Learning and Development

Our highly qualified teachers along with the learning team carefully plan daily activities following the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum, which is the statutory standard, outlined and put forward by the Department for Education. This is done to ensure that your child is offered a wide variety of stimulating but enjoyable activities, which will empower growth both academically and socially. There are two primary methods of teaching utilised by the staff, teacher led tasks and also independent learning this create scope for children to become advanced and achieve their optimal potential. We use a range of key approaches to stratify your child’s development:

Communication: designed to assesses interactions with others to encourage responses to surroundings

Creativity: experiment and exploration of sounds, shapes and colours to stimulate the imagination

Elaboration: encourage your child to be inquisitive and develop an urge to pose question

Engagement: embedding verbal, non-verbal skills to aid social and personal growth

Understanding: initiating a sense of awareness increasing confidence through learning by trial and error

A fantastic way in which we help parents personally feel a part of their child’s development process is via regular updates on the website, along with newsletters. These apparatuses provide innovative ideas on how to support your child’s learning and along with any events that are scheduled to take place. With the help of technological advancements Twisty Tails is proud to offer parents and carers with a secure online portal that has a regularly updated progression path of how your child is doing. Using a state of the art software tool the secure online portfolio is easily accessible at all times. The portal records your child’s activities, their learning journeys, progression and observations made by staff. The physical timetable is updated weekly and is available to view at the nursery on the parent’s board. We welcome parents and carers to join us at various events that we hold throughout the year, and to accompany us on field trips so that they can be an active part in their child’s educational transition.