At Appletree Corner Daycare & Pre-school, we have a good understanding of children's lives and their social contexts, basing our teaching around them. Supporting and encouraging personal development, autonomy and creativity are top priorities for us. Developing social interaction and understanding differences in others also plays an important role in our work. We also support you, the parent, in bringing up your child.

Kindness

• Helping others, using our manners, using our gentle hands, turn taking and sharing

Independence

• Dressing and Undressing, cleaning up after ourselves, descion making and initiating play

Nurturing a love of learning

• Developing more complex imaginative play, through stories and small world activities

Discovery

• Understand and respect the natural world around us and ask questions

Engagement

• Engage in activities designed to develop phonological awareness and a love of books, songs and rhymes

Routine

• Routines are recognised and begining to include a variety of mathematical language