Butterflies Room
3-5 Years

Preschool Curriculum Overview:

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Our Butterflies curriculum prepares children for the next exciting stage of their journey while ensuring that learning remains playful, meaningful and enjoyable.

 

School readiness at Little Explorers is about much more than being able to write a name or recognise numbers. We want children to leave us as confident, curious and independent learners who can communicate their needs, build relationships, manage everyday routines and approach new experiences with confidence.

 

Our curriculum supports children to:

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• Develop confident conversation, storytelling and communication skills

• Listen to others, share ideas and contribute within a group

• Develop friendships, cooperative play, empathy and understanding of others

• Build independence in dressing, toileting, eating and personal care

• Strengthen pencil control, mark making and early writing skills

• Develop awareness of letters, sounds and their own name

• Build confidence with numbers, counting, patterns, shape and problem solving

• Develop imagination and creativity through art, design, construction and role play

• Investigate, compare, predict and ask questions about the world around them

• Develop resilience, concentration and the confidence to keep trying when something is challenging

• Learn to follow routines, make choices and take increasing responsibility for themselves and their environment

• Prepare emotionally and practically for a positive transition to school

 

Our practitioners balance child-led exploration with carefully planned adult interactions and experiences, using their knowledge of each child to identify what they already know and what they are ready to learn next.

 

By the time our children leave Little Explorers, our aim is for them to feel proud of what they can do, excited to learn and ready to embrace their next adventure.