Early Years Ethos and Values
At Mickley First School, every child is important to us. We celebrate diversity and invite all children and families in with a warm welcome. Our aim is to ensure all of our children feel happy, secure and curious about the world around them, helping them to become independent, enthusiastic lifelong learners.
To achieve this, we work as an Early Years unit where both Nursery and Reception share the learning environment together, challenging and supporting each other. This ensures your child’s transition through the Early Years is seamless. Our practitioners plan opportunities and new experiences to provoke curiosity, which supports the development of new interests and ideas. We know the importance of early experiences and skilfully provide the foundations for lifelong learning.
We have designed a play-based curriculum that includes a wide and varied selection of engaging learning experiences through a balance of planned, sequenced and purposeful learning as well as a mix of child-initiated and adult-guided play. This enables each child to follow their own unique learning journey catered to and adapted to their own interests. Our planned learning sequences provide the tools for children to retrieve prior knowledge in a range of situations and experiences. As a result, our children know more and remember more.
We also recognise that parents are their child’s first educators and we value the importance of you in your child’s learning journey. We prioritise working alongside parents so we organise many opportunities in school across the year to involve parents as much as possible. This can involve joining us on trips, book reading days, pyjamarama, craft events, theatre visits and end of term celebrations. We also use ClassDojo, an online learning platform, to share photos with parents at home and celebrate your child’s achievement as a team.
