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The Nursery - Birth to Three Matters
We intend that your children should enjoy the best possible start in life. Glenhurst follows the “Birth to Three Matters” framework which focuses on 4 areas of a child’s early development:
A Skilful Communicator
This area includes: listening and responding appropriately to the language of others through enjoying songs, rhymes, games, stories and listening to what others say; becoming sociable and effective communicators through making contact with others and forming positive relationships; becoming competent and confident language users through exploring, experimenting, labelling and expression and through describing, questioning, representing, predicting and sharing thoughts, feelings and ideas; to understand and to be understood through negotiating and making choices, influencing others and learning to communicate meaning.
A Strong Child
This area includes: acquiring social confidence through enjoying being with familiar and trusted others and having a role and identity within a group; realising their own individuality by recognising personal characteristics and preferences and understanding that they are separate and different from others; becoming able to rely on their own abilities by becoming confident in what they can do; understanding that they are valued and important and being able to contribute to secure relationships; gaining emotional stability and resilience through learning to express their feelings and developing a healthy independence; feeling safe and protected by having clear and consistent boundaries that are reasonable yet challenging.
A Competent Learner
This area includes: responding to the world creatively through exploring and discovering, experimenting with sound and movement and developing competence and creativity; connecting ideas and understanding the world by making connections through their senses and movement and by becoming playfully engaged and involved; responding to the world imaginatively through imitating, mirroring, moving, exploring and re-enacting and by playing imaginatively with materials using all of the senses.
A Healthy Child
This area includes: developing fine motor skills involving the use of paints, pencils, simple tools, playdoh, sand, water, pasta etc; developing gross motor skills through activities promoting crawling, walking, dancing, balancing and gaining control of their bodies.
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