Curriculum

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Children play to make sense of the world around them, and to find meaning in an experience by connecting it to something already known. Through play, children express and expand their understanding of their experiences.

Look at children (or adults) playing, often smiling and laughing. Of course, play may have its frustrations and challenges (Who gets the first turn? Why can’t I make this block building stay up?), but the overall feeling is one of enjoyment, motivation, thrill, and pleasure.

Play and learning are not static. Children play to practice skills, try out possibilities, revise hypotheses and discover new challenges, leading to deeper learning. 

 Watch children playing, and you will usually see that they become deeply involved, often combining physical, mental, and verbal engagement. 

 Play allows children to communicate ideas, to understand others through social interaction, paving the way to build deeper understanding and more powerful relationships. 

We focus on supporting children to use the toilet, wipe their own nose, and dress themselves. Developing independence gives children a sense of self-belief and often encourages them to want to be more independent with lots of other things too.

Sharing and interacting with other children is a key skill to help your child interact with the world around them. We spend time promoting children's social skills, through role modelling, praise and encouragement and imaginative role play. 

We encourage our children to make healthy choices and prepare them for lunchtime at school. So they can use a knife and fork, cut their food and open their own packets if they have a packed lunch.

Good communication skills are vital for children starting school who will need to be confident to speak to their teachers and take their first steps in making  friends.  At school, your child will receive lots of spoken instructions every day. They’ll need to adapt quickly from what they are doing to listen to what their teacher or another member of staff is saying.

We ensure our children have lots of opportunities to develop their fine motor skills. One of the most important elements that enable a child to write are these skills, they refer to the use of small muscles in the fingers, to enable them to hold a pencil and practice writing their own name. At BeBright we bring our books to life, so our children start there school journey with a love for books.

Being able to count up to 10, we spend lots of time practising and encourage them to develop their number sense, this is an awareness of what each number actually represents and not just reciting the numbers in the correct order.