Helping your little monkey swing to success
EYFS
The EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) Framework is in place in our setting. We use this as our guide in providing the best childcare experience that we can for your child. It also aids us with supporting your child's development through observations, planning opportunities for learning, and planning activities to help your child prepare to start school. It is important to us that we work closely with you to make sure your child has the best start in their education. To help with that you can contact the manager, Val, via phone, text, email, Facebook, and even face to face! We also use an online learning journey called Famly, which is available on desktop and as apps for iOS, Android, and some Amazon Fire devices. This helps us track your child's development so that we can make sure they are making good progress in the EYFS.
We also use Famly to keep a daily diary of what your child has been doing with us, as well as notes on what they have eaten and when they have slept etc. For our under 2s, we keep a daily diary. Famly is updated at approximately 1pm for children who come in just for the morning, and at about 6pm for children who are with us in the afternoon or all day. Daily diaries come home each day for you to read and comment on.
Each child also has a personal folder, which we build up in the time they are with us. This contains artwork, photos, 'Wows' and more. All this will be explained in more detail when you visit.
Our Curriculum
At Wild Monkeys Childcare, we use the new Development Matters guidance to build our curriculum. We start each fortnight by sharing our ‘book of the week’ to inspire the children. This creates lots of excitement and discussion. We then provide a variety of stimulating activities based on the book, following our children’s interests and seeing where the learning will take us!
Rather than having a rigid daily plan for learning, this allows us to be flexible and helps to ensure that the children are fully engaged with their learning and play. This promotes brain development, confidence, and emotional and physical wellbeing.
We also provide rotating resources and provocations related to events, celebrations, and changes in the world around them, to ensure children are exposed to lots of different opportunities, topics, and ideas!
At Wild Monkeys, we have several ‘focus children’ over a period of time. Staff will focus on observing these children whilst they play to find out more about their interests and development, and to promote their learning. All children will be focus children during the term, and staff will provide the same great care to all children.
When your child is a focus child, we will post on Tapestry asking you to share any information you would like about your child - this could be about their interests, their learning and development, any significant events at home, or anything else. We will use this to inform our activities during their focus time.
At the end of your child’s focus time, all of the observations of your child will be uploaded to Tapestry, and you can contact Val to arrange a meeting with your child’s key worker.
For more information about Development Matters, visit the following Link.
Nature Nursery
Here at Wild Monkeys Childcare, we know how important it is for children to be connected to nature - study after study has shown that just being outside in nature can massively improve mental and physical health, communication, social relationships, and so many other aspects of children's development!
Nature Schools and Nurseries can play a big role in improving children's access to nature. At Wild Monkeys Childcare, we have nature school sessions several times a week, either in our wonderful local nature areas. Activities can include bug hunts, crafting and mark-making with natural items, imaginative play with natural items, and more - all supporting the EYFS!
As part of our Nature Nursery provision, we also use the outside all year round, no matter the weather.
The EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) Framework is in place in our setting. We use this as our guide in providing the best childcare experience that we can for your child. It also aids us with supporting your child's development through observations, planning opportunities for learning, and planning activities to help your child prepare to start school. It is important to us that we work closely with you to make sure your child has the best start in their education. To help with that you can contact the manager, Val, via phone, text, email, Facebook, and even face to face! We also use an online learning journey called Famly, which is available on desktop and as apps for iOS, Android, and some Amazon Fire devices. This helps us track your child's development so that we can make sure they are making good progress in the EYFS.
We also use Famly to keep a daily diary of what your child has been doing with us, as well as notes on what they have eaten and when they have slept etc. For our under 2s, we keep a daily diary. Famly is updated at approximately 1pm for children who come in just for the morning, and at about 6pm for children who are with us in the afternoon or all day. Daily diaries come home each day for you to read and comment on.
Each child also has a personal folder, which we build up in the time they are with us. This contains artwork, photos, 'Wows' and more. All this will be explained in more detail when you visit.
Our Curriculum
At Wild Monkeys Childcare, we use the new Development Matters guidance to build our curriculum. We start each fortnight by sharing our ‘book of the week’ to inspire the children. This creates lots of excitement and discussion. We then provide a variety of stimulating activities based on the book, following our children’s interests and seeing where the learning will take us!
Rather than having a rigid daily plan for learning, this allows us to be flexible and helps to ensure that the children are fully engaged with their learning and play. This promotes brain development, confidence, and emotional and physical wellbeing.
We also provide rotating resources and provocations related to events, celebrations, and changes in the world around them, to ensure children are exposed to lots of different opportunities, topics, and ideas!
At Wild Monkeys, we have several ‘focus children’ over a period of time. Staff will focus on observing these children whilst they play to find out more about their interests and development, and to promote their learning. All children will be focus children during the term, and staff will provide the same great care to all children.
When your child is a focus child, we will post on Tapestry asking you to share any information you would like about your child - this could be about their interests, their learning and development, any significant events at home, or anything else. We will use this to inform our activities during their focus time.
At the end of your child’s focus time, all of the observations of your child will be uploaded to Tapestry, and you can contact Val to arrange a meeting with your child’s key worker.
For more information about Development Matters, visit the following Link.
Nature Nursery
Here at Wild Monkeys Childcare, we know how important it is for children to be connected to nature - study after study has shown that just being outside in nature can massively improve mental and physical health, communication, social relationships, and so many other aspects of children's development!
Nature Schools and Nurseries can play a big role in improving children's access to nature. At Wild Monkeys Childcare, we have nature school sessions several times a week, either in our wonderful local nature areas. Activities can include bug hunts, crafting and mark-making with natural items, imaginative play with natural items, and more - all supporting the EYFS!
As part of our Nature Nursery provision, we also use the outside all year round, no matter the weather.
