- How do you know if you have a good children’s centre?
- Why do pre-school children need a good, stimulating environment?
- Planning to have a good children’s centre
- Toys and play areas you need in a children’s centre
- Collecting and storing waste for art and play activities
- Helping children to behave well
- Planning and preparing play activities
- The daily programme
- Beginning the morning
- The early morning routine
- The "whats", "whys" and "hows" of art activities
- Tidy-up times
- Music in a children’s centre
- Toilet routines
- Meal times
- Outdoor free play
- Indoor free play
- Story time and the library
- Saying goodbye for the day
- Pre-skills
- Making charts and posters
- Registering children and children’s files
- The daily register
- A list of your basic furniture, art, waste and administrative needs for your children’s centre and play areas.
- Teaching skills taught in the first year
- Skills, concepts and knowledge the theme programme teaches to children
Theme programme
A week-by-week guide to activities in your school.
Term 1:
- Toys
- Me
- Caring for myself
- My body
- My pets
- The beach and fish
- Summer
- Colour 1
- Colour 2
- Chickens
- Easter
Term 2:
- Trees and autumn
- My culture (week 1)
- My culture (week 2)
- Eyes and seeing
- Ears and hearing
- Smelling and tasting
- Touch and feeling
- Round shapes
- Shapes
- Transport
Term 3:
- Winter and fire
- I’m sick
- Earth
- Things that fly
- Space
- Rain and water
- Mammals
- Reptiles
- Frogs and toads
- Spring
Term 4:
- Insects 1
- Insects 2
- Spiders and scorpions
- Slugs and snails
- Birds
- The farm
- Cows and Milk
- Babies
- Christmas 1
- Christmas 2
In addition...
The teachers attend an induction course, observe at a good pre-school and must attend 4 workshops in their first year which help them to implement each term's programme.