Based on the general principles, the Foundation Stage at Maidenbower Infant School and Nursery aims to:
- Provide a safe and stimulating environment in which children feel happy and secure.
- Encourage the emotional, social, physical, creative and intellectual development of children.
- Promote the welfare of children.
- Encourage positive attitudes to self and others, and develop confidence and self esteem.
- Create opportunities for play.
- Provide opportunities to stimulate interest and imagination.
- Extend children’s abilities to communicate ideas and feelings in a variety of ways.
The achievement of these aims involves much more than organising a set of resources for learning. Values and attitudes are communicated to children by what adults do and say and by the expectations set for their learning and behaviour. Children also learn from the quality of relationships among staff and between staff and children and the co-operation of staff with parents and the community. In thinking about how these aims are achieved, it is important to consider the ways in which staff value:
- The individual child.
- Equal opportunities and social justice.
- Partnership with parents/carers.
- The importance of the community.
- Education as a life long process.
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