Intent, Implementation and Impact

Intent is about our staff knowing what we want our children to learn.

Implementation is about staff knowing how we want to deliver that learning.

Impact defines what our children have achieved and measures how effective this has been.

These elements have always been the fundamentals of quality first teaching and learning here in our school.

For each of the seven areas of learning and development we considered three key questions;

What is it like to be a child in our provision?
What skills and knowledge we want our children to leave us with?
How ready will children be for the next stage in their learning?

Areas of Learning and Development

Communication and Language

INTENT STATEMENT:

At Turncroft Nursery School we foster and capitalise on children’s instinctive need and desire to communicate by:

Role modelling the qualities and characteristics of a good communicator
Immersing children in a rich environment of words, sounds, rhythm, verbal and non-verbal expression
Engaging children in conversation
Providing genuine reasons, irresistible provocations and a real purpose to listen and talk
Valuing the diﬀerent ways and means that children use to communicate

IMPLEMENTATION STATEMENT:

Communication and Language is a fundamental core skill. It is the key to enabling children to achieve and provides the strong foundations for future learning. It is promoted through a language rich ethos and environment in which adults narrate, ask questions, model thinking, provide a running commentary, repeat and extend language and give children reasons and a desire to talk.

At the planning stage new and ambitious vocabulary linked to the theme is identified and displayed within our environment in the form of words and sentences acting as visual prompts for adults and children. Careful consideration is also given to how children develop listening, attention and understanding to improve speaking skills. Within our school adults actively seek and plan for opportunities to provoke talk. It is also taught through direct teaching e.g. daily group times, snack times and story and rhyme time.

A Talking Table is used to display intriguing objects and pictures and children are encouraged to describe, discuss and ask questions about what they see.
The Investigation Area is used to pose questions and extend language through observing change, growth and new life.
Enhancements are regularly added to all areas of the provision as a stimulus to inspire interest and engage children in talk e.g. setting up a scenario in the role play area such as a burglary or party to encourage discussion and problem solving. Adults have a sound knowledge and deep understanding of how children learn to talk. They move fluidly around the environment modelling the qualities of a good communicator and searching for and capitalising on opportunities to engage with children in conversation.

IMPACT STATEMENT

By the end of my time at Turncroft Nursery School I will know how to…

Express opinions, feelings and ideas
Ask questions
Retell in sequence
Use a range of vocabulary
Make positive relationships
Give reasons
Speak in a full sentence
Participate in discussion
Take turns in conversation
Describe and explain

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

INTENT STATEMENT:

In Turncroft Nursery School we create a supportive and nurturing climate and ethos which provides children with a sense of safety, security, belonging and self-worth by:

Establishing and developing mutually respectful relationships with and between adults and children
Understanding children’s unique qualities and attributes so they feel valued and develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others
Knowing and understanding children’s family contexts and dynamics
Setting rules, establishing boundaries, following routines and explaining consequences
Modelling and explaining behaviours and emotions and how to manage and resolve conflict
Empowering children to be independent enabling them to make informed choices and decisions
Using praise to build confidence

IMPLEMENTATION STATEMENT:

Personal, Social and Emotional Development is highly valued and underpinned by British values. Children’s emotional well-being thrives when they have positive and strong relationships with adults and other children. This starts with a clear and robust transition programme. Information is collected about each child through home visits, stay and play sessions, visiting other settings and discussions with parents, carers and key workers. This information is used to inform the design of the environment and helps to focus the learning in the first few weeks of term.

On entry quality time is spent establishing clear structures, routines and boundaries.
Our timetable is planned so that children get to know their new environment, make new friends and build trusting relationships with adults.
The environment is set up to promote independent learning encouraging children to make their own informed decisions and choices.
Praise and mutual respect are corner stones of our behaviour policy and are used to create a positive ethos where children feel equally valued, safe and develop high self-esteem.
Rules are explained and visually displayed so that children understand that actions can have consequences and begin to learn to manage their own behaviour.
Circle Time is used for direct teaching of British Values and specific Personal, Social and Emotional knowledge

e.g. keeping safe, understanding emotions and appropriate behaviours.

Adults understand how to create a nurturing climate and ethos by:

Providing good role models of how a good citizen should behave
Demonstrating how to be a good friend
Showing respect and fairness and are consistent in their approach
Listening carefully to children, responding to their needs, helping them understand their emotions and empathising and communicating with children and their families.

IMPACT STATEMENT:

By the end of my time at Turncroft Nursery School I will know how to…

Make positive relationships
Dress and undress
Persevere
Manage risk and keep myself safe
Compromise and negotiate to resolve conflict
Manage my own personal hygiene
Share and take turns
Wait for my turn
Focus my attention
Follow rules and manage my own behaviour
Express and talk about my emotions
Follow instructions

Physical Development

INTENT STATEMENT:

At Turncroft Nursery School we nurture children’s strong need and desire to be physically active which builds the foundations for other areas of their development by:

Building children’s strength, stamina, balance, co-ordination and dexterity
Developing a range of large and small movements which they can control
Improving and refining children’s control and manipulation of a variety of tools
Instilling a sense of confidence in children’s own physical abilities enabling them to negotiate spaces
Promoting independence by teaching them to make decisions and choices that will keep them healthy and safe

IMPLENTATION STATEMENT:

Adults have a sound knowledge and deep understanding of physical development and the key aspects of gross and fine motor skills. They know that fine motor development relies on children having well developed gross motor strength and recognise the strong links between physical development and the ability to control and manipulate writing tools. Within the environment adults actively encourage children to build their strength, stamina, balance, co-ordination and dexterity.

Physical Development is valued and promoted through:

Weekly movement sessions
Capitalising on transition times to promote gross motor skills e.g. stand in the line on one leg.
Regular Wake and Shake sessions focussing on the four key aspects of gross motor development.
Setting up a Finger Gym and a Fastening Station which oﬀer weekly challenges that develop wrist and finger strength, finger isolation and pincer grip.
Equipping our provision with tools and diﬀerent vertical surfaces to promote core strength, wrist strength and crossing the midline.
Situating a Tool Station in, the centre of the provision oﬀering a wide variety of mark making tools and equipment e.g. hole punches, staples, treasury tags and paper clips to support the development of muscle strength and the control and manipulation of real tools.
Providing authentic resources throughout our provision e.g. real kitchen equipment.
Using the outdoor area daily for Physical Development where small apparatus is organised, displayed and available for children to use independently.
Setting up a mini gym and yoga station which are equipped with resources that enable children to develop their strength, stamina, balance and co-ordination.
Equipping the outdoor area with a base layer of resources to promote balance and upper body strength e.g. balance bikes, scooters, wheeled vehicles, wheelbarrows, buckets and weighty object

IMPACT STATEMENT:

By the end of my time at Turncroft Nursery School I will know how to…

Negotiate space and obstacles safely
Throw, catch and kick a ball
Balance using my core stability
Use a tripod grip
Draw with increasing accuracy

Demonstrate upper body strength
Co-ordinate both sides of my body

Move in a variety of ways
Control a variety of tools
Demonstrate strength and stamina

Literacy: Reading

INTENT STATEMENT:

At Turncrcroft Nursery School we develop enthusiastic emerging readers who take delight in listening to stories, enjoy reading for pleasure and know how to use text to find out information by:

Teaching the knowledge and skills of early reading
Fostering a love of books by sharing and talking about texts
Immersing children in sounds, words, rhythm, rhyme and song
Modelling the pleasure and joy that books provide
Demonstrating that text has meaning
Showing the characteristics of a fluent reader

IMPLEMENTATION STATEMENT:

Reading and the enjoyment of books is highly valued and promoted through daily direct teaching in the form of Phonic sessions, Story and Rhyme Time and listening to children read. Opportunities for children to read within our school and across the curriculum are also planned for and capitalised on.

During the planning process careful consideration is given to the next steps in learning and how this links with phonics and what key texts will be used.

For each theme a key text is carefully identified and explored in detail to help children become familiar with its structure and content.
Supporting texts are also used to expand children’s knowledge and fire their imagination.
New and ambitious vocabulary we want children to read is identified and displayed in the environment in the form of words and sentences.
To help children make connections across their learning each area of the provision is also equipped with relevant fiction and non-fiction texts for children to reference knowledge and stimulate ideas.

A Reading Area is situated within our school. It oﬀers a selection of fiction and non-fiction material and resources connected to the theme, decodable texts linked to chosen phonics approaches and familiar rhymes and stories. The resources are carefully selected and organised on open shelves so that they are visually inviting to children and adults and allow for thoughtful choices.

Adults have a sound knowledge and deep understanding of reading development. They:

Recognise the strong links between reading and phonics and how these life-long skills enable children to develop knowledge in other subjects.
Draw children’s attention to text.
Demonstrate that text has meaning, model the enjoyment of reading and support the application of phonic knowledge and skills.
Actively encourage children to become familiar with the stories and rhymes they have heard through role play, small world play and favourite books.

IMPACT STATEMENT:

By the end of my time at Turncroft Nursery School I will know how to…

Follow print from left to right and top to bottom
Talk about what I have read or the illustrations to a story or non-fiction text
Predict what might happen in a story
Read some decodable words
Understand a story that has been read to me
Retell stories I have heard
Use vocabulary from books in my talk and mark making

Literacy: Writing

INTENT STATEMENT

At Turncroft Nursery School we develop enthusiastic emerging writers who have an enduring and positive attitude to writing, who can form letters and letter shapes and who can draw from a rich store of language and imaginative ideas by:

Valuing the diﬀerent ways that children make marks
Teaching the physical skills which will enable them to control and manipulate writing tools
Teaching how phonemes are represented through graphemes
Teaching letter formation
Providing children with genuine reasons to write
Ensuring that writing tools and materials are readily available
Modelling the pleasure and purpose of writing
Immersing children in an environment of print e.g. vocabulary, sentences, books, labels
Developing children’s vocabulary by rehearsing orally what they are going to write

IMPLEMENTATION STATEMENT:

Writing is valued and promoted through daily direct teaching and purposeful learning opportunities across all areas of our provision.

During the planning process careful consideration is given to the next steps in learning and how children can rehearse and refine their writing skills.
New and ambitious vocabulary we want children to learn and use is identified and displayed in the environment in the form of words and sentences.
A mark making tool station is situated in each room of our provision oﬀering a wide variety of mark making tools and materials.
Vertical surfaces such as white boards and easels are also available indoors and outside
Each area of the provision is equipped with relevant writing resources.
We use sensory experiences to develop children’s confidence and enjoyment in early writing skills. We encourage them to mark make in positions where they feel most comfortable e.g. standing, lying, whilst they are developing their core stability.

Adults have a sound knowledge and deep understanding of child development and they recognise the strong links between physical and communication skills and emerging writers. Within the environment adults actively encourage children to practise and develop gross and fine motor skills and oral communication in readiness for writing. By modelling, suggesting and encouraging they promote ways in which children can record their ideas in diﬀerent ways.We ensure that children are immersed in diﬀerent genres of books promoting an enjoyment of reading, extending their vocabulary and cultivating their imagination. We deliver daily exposure to phonics activities in both direct and incidental teaching.

IMPACT STATEMENT:

By the end of my time at Turncroft Nursery School I will know how to…

Draw on a rich store of language in my writing
Hold a sentence in my head
Control and manipulate a writing tool
Use imaginative ideas in my writing
Write words and tell others what is written

Retracing vertical lines and trace letter shapes
Use a tripod grip
Use and talk about the features of different writing

Mathematics

INTENT STATEMENT:

At Turncroft Nursery School we develop fluent mathematicians who have a deep conceptual understanding of number. We ensure that they are able to provide explanations, give reasons for their answers and tackle future challenges by:

Providing opportunities for children to practise, rehearse and apply mathematical knowledge and skills
Encouraging children to investigate numbers by exploring their characteristics and patterns, understanding how they can be manipulated using diﬀerent operations
Encouraging them to think logically so that they can make connections and solve problems
Fostering children’s acquisition and use of mathematical vocabulary to justify and explain their ideas

IMPLEMENTATION STATEMENT:

Mathematics is valued and promoted through daily direct teaching and purposeful learning opportunities across all areas of provision.

During the planning process careful consideration is given to the next steps in learning. Each area of the provision is equipped with relevant maths resources to enable children to practise and apply their mathematical knowledge and skills.

Specific maths continuous provision oﬀers a variety of open ended resources that promote a conceptual understanding of number encouraging children to become confident and fluent.
The resources are thoughtfully organised on open shelving so that children can see what and how many are available, access them independently and tidy up time can be optimised as an opportunity to practise and rehearse number skills.
The environment is enhanced with number lines, shapes and mathematical vocabulary to provide children with visual prompts and opportunities to solve problems.

Adults appreciate that maths can be taught everywhere and that the conceptual understanding of number is the basis for all other mathematical learning. They have a sound knowledge and deep understanding of mathematical concepts and vocabulary to enable them to teach the necessary foundation skills which children need to become fluent mathematicians. Within the environment adults capitalise on every opportunity to present mathematical problems for children to think about and solve. They support children in practising and applying their mathematical knowledge and skills by encouraging them to talk about their thinking, provide explanations and give reasons for their answers.

IMPACT:

By the end of my time at Turncroft Nursery School I will know how to…

Recognise and write numbers
Estimate
Identify and talk about number patterns
Add and subtract quantities
Calculate
Talk about shape, space and measure using mathematical language
Sort and match
Give reasons for my answers
Solve problems
Recognise an amount without counting
Compare quantities
Sequence numbers
Recognise an amount in different arrangements

Understanding The World

INTENT STATEMENT: (i) Past and Present

At Turncroft Nursery School we develop a chronological framework to help children understand where they and significant people and events sit in time by:

Capitalising on children’s innate desire to make sense of their own place in history
Exploring the lives of people who are familiar to them comparing similarities and diﬀerences
Cultivating children’s curiosity about people and events within and beyond their living memory
Exploring historical objects to ask questions and draw conclusions

IMPLEMENTATION STATEMENT:

The Past and Present is valued and promoted through direct teaching and purposeful learning opportunities across diﬀerent themes throughout the year.

We use planned themes and capitalise on unplanned moments that present themselves to talk about artefacts and significant events to develop a conceptual understanding of the passing of time. These include birthdays, recent events and experiences.

For each theme we have identified the historical knowledge and skills that we will teach ensuring that knowledge and skills are regularly revisited. We cover the following themes:

Ourselves: through this topic children will understand their own place in history

Festivals: through this topic children will learn about significant people and events in history e.g. Guy Fawkes

Dinosaurs: through this topic children will learn about significant events in a prehistoric age

Transport: through this topic children will learn about how things have changed over time.

Within the provision a timeline is developed as children find out about and plot significant points in their own history and wider historical events. This visually exemplifies the passing of time, the sequencing of events and their own place in history.

Children are encouraged to share artefacts and events from the past. Adults know and understand historical language. They take every opportunity to model historical vocabulary and teach historical skills encouraging children to ask questions, compare similarities and diﬀerences and draw conclusions.

IMPACT STATEMENT:

By the end of my time at Turncroft Nursery School I will know how to…

Sequence events in the right order

Talk about myself in a historical sense e.g. this year I am 4, next year I will be five, last year I was 3

Talk about significant people and event
Use information in books to talk about life in the past
Use comparative language of the past, present and future
Use time vocabulary
Ask questions to find out more
Compare similarities and differences
Draw conclusions about what I have found out
Talk about the roles people have in society

Understanding The World

INTENT STATEMENT: (ii) People, Cultures and Communities

At Turncroft Nursery School we capitalise on children’s fascination and interest in their surroundings and the world in which they live by:

Encouraging an appreciation of the natural world and recognising its similarities and diﬀerences
Fostering a sense of awe and wonder about the world in which they live
Developing an appreciation of other people, their communities and their traditions
Enhancing children’s sense of responsibility for the care of their own environment and the impact it has on the whole world

IMPLEMENTATION STATEMENT:

Learning about People, Places and Communities is valued and promoted through direct teaching, purposeful learning opportunities and first hand experiences.

We use planned themes alongside first hand experiences and capitalise on unplanned moments that present themselves to talk about places, communities and the natural world, to develop an appreciation of the world in which they live. These include where they live and their school, their local community and interesting local places

e.g. parks, river, library.

For each theme we have identified the geographical knowledge and skills that we will teach ensuring that knowledge and skills are regularly revisited. We cover the following themes:

Ourselves: through this topic children will learn about their local community

Festivals: through this topic children will learn about places around the world

Jungle Animals: through this topic children will learn about the features of specific locations

Within the provision we ensure that children have constant access to world and local maps and globes and understand how to use them. We make connections with children’s first hand experiences to exemplify where children live, where they have visited, holidays they have had, wider global events and countries they have found out about.

Children are encouraged to expand their knowledge of the natural world by capitalising on every opportunity to explore and experience the outdoors. Adults know and understand geographical language. They take every opportunity to model geographical vocabulary and teach geographical skills encouraging children to ask questions, noticing and comparing similarities and diﬀerences and expressing opinions.

IMPACT STATEMENT:

By the end of my time at Turncroft Nursery School I will know how to…

Talk about what it is like to live in this country
Talk about what it is like to live in another country
Use a simple map to find out information
Talk about the key features of different places and different countries
Talk about the similarities and differences between people’s religions and cultures
Compare similarities and differences
Talk about where they live and the key features of the local environment
Talk about the key features of the country they live in

Understanding The World

INTENT STATEMENT: (iii) The Natural World

In Early Years we capitalise on children’s thrill of discovery and their instinctive desire to know, understand and find out more by:

Providing freedom to explore, investigate and experiment using the five senses
Cultivating children’s curiosity about how and why things work and how things change
Encouraging questioning, testing out of ideas and drawing conclusions
Fostering children’s excitement and pleasure in the awe and wonder of natural phenomena

IMPLEMENTATION STATEMENT:

The Natural World is valued and promoted through direct teaching and purposeful learning opportunities across diﬀerent themes throughout the year.

We use planned themes and capitalise on unplanned moments that present themselves to talk about living things, materials and changes. These include natural objects, new life and recycling.

For each theme we have identified the scientific knowledge and skills that we will teach ensuring that knowledge and skills are regularly revisited. We cover the following themes:

Ourselves: through this topic children will learn about changes and living things

Weather: through this topic children will learn about changes and materials

Growth: through this topic children will learn about changes and living things

Minibeasts through this topic children will learn about living things and materials

In addition to learning specifically been taught about the natural world, opportunities are also provided for children to practise and apply scientific knowledge and skills through investigation and exploration in all areas of our provision.

Investigation areas, inside and outdoors, are resourced with a range of 'scientific' equipment and materials which oﬀer opportunities for children to observe, investigate, explore and experiment.

Adults know the characteristics of a good scientist. They model technical language and scientific behaviours and attitudes encouraging children to ask questions, test out ideas, carry out investigations and draw conclusions.

IMPACT STATEMENT:

By the end of my time at Turncroft Nursery School I will know how to…

Talk about the properties of materials

Make a sensible prediction

Record findings
Observe, notice and make comparisons
Talk about the characteristics of weather and seasons
Name the parts of plants and animals
Talk about similarities and differences
Draw conclusions
Talk about reversible and irreversible changes
Carry out an investigation

Expressive Arts and Design (i) Creating with Materials

INTENT STATEMENT

In Early Years we capitalise on children’s natural excitement for and freedom to express their thoughts, ideas and inner feelings as artists by:

Providing children with opportunities to explore and experiment with diﬀerent media and materials
Encouraging children to be inventive and imaginative allowing them to express their creativity in ways that are personal to them
Allowing children to use their own imagination to be uninhibited artists
Introducing children to how things work
Providing children with a purpose to design, make and evaluate
Encouraging children to investigate and explore a wide range of materials and tools
Supporting children to find original solutions using resources in unique ways
Nurturing children’s confidence to try new things
Fostering children’s resourcefulness and resilience to enable them to take risks and learn from their mistakes

IMPLEMENTATION STATEMENT:

Being an artist is valued and promoted through direct teaching and purposeful learning opportunities across diﬀerent themes throughout the year.

We use planned themes and capitalise on unplanned moments that present themselves to talk about line, shapes, colour, form and texture.
We look at the work of famous artists as part of our topic work to provide children with opportunities to learn about diﬀerent techniques and styles.
We encourage observational drawing and drawing skills are often modelled by staff. This learning is then reflected within the provision where children have opportunities to practise and refine these skills independently.

For each curriculum theme we have identified the artistic knowledge and skills that we will teach ensuring that knowledge and skills are regularly revisited. We cover the following themes:

All About Me and My Family: through this topic children will learn about lines and shapes through self portraits and different materials

Bonfire Night and Christmas - Exploring colour and colour mixing

Investigation weeks - Joining materials and exploring textures

Garden and Growing - Creating closed shapes and continuous lines

Minibeasts: through this topic children will learn about form through sculpture

Zoo/Farm Animals: through this topic children will learn about colour and texture through collage and painting

Opportunities are also provided for children to express their own creative ideas by exploring, experimenting and combining materials to create diﬀerent eﬀects.

Creative areas, inside and outdoors, are resourced with a wide range of tools, media and materials and are organised in a way that encourages children to be independent in their choices and decisions. We recognise and use the links between being an artist and gross and fine motor development and provide vertical surfaces and large areas where children can stand enabling them to have greater stability and more control over the tools they are using.

In the provision adults promote children’s creativity and imagination by valuing their ideas and encouraging freedom of expression. They support and facilitate children in the application of their artistic knowledge and skills.

Creating things is valued and promoted through direct teaching and purposeful learning opportunities across all planned themes throughout the year.

We use planned themes and capitalise on unplanned moments that present themselves to encourage children to design, make and evaluate.

For each theme we have identified the knowledge and skills that we will teach ensuring that they are regularly revisited.
We provide children with a purpose to design, make and evaluate products that move, are structurally sound and are healthy and safe for example through building, cooking, sewing and making products.
We include opportunities for children to assemble and disassemble objects to learn more about how things work.
Opportunities are also provided for children to practise and apply what they have learnt in diﬀerent contexts and for a variety of purposes.

The environment has two focused areas: the Construction area and Creative Workshop, inside and outdoors, which are resourced with a wide range of equipment and tools. They are organised in a way that encourages children to be independent in their choices and decisions and to use their knowledge to find solutions and use resources in unique and innovative ways.

Both areas include resources to plan their ideas.

In our provision adults promote children’s creativity, originality and problem solving by valuing their ideas and encouraging them to make connections in their learning, take risks and learn from mistakes.

IMPACT STATEMENT:

By the end of my time at Turncroft Nursery School I will know how to…

Mould and sculpt
Express my imagination and creativity

Use different techniques
Express my own ideas
Control and manipulate different tools
Combine different materials to create different textures
Create 2D and 3D representations
Draw myself to include head, body, arms,
Share and talk about my creations
Explain the processes I use
Use props and materials in my role play Talk about famous artists
Make different tones and shades of colours
Solve problems
Control and manipulate different tools
Design and plan
Make a structure strong, stable and balance
Evaluate my work so I can make improvements
Express my imagination
Be creative and innovative
Share and talk about my creations
Talk about and identify what different materials can be used for
Join materials together

Expressive Arts and Design (ii) Being Imaginative and Expressive

INTENT STATEMENT:

In Early Years we capitalise on children’s innate desire to listen to, make and explore sound by:

Providing freedom for children to be curious, experimenting with and creating their own music
Reinforcing children’s responses to sounds and encouraging composition and performance
Cultivating children’s desire to be inventive and imaginative allowing them to express their creativity in ways that are personal to them

In Early Years we capitalise on children’s innate desire to move by:

Providing freedom for children to be expressive, experimenting with and creating their own series of movements
Reinforcing children’s responses to music and encouraging choreography and performance
Cultivating children’s desire to be inventive and imaginative allowing them to express their creativity in ways that are personal to them

Implementation Statement:

Music is valued and promoted through direct teaching and purposeful learning opportunities across our provision.

Different genres are played to provide opportunities for children to listen to, appreciate and explore sounds, instruments, beat and rhythm. The genres covered vary from Pop to Flamenco to African.

Singing is an integral part of the daily routines and children are taught new songs as well as practising songs they already know. Over the year they develop a wide repertoire of songs and rhymes that they know by heart.

A weekly music session is also delivered focusing on musical knowledge and skills.

Our music area is resourced with a wide range of untuned and tuned musical instruments and beaters, familiar songs and rhymes and equipment to play and record music. It is organised in a way that encourages children to be curious about sound and confident in experimenting with ways of combining diﬀerent sounds.

We recognise and use the links between Dance and Music and provide children with a stage where they are encouraged to perform themselves and appreciate others’ performances.

In our provision adults promote children’s creativity and imagination by valuing their ideas and encouraging freedom of expression. They support and facilitate opportunities for children to rehearse, refine and develop their musical skills.

Dance is valued and promoted through direct teaching and purposeful learning opportunities within our provision.

A weekly dance session is delivered focusing on dance knowledge and skills. We recognise the direct link between Dance and Physical Development and use the discreet sessions to practise balance and coordination through core work, building strength, crossing the midline and symmetrical movements.

We use our annual themes and the relationship between Dance and Music as a stimulus to plan opportunities for children to experiment with and create their own dance movements. Children also have access to a stage, instruments, recorded music, costumes and props where they are encouraged to be inventive, imaginative and perform themselves and appreciate others’ performances.

In the provision adults promote children’s creativity and imagination by valuing their ideas and encouraging freedom of expression. They support and facilitate opportunities for children to rehearse, refine and develop their dance skills.

Impact Statement:

By the end of my time at Turncroft Nursery School I will know how to…

Express likes and dislikes about music
Compose and perform
Manipulate and combine sounds
Follow a rhythm
Express my imagination and creativity
Share and talk about my creations
Sing a range of rhymes and songs
Play untuned and tuned instruments
Keep a steady beat
Perform
Express my imagination and creativity
Join and sequence of different moments
Share and talk about my movement
Transfer my weight from one body part to another
Balance
Negotiate space
Move their body in different ways and in different directions
Move in time to music