Intent and Ambitions (7 C’s)

Willow Nursery School Curriculum Intent and Ambitions

At Willow Nursery School, we intend to provide a rich and engaging early years curriculum that is personalised to the needs and interests of our children. Our curriculum is delivered through adult and child-initiated learning experiences. We focus on developing communication and language skills, developing positive relationships with adults and other children, and embedding core knowledge and skills that lay firm foundations for future learning. Our curriculum, takes into account, the varying needs and abilities of individual children and is tailored to the child’s developmental needs.

We see our school at the heart of the community and we acknowledge the significance of the school and families working in partnership, and the importance of all children experiencing a high-quality nursery education and the positive impact that this has on later life.

Communication

Community

Challenge

Caring and Kind

Capable

Creative

Counting

We have developed the following curriculum ambitions, which are unique to Willow Nursery School: We call them the 7 C’s.

Our curriculum ambitions are unique to Willow Nursery School. They were devised and discussed as a whole school team and what are important to us for our children and their families.

Communication

To gain the necessary skills to become an effective communicator

To communicate wants, interests and feelings and engage in meaningful interactions
To begin to join words to talk about people, experiences, wants and needs.
To confidently use a developing vocabulary appropriate to the individual child’s capabilities.
To develop attention and listening skills in a range of contexts

To enjoy familiar songs, rhymes and stories

To respond to favourite rhymes and songs
To listen to nursery rhymes and stories
Joins in with familiar rhymes and stories
To use familiar stories in play

Community

To have a sense of belonging to the ‘Willow family’

To show an interest in others e.g. their names, their interests.
To appreciate similarities and differences between themselves and others
To develop positive relationships and a sense of belonging with practitioners and other children
To be able to separate happily from their parent/carer
To feel settled at nursery
To have a positive sense of self, talks about people and experiences that are important to them
To be able participate and feel confident in following nursery rules and routines.
To be able to use good manners – please and thankyou and be considerate

To develop an interest in and care for the natural world

To look around with interest within the natural environment
To explore and engage with new and familiar experiences in the world around them
To talk about things that they have seen and comment on similarities, difference and change.

Challenge

To develop body awareness, confidence and co-ordination

To use their body to achieve goals
To be able to challenge themselves safely
To confidently assess risk
To safely use a wide range of tools
To embrace new experiences and persevere in their play

Caring and Kind

To develop an understanding about our own and others people’s feelings.
To know that being kind and caring makes us and others feel good.
To learn ways to be kind and caring towards others
To develop an understanding of feelings – happy, sad, angry, excited.

Capable

To become independent and capable in personal care routines

To use the toilet independently
To wash hands effectively and know appropriate times to wash hands
To dress and undress themselves including putting on coat and zipping it up
To be able to feed themselves
To use good manners when eating i.e. appropriate amount of food in their mouth

Creative

To be exposed to a wide variety of creative opportunities
Experiments with a range of media
To be able to have an idea and explore creating it
To be imaginative by themselves and with others
To be comfortable with self-expression
To solve problems in different ways

Counting

To develop good number sense to 5 and beyond

To become familiar with the sequence of numbers and be able to say or sing them in order
To count in different contexts, beginning to say one number name for each object
To understand that the last number counted gives the total
To be able recognise small quantities without counting