child is
able to express their thoughts, fascinations and interests. These
‘consultations’ form the basis of our curriculum in which children and staff
work in partnership to explore, create and discover how exciting learning can
be.



Our Children

By the time our children leave us we hope they will have:

 * A life long enthusiasm for learning
 * Confidence in themselves
 * Respect for themselves and others
 * A sense of awe and wonder
 * A broad knowledge
 * An ability to work and communicate with others
 * An ability to think for themselves
 * A ‘voice’
 * The confidence to take risks- both physically and in their learning
 * An ability to see themselves as part of a wider community-embracing
   differences
 * A ‘Growth Mindset’- which promotes a belief that talents and abilities can be
   developed through effort, persistence, learning from ‘mistakes’
   and challenging oneself

Open the door to learning…

All staff are highly experienced, and work closely alongside all the children.
Central to our work at Houghton Community Nursery is the importance we give to
the voice of the child. We actively listen to children – seeking to find out
what they are interested in, what questions they have and what they would like
to know more about. Our role as educators is to support them in this journey so
that the children attending Houghton Nursery “discover how exciting learning can
be.”  



This means our curriculum content is flexible as children’s interests change and
can be be very varied. However this allows us to support the children in their
learning and development of skills in the prime and specific areas of the early
years curriculum which provide the foundations for lifelong learning, education
and achievement. 


CURRICULUM

The EYFS is the Department of Education’s guidance and policy relating to
schools that have children up to 5 years of age.

The EYFS describes the characteristics of effective learning. These are learning
dispositions that children display when they are learning effectively.

They are:

 * Play and Exploring- Engagement
 * Active Learning-Motivation
 * Creative and Thinking Critically-Thinking





THERE ARE 4 KEY THEMES IN THE EYFS…

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UNIQUE CHILD

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POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS

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ENABLING ENVIRONMENTS

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LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

Within the Learning and Development theme there are 7 areas of learning. These
are split into Prime and Specific Areas. 

The Prime areas are…

 1. Personal, Social and Emotional Development
 2. Communication and Language Development
 3. Physical Development

The Specific Areas of Learning are…

 1. Literacy
 2. Mathematics
 3. Understanding of the World
 4. Expressive Arts and Design

The Curriculum into Practice

Our curriculum begins with detailed observations of the children. Staff gain an
understanding of the children’s current level of understanding and interests;
they build the environment and learning experiences around these. The curriculum
is delivered both indoors and out so that the children can access learning in
whichever environment they prefer. We use real objects where possible and seek
to give children first hand experiences so that learning is set in real contexts
which make sense to the children.

We also have daily small group times where children work with a key person to
develop personal, social/emotional skills and grounding in mathematics and
literacy.

Staff track each individual child’s learning and development and set targets
each term in negotiation with parents. Summative assessments are completed
termly.

The theory that underpins our practice -guiding and informing our curriculum

All of our practice and curriculum is informed by our  knowledge of child
development. We draw on the work of many theorists, researchers and educators to
ensure we are providing the highest quality experiences for the children who
attend Houghton Community Nursery. 




Houghton Community Nursery School,
Nesham Place,
Houghton le Spring
DH5 8AE
United Kingdom
0191 584 6655

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