Tiny Sparkles Introduction

Tiny Sparkles classes follow the Early Years curriculum from the UK.  The classes currently consist o f 2 classes, foundation stage 1 (3–4-year-olds) and foundation stage 2 (5–6-year-olds). In each class there is a class teacher and a high level of adult support to help the children with their learning and individual education targets.

In Tiny Sparkles, teachers plan over a half term linked to the theme, for example “People Who Help Us” and “Out of Space”. Teachers provide half termly curriculum maps and newsletters outlining the learning and ideas for home-learning to parents.

The children in Tiny Sparkles enjoy a broad and balanced curriculum covering the following areas:  

Physical Development

Creative Arts

Communication, Language and Literacy (including Phonics).

Maths

Personal, social and emotional

Understanding the World Around Us.

The children’s main form of learning is through play however teachers plan specific input for Maths using White Rose and Literacy using Little Wandle. This is incorporated into Continuous Provision, whereby the children can practice and consolidate taught skills throughout the school day.

Continuous provision describes all the different provision areas which are available for the children to use every day within the classroom environment. Within each of these areas of provision there should be a core range of resources that children can use all the time, throughout the whole year.

Carefully planned continuous provision will enable children to learn skills, will challenge their thinking and help them to embed concepts.

It also provides the context for a variety of learning conversations between children and adults with rich opportunities for modelling and extending speech and vocabulary. It is within this learning environment that the children will also develop key learning attributes.

How your environment is planned, resourced, valued and used can impact positively, or negatively, on children’s engagement, independence, collaboration, self-confidence, resilience and curiosity.

Classroom Areas set up as part of continuous provision:

• Reading area
• Writing/Mark making area.
• Phonics area.
• Fine motor area
• Maths area
• Creative area
• Role Play
• Small World
• Water/Sand area
• Malleable area (sensory)
• Technology (ipad/IW)
• Construction Area
• Arabic/Islamic