We want all our children to experience success and enjoy their learning whilst at school. We aim to achieve this through high standards of learning and teaching within a happy, structured and caring environment.
The skills of true thinking (reasoning, creativity, judgment and memorization) allow individuals to grow intellectually. Our children are given the chance to perform these mental operations at an appropriate level for their development, adopting High Scope educational approach. Based on the work of Jean Piaget, the High Scope educational approach views children as active learners, who learn best from activities they plan, carry out, and reflect upon. The role of the adult in the High/Scope approach is to plan activities based on the children's interest, facilitate learning through encouragement, and engage in positive adult-child interaction strategies. The concept of active learning comes from the belief that children learn from personal interaction with ideas, direct experiences with physical objects, and application of logical thinking to these experiences.
The High Scope Curriculum approach addresses all following areas of development.
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Communication, Language and Literacy
• Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
• Knowledge and Understanding of the World
• Physical Development health and well being
• Creative Development

• Taking care of one's own needs
• Expressing feelings in words
• Children have feelings of self-confidence and self-control.
• Building relationships with children and adults
• Creating and experiencing collaborative play
• Dealing with social conflict
• Children gain knowledge of understanding of their culture.

Communication, language and literacy depend on learning and being competent in a number of key skills, together with having confidence, opportunity, encouragement, support, and disposition to use them. This area of learning includes:
• Communication, speaking and listening in different situations and for different purposes, being read a wide range of books, reading simple texts and writing for a variety of purposes.
• Children will be encouraged to extend their conversation (Talking with others about personally meaningful experiences)
• Children will be encouraged to describe objects, events, and relations.
• Children will be given opportunities to imagine and recreate experiences.
• Children will explore situations, events and ideas.
• Children will be given opportunities of having fun with language: listening to stories and poems, making up stories and rhymes.
• Children will be encouraged to develop Reading in various ways : reading storybooks, signs and symbols, one's own writing.
• Writing in various ways: drawing, scribbling, letter-like forms, invented spelling, conventional forms.

This area of learning includes counting, sorting, matching, pattern, shape, space and measure. Mathematical understanding should be developed through stories, songs, games and imaginative play, so that children enjoy using and experimenting with numbers. Children will be given opportunities for:
• Comparing attributes (longer/shorter, bigger/smaller)
• Arranging several things one after another in a series or pattern and describing the relationships(big/bigger/biggest, red/blue/red/blue)
• Comparing the numbers of things in two sets to determine "more," "fewer," "same number"
• Sorting and matching
• Arranging two sets of objects in one-to-one correspondence
• Counting objects
• Experiencing and describing positions, directions, and distances in the play space, building, and neighborhood
• Interpreting spatial relations in drawings, pictures, and photographs
• Anticipating, remembering, and describing sequences of events

In this area of learning children are developing the crucial knowledge, skills and understanding that help them to make sense of the world. This learning forms the foundation for later work in science, design technology, history, geography and information technology.
Children will be given opportunities to:
• Develop their knowledge and understanding of the world through first hand experiences that will encourage exploration, observation, problem solving, prediction, decision making supplemented by lots of discussion.
• Children will experience a wide range of activities both indoors and out that will stimulate their interest and curiosity to learn.

Physical development in the Early Years is about improving skills of co-ordination, control, manipulation and movement. Physical development has two other important aspects:
It helps children gain confidence in what they can do. It enables them to feel the positive benefits of being healthy and active.
Children will be given opportunities to:
• Explore the space around them, both indoors and out, and to devise and take part in activities that will assist their physical development.
• Anchored movement: like bending, twisting, rocking, swinging one's arms
• No anchored movement: like running, jumping, hopping, skipping, marching, climbing)
• To experience a wide range of equipment.
• To use the language of movement alongside their actions. (Describing movement)
• Expressing creativity in movement
• Acting upon movement directions
• Moving in sequences to a common beat

Creativity is fundamental to successful learning. Being creative enables children to make connections between one area of learning and another, and so extend their understanding. This area of learning includes art music, dance, role-play and imaginative play.
Children will be given opportunities to:
Visual Art
• Relating models, pictures, and photographs to real places and things
• Making models out of clay, blocks, and other materials
• Drawing and painting
• Express their own ideas
Dramatic Art
• Imitating actions and sounds
• Pretending and role playing
Music
• Singing songs
• Playing simple musical instruments
• Moving to music