Child care Yeadon, Leeds: Active Kids Day Nursery

Education

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Our Vision

To deliver high quality childcare, combined with relevant early education and skills to last a life time.

30 Funded Hours

Free Settling in Sessions

Outdoor Play Area

The EYFS - What is it?

The Early Years Foundation Stage explained

Welcome to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), which is how the Government and early years professionals describe the time in your child’s life between birth and age 5. This very important stage helps your child get ready for school as well as preparing them for their future learning and successes. Up until the age of 5, their early years experience should be happy, active, exciting, fun and secure; and support their development, care and learning needs.

All establishments registered to deliver the EYFS must follow a legal document called the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework and we are regulated by Ofsted to ensure this happens.

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The Early Years Foundation Stage explained

What is the EYFS Framework – why do we have one?

The EYFS Framework exists to support all professionals working in the EYFS to help your child, and was developed with a number of early years experts and parents. In 2012 the framework was revised to make it clearer and easier to use, with more focus on the things that matter most. This new framework also has a greater emphasis on your role in helping your child develop. The framework has been revised again with changes to the statutory guidance came into effect in September 2021.

What is heuristic play?

According to the Oxford dictionary, “heuristic” means helping to find out or discover; proceeding by trial and error. It stems from the same root as Eureka – “I found it!”

In the early years classic, People under Three, Elinor Goldschmied and Sonia Jackson coined the term heuristic play, to explain how to provide a more structured opportunity for this kind of activity. Heuristic play “consists of offering a group of children, for a defined period of time in a controlled environment, a large number of different kinds of objects and receptacles with which they play freely without adult intervention”. It is particularly useful for children in their second year who often seem unwilling to engage in any activity for more than a few minutes.

Hygiene Standards

Keep illness at bay.

Good hygiene standards help to keep illness at bay. All children will learn from the very start that they must wash hands before eating, and after using the toilet. The health and well-being of our children is very important to us so we provide them with a healthy diet, including fresh fruits and vegetables on a daily basis, along with milk and water.

Coughing and sneezing into the elbow has helped us throughout the pandemic to keep everyone safe, only having to close once in 2020 after re-opening on 1st June 2020.

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Our Beliefs

A cornerstone of our programme is our belief in children’s natural creativity. We know children get great pleasure from being involved in the arts, and so we encourage this at every age. Children learn skills and gain immense self-esteem when given diverse opportunities to create. Art is an integral part of our programme, and we provide a wide array of materials for creating.

Communication

Communication and Language is one of the prime areas of learning within our EYFS because good communication skills are vital to children's learning and central to all other aspects of the curriculum. We encourage both listening and talking through a range of activities such as reading stories, circle time and role play.