Our Curriculum
Learning through fun, play and exploring!
At First Steps Nursery, we encourage children to learn through fun, play, and exploration. Our curriculum is built around six Golden Threads that run through every child’s learning journey: Belonging, Wellbeing, Communication, Curiosity, Independence, and Movement. These threads are woven into everyday experiences, helping children feel safe, valued, and confident as they learn and grow.
Through warm relationships, carefully planned activities, and play-based learning, we provide opportunities for children to develop their social skills, self-confidence, independence, communication, curiosity, and practical life skills. Every child is supported to learn at their own pace, build friendships, express their creativity and imagination, and reach their full potential.
Our curriculum follows the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework, covering all seven areas of learning and development. We plan engaging, meaningful experiences that support children’s progress while ensuring they learn in a safe, healthy, and nurturing environment. The EYFS is made up of three Prime Areas and four Specific Areas of learning, underpinned by the Characteristics of Effective Learning, which encourage children to become motivated, resilient, and confident lifelong learners.
Communication & Language
This involves all children having the opportunity to experience an environment rich with language, develop confidence to express their feelings and needs and to listen and speak to others in a variety of social situations.
Physical Development
This involves all children having the opportunity to interact and be active in their learning and develop control, movement and coordination. Children learn about the importance of physical activity and to make healthy choices when it comes to food times.
Personal, Social & Emotional Development
This involves encouraging children to develop a positive sense of themselves and of other people. To form strong friendships and develop respect for others, for their social skills and learning how to manage their feelings. This also supports children to develop confidence in themselves and understand appropriate behaviour.
Literacy
This involves encouraging children to develop a positive sense of themselves and of other people. To form strong friendships and develop respect for others, for their social skills and learning how to manage their feelings.
Mathematics
This allows children the opportunity to develop and improve on counting skills, using and understanding numbers, calculating simple adding and subtracting problems and being able to describe shapes, space and measures.
Expressive Arts & Design
This enables children to share thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in music, dance, movement, art, role-play, design and technology. Children can explore and play with a wide range of media and materials.
Understanding The World
This involves children observing and finding out about people, places, technology and the environment through opportunities to explore and make sense of the world around them and their community.
Here are some videos of Storytime with Roz who is a member of the baby room team.
We hope you enjoy listening to Roz with your little one.