Our Educational Programme The Early Years Foundation Stage is the basis of the curriculum at The Bees Knees Day  Nursery and Pre-School. It ensures children will be ready to begin learning all the subjects in the National Curriculum in later years. Our educational objectives are that children will be able to: Personal, Social and Emotional Development - Have confidence and self-respect. - Behave appropriately and be aware of right and wrong - Be willing to take turns and share fairly. - Have good relationships with and sensitivity towards others including children of other cultures and beliefs. - Respond with wonder, joy or sorrow to cultural and religious events or other experiences of the world. - Work well both independently and as a group. - Concentrate and persevere. - Take initiative. - Have some personal independence - in dressing and hygiene, for example. Communication, Language and Literacy - Listen attentively to stories, songs, rhymes and talk about his/her own experiences. - Use an increasing number of words to express thoughts and find out things. - Be able to make up stories and take part in role play. - Use and enjoy books, knowing that pictures and words have a meaning, that pages turn and that words are read from left to right. - Recognise his/her own name, some familiar words and alphabet letters. - Associate sounds with words, letters and syllables and patterns in rhymes. - Write his/her own name and write for different purposes using pictures or symbols, small and capital letters. Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy - Know the mathematical words to describe shape, position, size or quantity such as circle, cube, behind, bigger than. - Recognise and make mathematical patterns. - Sort, compare and put objects in order. - Know some number rhymes, songs, stories and counting games. - Count, read and write numbers to 10. - Use real objects to solve problems, such as adding one, taking away one and working out how many are left. Knowledge and Understanding of the World - Talk about his or her family, past and present events, where s/he lives, his or her environment and some of its features, such as parks, shops, schools, railway stations and libraries. - Talk about living, natural and made objects, patterns and change. - Talk about and record, in writing, symbols or pictures his/her own observations. - Ask questions about why things happen and how things work. - Choose and use equipment to cut, fold or bend. - Use technology, such as computers, telephones and TV sets. Physical Development -  Move confidently and imaginatively with control, co-ordination and awareness of space. - Be able to use a wide range of small equipment such as bats, balls, hoops and climbing and balancing equipment. - To be able to use tools, objects, hard and soft construction materials, safely and with control. Creative Development -  Explore sound, colour, texture, shape, space in both his/her two and three dimensional work. - Respond in various ways to what s/he hears, smells, touches and feels. - Use imagination and observation in art. - Express ideas and communicate feelings through a range of materials, including suitable tools and musical instruments.