OUR CURRICULUM

Practical life:  The main emphasis in these activities is life skills. While engaging in these activities your child will be laying foundations of learning and getting ready to explore the rest of the curriculum.

Sensorial: Our sensorial materials introduce a wide range of concepts to your child in a clear, unambiguous way. These include shape, size, colour, size, texture, taste, sound and smell. Through these activities your child will begin to make comparisons, initially by matching objects that are alike, then by grading by subtle differences, and learning to order or classify by different criteria. These activities help your child to develop early maths skills in a hands on and memorable way.

Mathematics: children start mathematics as they acquire the concepts of number, quantity and base in a clear , unambiguous way. The sensorial work continues, with children physically handling and manipulating quantities. Beads are used in a variety of activities including introducing units, tens, hundreds and thousands; squares and cubes of the numbers 1 to 10. Your child will also begin working with fractions and learn to name and compare  2D and 3D geometric shapes. Later  activities gradually move towards memorisation skills and more abstract materials.

Language: We will help your child to experience the magic and delight that language brings. Using sensorial exploration we will help your child to develop a wide and varied vocabulary, develop confidence when talking or sharing information in a group, develop story telling and dramatization skills as well as social language skills and respecting others. Throughout the year we introduce a wide range of literature, songs and poetry both in style and genre. Awareness is built up of the sounds in the English language through the use of an ‘I spy game’ and sandpaper letters. Through these, phonetic skills are nurtured which leads to writing and reading.

Cultural studies:  awareness is developed of the world as a diverse whole. Your child may choose to investigate biology, finding out about the different parts of a bird, or the differences between birds and mammals. Botany introduces the study of leaves and the examination of plants and flowers. Through Geography activities land and water forms are investigated as well as continents and a variety of countries. Topic and project work incorporating aspects of history, geography, science, technology and appreciation of arts.  All children benefit from the active approach to learning, and acquire a solid grounding in a wide variety of subjects.