The evening explained the Early Years Foundation Stage which is the guidance we use to support your child's learning and development. We shared how your key person and staff plan activities to support the children's needs and learning and, conscious that due to Covid visits have been limited, we invited you to look around the nursery room whilst we demonstrated activities that your child takes part in daily.

In addition to sharing the guidance we use, the evening was also to share with parents the importance of play including how children play, why they play and how children should be encouraged to try with no fear of failure.  We discussed how parents can play with your child through lots of methods including role play, counting, schemas, singing and bringing stories to 'life'.  The staff demonstrated lots of different methods of how to play including various ways to read a story and singing a song; this captivated the entire audience demonstrating the point perfectly.

Our aim was to explain the 7 different areas of learning and how our staff incorporate these into every day play, following the children's interests and extending their learning whilst the children have fun and are happy and secure. Ultimately how all of these continue to work together to give our children the confidence, self-belief and resilience they need to become 'school ready'

Parent partnership is extremely important to us and your feedback helps guide our setting.  We would like to thank everyone who attended the EYFS forum and who has taken the time to complete the feedback survey.  The responses reflect that the forum was useful and you were able to take lots of useful ideas with you for extending your child’s learning at home, as well as understanding how important play is to learning and development of children in the early years.