Jumping Jacks Nursery

This room is very child-focused and the children are included in the planning and evaluating of activities through the use of floorbooks. A floorbook is a way for children to revisit their learning so they are getting in depth experience. Within this book the children draw pictures of what they have learnt and also we fill little speech bubbles with any comments they make. Research shows that children learn better when involved in activities which they choose and enjoy doing. This is a philosophy we believe in greatly at Jumping Jacks. When it is nearing time to start school we do our utmost to make this transition as easy and stress free for the child as possible. This includes visiting the school with the child and taking lots of photos so we can continue to talk about how exciting it will be to go to school. We also encourage visits to nursery from the school teacher as well as incorporating school into role play scenarios and reading many books.

The Curriculum is made up of eight areas and each section has a variety of early level outcomes.
The eight areas of the curriculum are:-

Expressive arts
Health and well-being
Literacy and English
Mathematics
Religious and moral education
Science
Social studies
Technologies

To assist learning in each of these key areas our team plan activities and experiences to ensure that the children in our care receive the best quality of learning. When the team plan they take into account the children's individual skills as well as what they have to tackle as a group.