Curriculum
Our provision for children aged 3-6 integrates care with Montessori education. Part time and full time places are available.
We believe that early years education
provides a foundation upon which children can build for the rest of
their lives. We aim to provide a range of experiences, teaching skills
that can be developed in the future.
Lincolnshire Montessori
provides a broad, balanced and exciting curriculum based on learning
through first hand experiences, through which the child can develop
knowledge, understanding and skills. It is our aim to be aware of individual
needs of the children and provide for their intellectual, physical,
social and emotional needs. We also provide opportunities to develop
confidence, independence and self-control as well as respect for others.
Most importantly we want to provide a happy, relaxed environment where
children feel safe, secure and have fun.
Montessori teachers seek to guide rather than control. They are not there to impart knowledge but to provide opportunities to learn and an environment in which this is most easily achieved. Learning is invited rather than imposed, encouraged rather than enforced. Equally, the emphasis is on giving the child the opportunity to progress at their own speed, rather than driving
towards rapid advance, early achievement
or any other externally fixed goals.
Montessori addresses a range of learning
and experience that is far broader than any state-prescribed curriculum.
It focuses on six core areas of learning:
| Montessori | Early Years Foundation Stage |
| practical life; | Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Physical Development |
| sensorial; | Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Physical Development |
| language; | Communication Language and Literacy |
| mathematics; | Problem Solving Reasoning and Numeracy |
| cultural, | Knowledge and Understanding of the World |
| creative activities | Creative Development |
Carefully structured activities in these
areas, often using specially developed Montessori equipment, make it
easier for the child, providing them with a broad platform of skills
and knowledge that will support all their future learning.
In September 2008 the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) came into force placing, for the first time, a legal requirement on all early years’ providers to comply with the Government’s learning, development and welfare requirements for 0-5 year-olds. In addition the EYFS obliges early years’ providers to deliver these requirements through the approach specified in the statutory guidance.
EYFS is based on four principles which are each attached to a ‘theme’. The learning and development requirements of the EYFS are organised within these themes:
- Every child is a competent learner from birth who can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured (A Unique Child).
- Children learn to be strong and independent from a base of loving and secure relationships with parents and/or a key person (Positive Relationships).
- The environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children's development and learning (Enabling Environments).
- Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates and all areas of Learning and Development are equally important and inter-connected (Learning and Development).