All our children have many opportunities from free-flow play, child-led and adult-led activities to learn through their play.
Their ongoing development is further enhanced as we follow the guidelines set down by the governments Early Years Foundation Stage commonly referred to as the EYFS. These guidelines are mandatory and were updated in January 2024.
Busikids Nursery Manager, Charlotte Angel, ensures that all updates are understood and implemented by our professional team of nursery practitioners and that they also attend regular training sessions and staff meetings. This then ensures continuous provision for all the children.
Each room has its own way of planning, incorporating observations for all the children to help understand the progress each child is making, enabling the team to plan for their future learning experiences. Working this way ensures that all children are given tailored opportunities to aid their further development in all areas of learning.
The children's interests and home life are incorporated into the curriculum wherever possible. We teach this through the materials and resources we use and also invite a variety of professionals to come in and talk to the children, as well as going out and about on walks, ensuring our activites reflect a variety of religions and cultures, local communities and the much wider world.
We use a system called EYMan, and EY App for parents, to keep parents informed of their child's daily activities and progress, with 'moments' and photographs, sent throughout the day, this can be a record of achievements showing a child's progress through the various areas of development.
Every child attending Busikids is allocated a key worker. While all staff will participate in the care of your child, the named key worker has a special bond and responsibility towards your child.
The key person works alongside parents and carers to ensure that there is continuity of care for the child thus supporting the child’s emotional well-being. The key person will want you to share information about your child - the more you can tell them the better the relationship they will be able to form with your child and plan how to meet their needs.
The key person role is important. Research and evidence show that children thrive when their needs are met by special people that they know, trust and respect. Familiarity, pattern and predictability support children’s personal development and helps them understand who they are and what they can do. Children can concentrate and learn more effectively if they're not under stress or pressure, so having a key person who is attentive and knows the child well will support children in their personal, social and emotional development.
The key person is someone you can talk to about any concerns, they will know your child well and will be able to provide advice and support with all aspects of learning and development. You will be offered regular times to talk to your child’s key person and discuss your child’s learning and progress.
In addition to sharing daily information with you, key workers are also responsible for maintaining a confidential record of your child’s development this is called their Learning Journal.
We also operate a ‘buddy’ system, so if your key worker is away you still have a ‘go to’ person
The Busikids Curriculum 2025
As you may be aware, in September 2021, the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Statutory Framework was revised, for all early year’s settings. The Government’s two main aims for changing the EYFS were:
The EYFS has also been updated since, in January 2024, to reflect recent operational changes mostly.
Please click on the link below:
Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage (publishing.service.gov.uk)
At Busikids, we offer an inclusive environment which supports all children to feel welcome and excited to be with their friends. Where the provision is creative, constructive and imaginative, and reflects their home life and community as well as nursery life, and also the world they may not have experienced.
To do this, we are giving our playrooms a makeover and a refresh once again, to enable the children to feel more comfortable, and inquisitive at the same time. We have chosen to follow aspects from The Curiosity Approach, Parents (thecuriosityapproach.com) , which –
Photographs of our new environment are being uploaded
We have reviewed how and what the children are learning, again. We took into account our children’s individual needs, our families and wider community, and what the children could learn from us. The result is The Busikids Curriculum 2025 please follow this link for full details.
We will also be looking at the underpinning behaviours children use in order to learn, called Characteristics of Effective Learning, and using these to help us to provide better experiences for the children too. These are divided into three groups
Creating and thinking critically - children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things.
Playing and exploring - finding out and exploring, playing with what they know, being willing to ‘have a go.’
Active learning - being involved and concentrating, keeping trying, enjoying achieving what they set out to do. Effective learning must be meaningful to a child, so that they are able to use what they have learned and apply it in new situations3.
Every child is unique and
therefore, not all children may achieve all goals. It is ok, we will do our best to help them
reach for the stars…