Logo of Bader Farm Pre-School Playgroup featuring a bear and a badger on a yellow background with black text.

Curriculum

Communication and Language ;

We place speech, language, and active listening at the heart of everyday learning. Through expressive storytelling, interactive nursery rhymes, daily singing, and rich, playful conversations, children naturally expand their vocabulary and discover the joy of expression. We create a supportive, engaging environment where every child feels heard, builds confidence in their spoken fluency, and develops a deep, lasting understanding of the world around them.

A bulletin board displaying various children's song lyrics along with illustrations, including a farmer, boat, teapot, girl, spider, caterpillar, rain, ducks, and a sheep, with a yellow background and colorful pin decorations.
Physical Development:

We support your child’s total development through active play and hands-on learning. By emphasising fun, we help children build core physical skills like balance, coordination, and confident movement. Through activities like construction play and puzzles, children practice fine motor skills to master tools like pencils and scissors with care and precision. Above all, we nurture healthy lifestyles, giving children the skills, support, and time they need to make positive choices every day.

Children attending a classroom activity with a dental model to teach about teeth.
A table filled with various dental hygiene and dental practice items, including a Mr. Potato Head toy with a toothbrush in its mouth, white dental molds, a disposable face mask, toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, gloves, and other dental tools.

Literacy:

They become familiar with books and learn that the written word carries meaning. They are given opportunities to write letters and words and recognise their sound and purpose. A love of books is encouraged with drama and inventive play.

Children reading books inside a wooden playhouse with educational signs displaying weather-related words and images, outside in a park or playground area.
A classroom bulletin board with a large paper butterfly decorated with colorful collage on a brown background. Various labels indicate days of the week and other notes, including the title 'The Hungry Caterpillar' with a drawing of the caterpillar and a butterfly.

Understanding of the World:

Children are presented with a range of materials and experiences to stimulate their interest in the world around them. They learn the properties of objects and substances. With safe and well-maintained equipment they can experiment with modern technology. Outings and visitors provide new opportunities for wider experiences.

Group of children and adults standing in front of an ambulance, outdoors on a sunny day.
A small outdoor sink with cleaning supplies, next to a potted plant, and a colorful poster of autumn trees with children playing in fallen leaves. On the black surface below, there is a tray with small pumpkins, a timer, and some scattered stones.

Expressive art and design:

Children are able to experience the joy of creating expressions in many ways. They are provided with a wide variety of art and craft materials and opportunity to participate in imaginative games, music and dance.

Plastic cookie cutters, two rolling pins, two balls of pink clay, a green plastic knife, and a red pair of scissors are arranged on a wooden table.
A black metal tub filled with sand, with several small metal bowls and spoons placed on top, some filled with sand. Two large shells are also on the sand.

Mathematics:

With the guidance of adults the children practice a variety of early mathematical skills. They learn terminology for shape, size, volume, number position etc. They become aware of mathematical sequences through games, songs and rhymes.

A black tray with a vintage balance scale, decorative pinecones, seashells, numbered stones, and various wooden geometric shapes.
Colorful educational toys on a wooden table, including a card with animals and numbers from one to ten, and another card with colorful numbered shapes.