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<\/span><\/p>\n We recognise the importance of play in early childhood development. Our Home from Home Learning Environment approach provides ample opportunities for children to explore, create, and learn through play. Key features include open-ended materials, imaginative play areas, and a focus on social and emotional development. We have designed a learning environment that encourages free play, exploration, and creativity, providing open-ended materials to spark the imagination and actively engaging in play with children to support their learning. The approach is child-led, fosters creativity, and promotes the development of social skills. This pedagogy of play-based learning includes developing reading, writing and numeracy skills. Our job is to become play partners, discovering what children already know and how we can extend this. Children coming to our nursery can investigate roles such as photographers, police officers, gardeners, cooks, shopkeepers, news readers, cleaners, vets, and bankers.<\/p>\n Role-play environments allow children to engage in the experiences fully. There is no correct or wrong way to play; the only limitation is their imagination. They create a language-rich environment where children can interact with each other, and adults can chat comfortably and play with the children. Adults can introduce new language and engage in two-way conversations as children create play scenarios, interact and share ideas. To progress through life, children need to be able to communicate and hold conversations. They also need knowledge of the world in which they live. Children can make sense of the world around them by exploring and investigating current, relevant, and exciting things.<\/p>\n We use three simple concepts:<\/p>\n \u2022 Chat<\/strong>: encourage talking but, crucially, reciprocal communication.<\/p>\n \u2022 Play<\/strong>: language thrives when children interact and explore playfully and creatively.<\/p>\n \u2022 Read<\/strong>: sharing books, adults and children talking together.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our children will leave us with the essential life skills they need for their next adventure, be this school or life in general. They will respect and care for each other and their environment, be able to make friends, resolve conflict, solve problems, follow rules, and manage their behaviour by understanding their emotions. 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Give Your Child The Best Start In Life . . .<\/h2>\n
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Aims<\/span><\/h2>\r\nAt Little Potters we believe that the first five years are the most important in a child\u2019s life. Never again are we able to learn as much and as quickly as we do in those first five years.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nWith good quality early learning your child will get a good start in life. We aim to ensure that, their learning environment, and their interactions with adults and friends are built on a foundation of respect. In order to define Little Potters we have carried out a great deal of research and rather than choose one source of information we have taken advice from the findings of the EPPE project the EYFS and the respectful care element of Emmi Pikler. We believe this respects the fact that children are unique and are born with a natural thirst for knowledge.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n
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Philosophy<\/span><\/h2>\r\nThe children at Little Potters will be respected by adults and in turn will learn to respect their environment, the adults and other children in the nursery.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nChildren will be encouraged to help each other and explore their environment together free from adult interruption but knowing that the adults are around when they become frustrated and need a little guidance to explore further.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nMost importantly of all at Little Potters life between the ages of birth and 5 will be fun and free from any pressure.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nWe offer a stimulating and caring environment where children can develop and grow at their own rate. We will provide a caring and exciting environment where each child\u2019s individual needs are catered for no matter how complex these needs are. We realise that every child is an individual and great importance is given to this fact.<\/span>\r\n\r\nAt Little Potters we build our caring and learning philosophy around four elements,\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n
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