We are committed to providing a purposeful and empowering Early Years Curriculum that fully prepares our younger learners for the next steps in their school career, as well as the challenges of the wider world. A curriculum in which prime areas of learning are at the heart of all we do. We believe that knowledge and skill are intrinsically linked and therefore balance our curriculum on the acquisition of prepositional and procedural knowledge: our curriculum is skills based and knowledge-rich.
In the Early Years, we recognise that creativity and play contribute significantly to children’s thinking and understanding. Children are made aware of the wide range of devices in the home, school and wider world through free play and role play, as well as adult-led activities. These activities are based on pupils’ interests and current themes. We constantly provide enhancement opportunities to engage inquisitive minds and believe that childhood should be a happy, investigative and enquiring time in our lives where there are no limits to curiosity and there is a thirst for new experiences and knowledge.
At Grange View, we do not make a distinction between work and play. Children learn through planned play activities and staff will decide when child-initiated or adult-led play activities would provide the most effective learning opportunities.