Bo-Peep Nursery
Children's Needs
At Bo-Peep and Little Bo-Peep we ensure that we apply the EYFS subjects in interesting and innovative ways.
Child Development
Every child is a unique individual with their own characteristics and temperament.
Development is a continuous, complex interaction of environmental and genetic factors in which the body, brain and behaviour become more complex. Children mature at different rates and at different times in their lives.
Early relationships strongly influence how children develop and having close relationships with carers is very important.
A Competent Learner
Play and other imaginative and creative activities help children to make sense of their experience and 'transform' their knowledge, fostering cognitive development.
Language, thinking and learning are interlinked; they depend on and promote each other's development.
What children can do is the starting point for learning.
Children learn better by doing, and by doing things with other people who are more competent, rather than just by being told.
A Skilful Communicator
Children are sociable and curious, and they explore the world through relationships with others and through all their senses.
Children develop their competence in communicating through having frequent, enjoyable interactions with other people, in contexts that they understand.
Children learn to communicate in many ways, not just by talking, but also in non-verbal ways such as gestures, facial expressions and gaze direction, in drawing, writing and singing, and through dance, music and drama.
Challenges & Dilemmas
How to meet the differing and competing needs of every child, while being fair about time spent with individual children.
Listening carefully and waiting for a child who gets excited or pauses a lot when they are trying to communicate, so that they can complete what they wanted to say.
Recognising and praising effort as well as achievement so that all children develop positive attitudes to themselves as learner.
