Learning Environment
Early Years Learning Environment
Our Early Years Centre offers our youngest children an exceptional first educational experience, which will introduce them to the joys of learning. It combines a curriculum that is stimulating, creative and integrated, with specific guidance on personal, social and emotional development.
The International Early Years Curriculum is being used in over 140 schools in 47 countries around the world. It was launched in 2016 by a group of leading experts in children’s learning known as Fieldwork Education, an organization withy thirty years of experience providing curriculum to 2,000 schools around the world.
It provides a safe, stimulating child-centred environment designed for your children to thrive socially, intellectually and physically.
Class sizes are small, with a maximum of 25 children in each class. Each class has two teachers one fluent in English and one fluent in Arabic. Specialist teachers join us for Music, PE and Art, and we encourage our families to come and support us in promoting learning.
We believe it is essential for your children to feel happy, confident, secure and cared for as they learn. We promote creative and imaginative opportunities for children to develop the core skills of early reading, writing and numeracy. The EYC curriculum is an integrated model using the best practice encompassed in the thematic approach of the International Early Years Curriculum (IEYC).
There are four key strands of learning that underpin all learning and development:
- Independence and interdependence
- Communicating
- Enquiring
- Healthy living and physical wellbeing
In addition, the IEYC is designed around eight learning principles which are considered essential to children's learning and development:
1. The earliest years of life are important in their own right.
2. Children should be supported to learn and develop at their own unique pace.
3. Play is an essential aspect of all children's learning and development.
4. Learning happens when developmentally-appropriate, teacher-scaffolded and child initiated experiences harness children's natural curiosity in an enabling environment.
5. Independent and interdependent learning experiences create a context for personal development and are the foundation of international mindedness.
6. Knowledge and skills development lead to an increasing sense of understanding when children are provided with opportunities to explore and express their ideas in multiple ways.
7. Ongoing assessment, in the form of evaluation and reflection, is effective when it involves a learning-link with the home.
8. Learning should be motivating, engaging and fun, opening up a world of wonder for children where personal interests can flourish.