Page Park Preschool - Forest School

Philosophy: Manager plans an ambitious curriculum with high expectations.

Activities: Children lead their own learning and know where to find resources to extend their ideas.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff implement the curriculum well, embedding children's prime areas of development to underpin future learning.

Communication: Staff work closely with parents to share important information.

Community Building: Parents confirm how well staff keep them informed of their children's progress and care.

Programs and Resources: All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, benefit fully from their early education.

Staff Training: Staff have good opportunities to attend training to develop their skills and knowledge.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff are exceptional role models and demonstrate perseverance.

Safeguarding Training: The manager and staff have a good understanding of safeguarding procedures.

Play and Learning Integration: Children become confident communicators, including those learning English as an additional language.

Transition to Primary School: Children make good progress in the healthy environment.

Diversity Management: Staff value children's first languages, encouraging them to share and teach some words.

Child Safety Management: Staff vigilantly supervise the children and carry out effective risk assessments of the enclosed park.

Children's Safety and Security: Children know to walk around the outside of a rope to the manager, where they use a long fork to toast their marshmallows on an open fire.

Teaching Personal Safety: Children point out fungi on a tree and know why they must not touch it.

Happiness and Settling: Children soon settle and become excited by the possibilities of what they can do in the environment.