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  our philosophy
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Learning through play At Chase Lane Nursery we very much support and fully embrace the importance of learning through play. We understand the value of well-planned play which offers our children the experiences and opportunities to enable them to journey towards their own personal goals. We observe, support and extend children’s thinking by providing a rich, stimulating, multi-sensory and progressive environment and by challenging their play and nurturing their knowledge. We know that children are organically, pre-dispositioned with the ability to play. We therefore start from the child – we begin from where the child is at, and structure play situations to gently encourage growth onto a higher level of play and understanding and therefore empower your children with knowledge that will last a lifetime.
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A learning journey We intend that your children leave us having experienced warmth, encouragement, opportunities, rich relationships and take with them a feeling of self-worth, confidence and fascination to in turn continue their learning journey. We believe in the powerful effect of ‘indirect teaching’. We provide a well resourced, stimulating environment which we leave open to imaginative response as much as possible. We ‘join in’ with our children’s free-flow play we do not ‘take over’ which helps our children become abstract thinkers and autonomous learners who can get on with their learning journey without needing to be told what to do. Your children are therefore in control of their destinies and we have high expectations for every single one of them.
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How we plan the curriculum
We plan as a team, we start by evaluating the previous week and discuss the children’s interests and motivations. We then use this information to plan the following week. We plan within very broad topics which are as follows:-
 You and Me
 Food
 Clothes
 Animals
 Toys
 Stories.
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