Weekids

Curriculum

Wee Kids Preschool offers a cognitive and constructive Innovative Play-Way Methodologies curriculum. Our curriculum sets standards for the learning, development, and care of children from 18 months to 6-years-old.

Wee Kids Preschool provides each child the best possible start in life with an enabling environment that nurtures individualized learning, development and care. We offer a cognitive, constructivist curriculum which emphasis on activity-based child-centered learning experiences.

Wee Kids Preschool curriculum covers the care and education of all children in the early years. Wee Kids Preschool Program is unique because it makes use of a multi-age curriculum to guide the child throughout the preschool years. It amalgamates the best of principles of Maria Montessori and Rudolph Steiner, both leading educationists of their times. This blended curriculum of Wee Kids Preschool makes it potent and relevant to the early childhood education system.

Communication and Language Development (CL)

Giving children opportunities to speak and listen while allowing them to develop confidence and skills in expressing themselves.

Physical Development (PD)

Providing opportunities for children to be active and to develop their coordination, control, and movement.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED)

Helping children to develop a positive sense of themselves, and others; to form positive relationships and develop respect for others; to develop social skills and learn how to manage their feelings; to understand appropriate behavior in groups; and to have confidence in their own abilities.

Literacy Development (LD)

Encouraging children to read and write, both through listening to others reading and beginning to read and write themselves.

Mathematics (M)

Providing children with opportunities to practice and improve their skills in counting, calculating simple additions and subtractions, and to describe shapes, spaces, and measures.

Understanding the World (UTW)

Guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community through opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology and the environment.

Expressive Arts and Design (EAD)

Involves supporting children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials, as well as providing opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play, and design and technology.

Learning at Wee Kids

Wee Kids Preschool curriculum covers the care and education of all children in the early years. Wee Kids Preschool Program is unique because it makes use of a multi-age curriculum to guide the child throughout the preschool years. It amalgamates the best of principles of Maria Montessori and Rudolph Steiner, both leading educationists of their times. This blended curriculum of Wee Kids Preschool makes it potent and relevant to the education system.

Play way methodology supports an integrated approach to early learning and care. It gives all professionals a set of common principles and commitments to deliver quality early education and childcare experiences to all children. The Four Key Themes and Principles of the Early years Foundation Stage are

A Unique child

Every child is a unique child who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.
Positive Relationships

Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships
Enabling environments

Children learn and develop well in enabling environments, where their experiences respond to their individual needs and where there is a strong partnership between practitioners and parents / careers.
Learning and Development

Children learn and develop in different ways. The framework covers the education and care of all children in early years provisions, including children with special educational needs and disabilities. Practitioners teach children by ensuring challenging, playful opportunities across the prime and specific areas of learning and development.

What does Play-Way Curriculum mean for me as a Parent?

Wee Kids Preschool Curriculum seeks to provide ‘partnership’ working between practitioners and parents. It states that practitioners should build ‘relationships’ with parents, keep them up-to-date with their child’s progress, respond to observations that they share, involve them in assessments and support them to guide their child’s development at home.

Parents have the right to play a central role in making decisions about their child’s education and care and their partnerships are key to a successful early years’ experience for children and for them to gain the most out of their early education and reach expected levels of development. Over 70% of children’s lives are spent, not in a setting, but with their family and the wider community. Therefore, home and community must be recognized as significant learning environments in the lives of children.

Quality and consistency in all our centers so that every child makes good progress and no child gets left behind.
A secure foundation through learning and development opportunities which are planned around the needs and interests of each individual child and are assessed and reviewed regularly. Child-directed, Autonomous and Paced (CAP) Learning.
Partnership working between the franchisees and with parents.
Equality of opportunity and anti - discriminatory practice, ensuring that every child is included and supported.

Children learn through play
Practitioners work closely with you, the parents
You are kept up to date on your child's progress
The welfare, learning and all-round development of children with different backgrounds and levels of ability, including those with special educational needs and disabilities.

The years from 18 months to six-years-old are regarded as incredibly important because this is the time of greatest growth and learning for our children. It is called the Foundation Stage because it aims to give a secure foundation to build all further learning upon.

The EYFS identifies seven areas of learning and development. These are divided into

Three Prime Areas:

Communication and language
Physical development
Personal, social and emotional development

Four Specific Areas:

Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the world
Expressive arts and design

While all seven areas are equally important, for children under three-years-old, the three prime areas are focused on. This gives them the basis to develop in the four specific areas in pre-school and reception.

Having an official document does not mean that your child will be undertaking formal learning from a young age. Learning is structured around the ‘characteristics of learning’. This means that children learn by playing and exploring, being active and through creative and critical thinking, which takes place both indoors and outside.

It's important that your child feels safe and secure in their surroundings and this will be aided by an allocated ‘key person’ who will build a strong relationship with both your child and you. The EYFS is designed to be really flexible and your child's key person will ensure that their learning and care is tailored to them.

Your child's key person will carefully monitor their progress and share this with you. Along with the ongoing reviews there are two key assessments - the early years review when they are two-years-old and the EYFS Profile at the end of the school year when they turn five-years-old. The EYFS also sets out welfare standards that all early year’s settings must follow, such as the ratios of staff working with children and carrying out risk assessments or administering medicine. Your child's setting will be inspected according to the EYFS Framework and given a rating.