Woodley Gardens Day Nursery, 71 Reading Road, Woodley, Reading RG5 3AE Telephone: 0118 921 9100 Email: [email protected]

Our Ethos

The Prime Areas

The Specific Areas

The Early Years Foundation Stage

We are working towards the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) with all children in the Nursery. The EYFS helps us to build the foundations of children’s learning. With the guidance set out by the government we will ensure that we provide every child with an environment in which they can thrive. The EYFS has 4 themes which are:

A Unique Child
Positive Relationships
Enabling Environments
Learning and Development

The Unique Child reaches out to relate to people and things through the Characteristics of Effective Learning, which move through all areas of learning:

• Playing and Exploring
• Active Learning
• Creating and Thinking Critically

The Areas of Learning and Development are then divided into 7 areas, with 3 prime areas which are the key to children’s further development these are:

Personal, Social and Emotional Behaviours
Communication and Language
Physical Development

And there are 4 more specific areas which will develop once a child has developed the skills needed from the prime areas these are:

Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the world
Expressive Arts and Design

It is especially important to us that you as a parent or carer feel involved whilst your child is with us at Nursery and we encourage parents to tell us about exciting things that you are doing or holidays that you are going on so that we can share the excitement with your child.

Your child will be assigned a Key Person who will build a caring and strong relationship with your child. We also operate a key buddy system. Please speak to your key person for further information about this.

Our Nursery uses the aspects from each area of development in the EYFS to help us to track each child’s progress and enable us to provide the right activities to help all of the children to achieve, progress and reach their full potential. The aspects for each areas are:

Personal, Social and Emotional Development.

Making relationships, self-confidence and self-awareness, Managing feelings and behaviour.

Communication and Language.

Listening and attention, understanding, speaking

Physical Development.

Moving and handling. Health and self-care.

Literacy.

Reading (enjoying books from an early age).
Writing (learning to make marks of their own).

Mathematics.

Shape, space and measure. Numbers.

Understanding the World.

Technology. The World. People and communities.

Expressive Arts and Design.

Media and materials. Being imaginative.

Please click here to view the parents guide in understanding the EYFS.

About

Woodley Gardens Day Nursery is part of The Forbury Group which was established in 1991. We are a privately run children’s day nursery. Offering full and part time places to children from 3 months up to the age of 5 years. We are situated on Reading road.

We will provide a high standard of healthy meals using quality ingredients. Your child will receive a two course lunch and snacks which are prepared by our cook, Bal, using fresh ingredients. We aim to introduce the children to different tastes and textures whilst encouraging good manners and a happy atmosphere when we sit down for meal times.

Welfare

Health and safety is considered of upmost importance and the Nursery practices a range of saftey policies and procedures which are available for you to read. To ensure security and well being, we allocate a ‘key person’ for each child. This helps us to ensure that each child is individually being cared for and feels cherished.