2024-2025:
Nursery Priority 1: All children’s communication and language learning will progress through literacy rich experiences, interactions and spaces.
Outcomes
All children will see themselves as readers and writers through purposeful play experiences. Literacy experiences will build on and grow children’s interests, vocabulary and knowledge.
Practitioners will use a robust knowledge of children’s progress and to identify and support their next steps in literacy learning.
High-quality interactions will demonstrate consistent universal ‘Communication High Five’ strategies across all play spaces.
Children with low eLIPS scores will experience appropriate intervention and support through high-quality planning, monitoring and evaluation.
Practitioners will increase their understanding and skills in ensuring the interactions, experiences and spaces offer exciting possibilities for children to deepen their knowledge and build literacy and communication skills.
Families will have a shared understanding of how to support their child’s language and literacy development and be better supported to identify their child’s next steps.
Nursery Priority 2: All children’s learning and development will be supported through improved parental and community engagement.
A strengthened culture of empowerment will support families to exercise initiative and contribute to the life and work of the nursery.
Strong partnership between home and nursery will develop positive relationships and improve all children’s learning and development.
Children will talk about their learning at home and nursery with increasing confidence, using displays and PLJs.
A clear program of universal family learning opportunities throughout the year will enable parents/carers to meaningfully engage in their children’s learning at home and within nursery.
Where appropriate, more targeted support is offered in a homely space to families that enables them to meet their individual needs and foster confidence and self-esteem.
Staff and families work closely together to identify next steps in children’s learning.
Strong partnership working will build confidence and skill of families to develop positive life skills and dispositions towards learning.