How Your Children Learn & Develop

How Your Children Learn & Develop


At Bears Hideaway we follow the Development Matters curriculum and use this to support the children with their development.
“YOU CAN WRITE MULTIPLE WORDS TO CAPTURE THE MOMENT BUT ,
MISS OUT ON THE MOMENT THAT IS REALLY IN NEED OF BEING CAPTURED”

Your child is on a learning journey while at Bears Hideaway and we support this by:
- Conversations with Parents at settling in sessions and completion of forms to assess if there are any concerns - through liasing with Parents about their children’s development, behaviour, social skills and home life before they started nursery we can know your child better.
- All children are appointed a key person who, however we also ensure the children develop strong relationships with all the staff in their room. The staff implement activities to broaden the child’s learning experiences with support and guidance from management who oversee the learning and development aspects.
- 4 week review form which is completed when a child starts at nursery and then shared with Parents.
- ‘All about me’ form will be completed by Parents and used to assist what we know about your child’s life.
- ‘Look at me’ weekly photos which are sent via whats app with a short statement  linked to something your child is working on coming from the child’s voice, for example “I tried hard to use my feet and pushed on the pedals – I moved a little bit!” 
- Development sheets completed by staff who will observe and assess the children and note any skills (to develop / are excelling)
- Brainstorming ideas occurs with other team members where necessary to establish a combined view of a child and their development and responded appropriately where required.
- 7 areas of development form that we ask Parents to complete about their child’s development at home every 16 weeks.
- Parents comments / feedback form - this form comes back to the key worker to review before their parents evening. 
- Parents open evenings where Parents can come into the setting and see their children playing with the toys and their friends. The staff discuss the progress of the children but if there are any concerns, in depth conversations needing to be held this is arranged separately.  
- Pathway to Progression forms are completed by the staff to track children’s development and see where we can move them onto through scaffolding play.




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