We would like to welcome you to our Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). We now welcome children from the term after they turn two years old.
At King Street Primary and Pre-School our children share the same newly developed calm, neutral and inviting learning environment. We have three large, separate classroom areas for our Pre-School Little Buds/Little Acorns (nursery) and Reception children to develop all areas of their learning and a shared outdoor space and Learning Garden. With qualified teachers and highly qualified Early Years practitioners within both of our classes, we provide a stimulating environment using high-quality adult interactions, experiences, and resources to enable all of our children to develop their potential (Cultural Capital).
Our child-centred approach promotes the development of independence, creativity, individuality and self-confidence whilst delivering the highest standards of care and ensuring progression from every child's unique starting point.
Our parents, children, school staff and Governors were consulted in helping to create a broad and ambitious curriculum which is unique to King Street Primary and Pre-School and gives children a sense of pride and belonging in Spennymoor as well as exploring the world beyond. Our progressive, carefully planned curriculum ensures that children know more and remember more and offers high quality experiences and opportunities for our children, ensuring that they are well-prepared for the next steps of their learning journey. Our children become problem-solvers and readers.
We offer a wide range of experiences which enable children to develop enquiring minds and to become successful learners within a safe, happy and stimulating environment, both indoors and out.
We recognise that many young children prefer to learn outdoors and place great emphasis on our outdoor learning. The outdoors offers our children to experience the changing environment first hand whilst allowing the freedom to work on a larger scale, be messier and be louder! Using the environment to support learning outdoors is one of our fundamental beliefs and is well recognised in helping develop strong, independent learners and thinkers. To support this belief, we have a fully qualified forest school instructor on site to ensure that children have the highest quality learning experiences both on the school site and beyond on our ‘into nature’ days.
Our intention is to provide the best Early Years education for every single child who we welcome into our setting, in partnership with parents, carers, Governors and the wider community. We ensure that every individual child enjoys education from their very first experiences with us and reaches their full potential.
We value the strong partnerships with our parents in ensuring that we meet the needs of our children. We involve parents at all levels, recognising the huge benefits that a shared partnership brings to each child’s early life experience.
All children in the EYFS are encouraged to support one another and help build on each other’s strengths. The cooperative learning is wonderful to see!
Please take a look on our Gallery Pages to see us in action!
At King Street Primary and Pre-School Early Years Foundation Stage Unit, we:
- provide open-ended activities so that our children develop their imagination.
- let our children touch nature so that they feel connected with their world.
- point out creatures passing by so that our children learn to let things go.
- allow our children to take risks so that they learn to assess danger for themselves.
- let our children handle fragile things so that they learn to be gentle.
- share amazing stories so that our children grow to love words and their meanings.
- provide our children with challenges so that they develop persistence.
- encourage movement and balance so that our children feel strong in their bodies.
- allow our children to disagree because that is how they learn to work things out.
- show our children that mistakes are ok because that is how we grow.
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Future house designer!
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Counting and number recognition.
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Keeping an eye on Nigel the tortoise.
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Off to the castle!
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"Hello!"
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Building fun!
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Exploring.
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Mud, mud, glorious mud!
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Muddy puddles are fun together!
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Learning to use new tools safely.
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Ready, steady, go!
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Traffic jam!
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Sledging in the snow
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Mud burger anyone?
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Holding a chick
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Learning new skills.
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Taking care of the chicks.
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Messy mud-kitchen fun!
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Fishing
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See-saw
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Out at the forest!
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Colour mixing in the studio.
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Our Autumn 'stained glass'
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