Purposeful Pedagogy

The Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework outlines the 7 areas of learning that we, as educators, need to focus on nurturing to ensure your child is school ready by five - they are Communication & Language; Physical Development; Emotional Development; Literacy; Numeracy; Understanding the World; and Arts and Expressive Design. And for us, the best framework to track your child's development against those 7 areas, is Birth to Five Matters, which provides us, and you, the milestones we need to secure to prove to you, your child and Ofsted that we're delivering the educational value we know we offer in Early Years Education. Click on the image to download the framework in full, or read on for the principles behind pedagogy in early years education

We believe that the early years is the most crucial period in a child's educational experience as it forms the foundations from which their future cognitive capacities spring. As it does for their values - the agency and attitude with which they will approach life, its challenges and the people within it. We focus on a different moral / ethic each month - those that we believe to be universal to all cultures and work to embody those values in the behaviours of our teachers and children alike.

We've developed a proprietary multinational curriculum that investigates 12 regions of the world, spending time to interrogate the people, the places, the animals, objects and cultural activities ( arts, literature, food, dance, you name it) of a particular country within that region. Ultimately, we want our children to graduate excited by the world, the people and cultures within it and primed with a belief that differences are to be celebrated

Our intercultural education programme  would not deliver without a focus on second language acquisition. We have specialist language teachers in the team to focus on developing fluencies in languages that matter to the future and demonstrating all of the cognitive benefits that immersion can offer