Our Intent
The support we offer
We aim to support individual children to be happy, confident and engaged in their learning and development. Our intention is that children are motivated to become:
• Curious
• Resilient
• Empathetic
• Social
• Independent
• Passionate
Through our core opportunities and experiences we strive towards making a positive impact for children. Our
implementation of this approach is through the delivery of child focused, varied and rich play opportunities which
inspire active learning and critical thinking through playing and exploring.
We believe in play
We believe in play which is child-led: freely engaged in and enjoyed by children. Play which is sensitively supported and extended by adults. Play which is guided towards specific educational outcomes.
Free play is crucial to children’s development. It is enjoyable and it helps children to develop their social skills and their self-regulation. Playing freely helps children to become more imaginative, more creative, and become better prepared to tackle difficult problems and solve them. High-quality play is supported by well organised environments which respond to children’s interests, and which widen those interests by introducing children to new materials, experiences, activities, and artistic expressions.