Our Aims

• To provide an inclusive, welcoming environment that respects and promotes diversity and challenges anti-discriminatory practice
  
• To meet the individual needs of all children; helping them to progress at their own rate, while extending their knowledge, understanding and skills
  
• To provide a rich, varied environment supporting children’s learning and development; giving them the confidence to explore and learn in a secure, safe, yet challenging indoor and outdoor spaces
  
• To provide children with a Key Person, giving children the reassurance to feel safe and cared for; also building on-going relationships with their parents
  
• To have a strong parent partnership
  
• To use the EYFS framework to help children learn and develop through play
  
• To encourage children to, and support them, in forming effective relationships with other children and adults
  
• To provide a wide range of resources, activities and opportunities to broaden children’s experiences and awareness of the world around them
  
• To provide opportunities for, and support children in self-care; helping them to gain a sense of self-respect and concern about their own personal hygiene and care. As well as supporting the development of independent skills.
  
• To build relationships with local schools, and other settings, to ease future transitions
  
• To support and develop every child to become secure, confident, imaginative and creative
  
• To make our pre-school a ‘fun place to be’
  

We support the UK Government initiative that ‘Every Child Matters’ (2003)

We aim for the children who attend Harrietsham Preschool to:

• Stay Safe
• Be Healthy
• Enjoy and Achieve
  
• Make a Positive Contribution
  
• Achieve Economic Well-Being
  

Our provision reflects the four key themes and commitments of the EYFS

• A Unique Child
  
• Positive Relationships
  
• Enabling Environments
  
• Learning and Development