Play | Teachers in Early Years support play through, creating and maintaining engaging learning spaces, scheduling uninterrupted playtime indoors and outdoors, noticing and responding to students' emerging thinking processes, interests, and theories to extend learning, & monitoring and documenting students' learning and development through play and offering scaffolded learning experiences. |
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Relationships | To establish relationships with families the foundations of which expand when students enter school. Teachers support the development of relationships through regular conversations with parents and legal guardians, acknowledging and respecting each student's individuality, connecting with individual students through conversations, documentations and acknowledgments & recognising opportunities for students to learn to self regulate during play and offer support and feedback |
Learning Spaces | Teachers create safe, stimulating, and inviting learning spaces by offering a range of open-ended materials arranging and rearranging materials as invitations for learning & creating areas for roleplay. block play, mark-making, expression through the arts. Teachers also involve students in the design and construction of play areas & creating displays that reflect the process of students' learning |
Symbolic Exploration & Expression | Effective language and mathematics learning and teaching is based on students' developing ability to listen to and speak with others and to understand and use symbols |
School Times | 08:00 to 12:00 |