Benefits of Our Early Years Provision

natural and appropriate conversational language is used with the children at all times in an attempt to convey their actions, interests and thoughts, to facilitate their participation in and understanding of activities and experiences and to continually develop their oral language competence;

the children have access to speech and language therapists who work in partnership with parents and school staff to promote each child’s speech and language development;

a progression of planned play activities enables the children to encounter practise and consolidate a broad range of learning experiences;

a thematic cross curricular approach provides the repetition and reinforcement through a variety of contexts that is necessary to facilitate the children’s understanding of the language, skills and concepts covered;

children are given opportunities and encouragement to examine and investigate the environment, indoor and outside and with guidance to experiment and discover for themselves;

classroom assistant support allows adult  / child interactions to take place on an individual paired or small group basis as appropriate for specific learning objectives;

each child has a home / school book that conveys the activities and experiences undertaken in a school day and any other significant information pertaining to the child’s home or school life;

efforts are made to provide support for the families of young children attending St John’s school and information, advice and encouragement are given at formal and informal meetings in school, through telephone calls and written exchanges;

the children have opportunities to integrate with children at a  hearing playgroup to foster the growth of their self confidence and self reliance and to develop better social awareness between hearing and hearing impaired children;

the children are familiarised with routines and disciplines which benefit the personal, linguistic and cognitive development of the class as a whole;

the children are encouraged to adopt Christian values in their daily interactions with others in and out of the classroom setting.