Welcome to Longmoor!

Our curriculum is planned for both inside and outside of the classroom and equal importance is given to learning in both areas. We ensure activities planned indoors and outdoors support the Characteristics of Effective Learning, including; Playing and Exploring – children can investigate and experience things, and have a go; Active Learning – children can show concentration and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties, and enjoy achievements; Creating and Thinking Critically – children have and develop their own ideas, they can make links between ideas and develop strategies for doing things.

The Nursery and Reception Team continuously work to ensure that all children in the Early Years are surrounded by a kind, caring and happy environment which helps them develop the same skills in their journey through school. We aim for our school to be a positive place where resilience, perseverance and successes are celebrated and every child feels valued and respected.

Our intent is to:

• Establish an environment that is nurturing, bright and exciting and one that is full of interesting and challenging activities in which learning can take place.

• Respond to children’s interests and use these to inform planning. To create an indoor and outdoor environment which supports learning.

• Deliver a curriculum based on entitlement for all, that considers each child’s existing knowledge and experiences, and where the children can engage in first hand experiences

• Give children opportunities to practise, revise and extend knowledge and skills in a consistent and stable environment.

• Enable children to develop characteristics of effective learning, which will enable them to become independent, resourceful and resilient learners now and throughout their education.

• To effectively support the transition from Nursery to Reception and Reception into Key Stage One.

• Provide high expectations encouraging children to develop perseverance and self-belief so that they can problem-solve and reach their full potential from their various starting points.

• To prepare children to achieve a Good Level of Development(GLD) and the Early Learning Goals at the end of the Foundation Stage and ensure children make at least good progress from their starting points.

• Provide children opportunities to develop their sense of wellbeing and ability to regulate their feelings so that they feel confident in our community and are equipped with all the tools they need to transition to Year 1 effectively

• To work in partnership with parents and carers to encourage independent, happy learners who thrive in school and reach their full potential from their various starting points;

At Longmoor, we thrive for the best for not only our children to grow but also our team. Our EYFS practitioners are passionate about impacting your child's learning journey seeking individual training  based on the needs of the individual adults and cohorts of children. Two of the EYFS Team are engaged with EYFS Leadership Training, ensuring that our school’s approach is research based, and that there is leadership capacity in development.

Our staff have attend various training sessions to better their subject knowledge and the needs of the class such as 

• Sign Along 

• Speech and Language

• Forest School 

• Phonics

The EYFS Team get regular time together. These two strands of the school’s strategy ensures that the phase if staffed by experts, who have the opportunity to disseminate to the full team, and there is a shared ownership of the phase as any developments are collaborative.