Forbury Gardens Day Nursery, Abbot’s Walk, Reading RG1 3HW. Telephone: 0118 958 8116 Email: [email protected]

The Early Years Foundation Stage

We are working towards the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) with all children in the Nursery. This has recently been redeveloped and took full effect from September 2012. The EYFS helps us to build the foundations of children’s learning. With the guidance set out by the government we will ensure that we provide every child with an environment in which they can thrive. The EYFS has 4 themes which are:

A Unique Child
Positive Relationships
Enabling Environments
Learning and Development

The Unique Child reaches out to relate to people and things through the Characteristics of Effective Learning, which move through all areas of learning:

• Playing and Exploring
• Active Learning
• Creating and Thinking Critically

The Areas of Learning and Development are then divided into 7 areas, with 3 prime areas which are the key to children’s further development these are:

Personal, Social and Emotional Behaviours
Communication and Language
Physical Development

And there are 4 more specific areas which will develop once a child has developed the skills needed from the prime areas these are:

Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the world
Expressive Arts and Design

It is especially important to us that you as a parent or carer feel involved whilst your child is with us at Nursery and we encourage parents to tell us about exciting things that you are doing or holidays that you are going on so that we can share the excitement with your child.

Your child will be assigned a Key Person who will build a caring and strong relationship with your child. We also operate a key buddy system. Please speak to your key person for further information about this. You can click here to view the official guide to EYFS which is supported by the department of education.

Our Nursery uses the aspects from each area of development in the EYFS to help us to track each child’s progress and enable us to provide the right activities to help all of the children to achieve, progress and reach their full potential. The aspects for each areas are:

Personal, Social and Emotional Development.

Making relationships, self-confidence and self-awareness, Managing feelings and behaviour.

Communication and Language.

Listening and attention, understanding, speaking

Physical Development.

Moving and handling. Health and self-care.

Literacy.

Reading (enjoying books from an early age).
Writing (learning to make marks of their own).

Mathematics.

Shape, space and measure. Numbers.

Understanding the World.

Technology. The World. People and communities.

Expressive Arts and Design.

Media and materials. Being imaginative.

Please click here to view the parents guide in understanding the EYFS.

About

Forbury Gardens is The Forbury Group's first nursery which was established in 1991. We are a privately run children’s day nursery. Offering full and part time places to children from 3 months up to the age of 5 years. We are situated in the heart of Reading town Centre, next to the Forbury Gardens, and five minutes walk from the train station, and five minutes walk from the town centre. Our other two nurseries are Berkeley Gardens Day Nursery which is also in Reading and Newbury Gardens Day Nursery which is in Newbury town centre.

We will provide a high standard of healthy meals using quality ingredients. Your child will receive a two course lunch and snacks which are prepared by our cook, Bal, using fresh ingredients. We aim to introduce the children to different tastes and textures whilst encouraging good manners and a happy atmosphere when we sit down for meal times.

We will provide a high standard of healthy meals using quality ingredients. Your child will receive a two course lunch and snacks which are prepared by our cook, Jackie, using fresh ingredients. We aim to introduce the children to different tastes and textures whilst encouraging good manners and a happy atmosphere when we sit down for meal times.

Welfare

The health and safety of all the children are of fundamental importance. We aim to provide a secure and pleasant environment for everyone. We practice a whole range of safety policies and procedures. Your child is allocated a ‘Key Person’ within their room, who is responsible for your child’s well being, ensuring your child feels individual, secure and cherished while they are away from home.