Our Curriculum

Intent – At Linden House we have adopted the method of in the moment planning and combine this with both adult and child led activities to ensure that we provide children with a broad and balanced curriculum. We incorporate children’s current interests, curiosities and needs and extend on these to ensure that we cover the 7 areas of learning in the EYFS and support children on their leaning adventure and create next steps. Each room will have aspirations for their current cohort of children that will provide them with the support and challenges required to develop. These will be adapted to ensure that children with additional needs receive the same opportunities but differentiated to meet their individual learning needs and capabilities.

Implementation – At Linden House first and foremost strive to establish positive relationships with our parent/carers as we recognise them as their child’s first educators. We provide extensive paperwork in order to gather information from our parent/carers about their children to provide us with starting points and enable us to understand and plan for their children’s current needs and interests. Staff observe, listen and have quality interactions with the children, so they can catch those teachable moments and provide an environment, resources and activities that reflect this. This enables staff to provide meaningful opportunities for them to build on the children’s curiosities, interests and needs.

Impact – At Linden house we measure the impact of the above by observing children’s engagement and through reflection on what and how this could be improved. Staff and parents upload pictures and videos to Tapestry and then statements are flagged within the 7 areas of learning to demonstrate learning outcomes. We use initial assessments when children first start with us to create a starting point, termly summative assessments are carried out for staff to be able to highlight what the children are doing well and what needs support. Two-year assessments are carried out between 2-3 years and a transition assessment will be carried out for leavers so that other settings are able to provide that continuity of care and educational support. Parents are involved in every assessment process and actively encouraged to contribute.

At Linden House we want to offer the children resources and an environment that creates awe and wonder. In order to achieve this, we offer the following.

Experienced and passionate Staff
Home Corners
Cosy areas
Book areas
Role play
Loose parts
Open ended
Tough trays
Curiosity box/boards
Construction/vehicles/blocks/
Musical instruments
Playground equipment
Real life resources
Play dough areas
Natural resources
Music and instruments
ICT
Mark making
Malleable materials
Tools
Small world
Art & Crafts
Heuristic baskets
Fidget baskets
Water/sand/mud
Puzzles/sorting/flash cards/numbers/matching/shapes
Life cycle/ nature/ habitats/ plants

At Linden House we have books displayed clearly, that are always available for children to access form babies through to preschool.
Story books, rhymes, and songs are share with parents so they can continue the learning experience at home.
Staff will provide extensions of learning by creating and adding props to support children’s play.
Children are read and sung to daily, and they will have opportunities to self-select books to either look through independently or share with an adult o read with them.
Staff will read or sing a favourite book/song regularly, so children start to learn this by heart and to promote recognition, making a connection, understanding, listening skills and vocabulary.