Early Years
We provide children with purposeful, enriching learning opportunities through high quality teaching and a well-planned learning environment. This ensures the development of strong characteristics of effective learning in the children we teach so they confidently and fluently progress in skills development through our remarkable Early Years setting where no child is left behind. Our early years curriculum is well established and includes the teaching of subject specific knowledge to develop children’s vocabulary. We focus our learning around stories to promote vocabulary development.
Why choose Beckfoot Priestthorpe Early Years?
Your child will receive a high-quality education from qualified teachers and early years practitioners
Our curriculum develops early Literacy skills and effective communication
Our curriculum supports development of strong personal, social and emotional skills
Our school is dedicated to supporting the needs of our learners
We provide both whole class and small group teaching
Children are instilled with a passion for lifelong learning
Children have access to our Outdoor classroom throughout the day
Our Early Years Structure
Nursery hours
Our nursery pupils can come to school for 15 hour or 30 hour sessions.
The morning session runs from 8.30am – 11.30am
Children staying all day come from 8.30am – 3.00pm
Reception Hours
8.35am – 3.05pm Monday to Friday
We also have an Early Years Breakfast Club that nursery children can attend from 7.45am. External providers Kanga, also offer after school care from 3.05pm – 5.45pm for early years children.
Please contact us to register your place on the waiting list as soon as possible.
Lunch
Children in nursery can either bring a packed lunch or pay for a school lunch if they are staying all day.
All children in Reception are eligible for free school lunches. Children can have a school lunch or bring a packed lunch from home.
Staffing
We value the importance of the early years, and aim to give all children the best possible start to their education, therefore we have an experienced teacher and Early Years Practitioner in our unit who lead our early years provision together.
Beckfoot Priestthorpe Early Years Curriculum
Our Early Years curriculum has been carefully designed to engage and challenge children from 3-5 years old, encouraging children to explore, play and critically think. Providing them with the solid foundations to enjoy, learn and succeed.
Our learning is progressively planned through a book-based curriculum. We follow a balanced approach with aspects of direct teaching skills and knowledge as well as child led play, where children follow their interests and actively learn in a purposefully planned environment. Children have access to indoors and outdoors provision throughout the day.
We have a focus on early literacy skills, laying solid foundations across the prime areas of learning including personal, social and emotional development (PSED), communication and language (CL) and physical development (PD). We have a qualified teacher who works throughout Early Years ensuring all our children have been given the opportunity to develop foundational skills to enjoy, learn and succeed.
How we support children with SEND in early years
We promote inclusive classrooms where all children are supported to learn more and remember more. We use Makaton throughout early years to support and encourage communication and interactions between all pupils and staff. We work closely with families and external agencies and settings to help identify and support children who have additional needs. Individual support plans and targets are developed and followed to ensure all children have a great start to their early education. If additionality is needed, we apply for Early Years Inclusion Funding (EYIF) to provide children support in Early Years.