Fuelling young minds to reach for the stars in a galaxy filled with potential
Inspirational Early Years Education
Created with oodles of early years education experience, our dynamic educational curriculum is unique to Seymour House and incorporates everything that’s important in early childhood education.
Introducing our curriculum – The 5Cs
The 5Cs are the skills children learn before going to school. Skills that shape their approach to challenges, personal goals and their understanding of the world. Skills all children need for a bright future. The 5Cs are delivered through a rich array of early education teaching methods and resources, lovingly tailored to your child’s interests, abilities and learning styles, we bring the 5Cs to life in the most amazing ways, fostering a love of learning, nourishing body and mind.
Communication
Our goal is for the children in our care to be able to express their thoughts and opinions clearly, using a wide vocabulary. They will understand how to engage in conversation, demonstrating good language comprehension. Our early years education approach instils children with a love of literature and helps them begin to develop written methods with correct letter formation and awareness of letter sound correspondence.
How do we do it?
- Fabulous songs and rhymes
- Snuggling down for stories
- Creative chatter baskets
- Snack and chat
- Remember when
- Meeting Tizzy at Early Talk Boost
- Poetry baskets
- Magic wand sky writing
Co-operation
Children at Seymour House nurseries are encouraged to be independent and have a positive sense of self, whilst also working well together, incorporating each other’s views and ideas to safely and respectfully achieve a shared goal. Children have fun, thinking and learning together, demonstrating good foundations for living in a social world.
How do we do it?
- Paired buddy times
- Being kindness catchers
- Childhood games
- Special helpers
- Safety detectives
- Play spaces for me and you
- Breath, believe, relax sessions
Curiosity
Children are inquisitive researchers who move their bodies to explore and investigate, developing their own theories about the world and how it works. Our early years curriculum encourages them to show awareness of themselves, the significant people in their lives, the community around them and the wider and natural world as they begin to understand ways to care for the environment.
How do we do it?
- Funky dough disco
- Gardening fun
- Around the world programme
- iCAN learning
- Meet the expert and travelling museums
- Curiosity cubes
- Awe and Wonder programme
Creativity
Creativity is about children discovering and expressing their artistic and cultural awareness, creating freely with a wide range of media and art and craft materials. Our early education programme allows them to demonstrate their own personal character and talents through being imaginative and self-expressive in their play.
How do we do it?
- Music
- Dance
- Painting
- Talent shows
- Dressing up
- Imaginative play
- Storytelling
- Magic carpet rides
Critical thinking
Through the early years education at our nurseries, children develop an awareness of early science and engineering concepts and become confident thinkers who make sense of their experiences through perceiving patterns and early STEM concepts. Children gain a good understanding of the numbers 0-10, basic shapes and measurements. They also, display digital literacy and an understanding of basic online safety.
How do we do it?
- Dragon maths
- Little scientists
- Choose a challenge
- Open ended block play
- Puzzles for critical thinking
- Imaginative build it bases
Our Go Green curriculum
We feel strongly about being kind to the planet, so much so that we’ve created a bespoke Go Green Programme to teach the children at our nurseries all about our environment and how we can help to look after our beautiful planet. Our programme uses child friendly methods to raise awareness of sustainability from songs to stories, environmental invitations to play plus a host of fun games.
Introducing early concepts in 5 key areas
- Reduce
- Reuse
- Recycle
- Respecting animals
- Respecting plants
Becoming planet protectors at nursery
- Recycle daily
- Switch off lights
- Building bug hotels and growing foods
- Saving sea creatures as part of water play
- Creating earth friendly art with leaves and petals
Empowering little ones to live green
- Builds a wonderful appreciation for the world around us
- Creates a brighter world for all by forming green habits that last a lifetime
Enriching environments
We know that children thrive most when they feel settled and secure, with a positive sense of belonging. The bespoke early years environments at Seymour House nurseries have been designed to offer a calm yet stimulating space for children to learn, grow and play. Within our indoor and outdoor classrooms children become confident, powerful learners who can explore and experiment using the very best early years resources available.
Enhancing wellbeing with Hygge
Seymour House has adopted the ‘Hygge’ approach to enhancing children’s wellbeing and development throughout all our nurseries. The Hygge (pronounced hue-gah) approach is a Danish concept and is essentially a feeling which encompasses warmth, comfort and contentment.
The Hygge ethos of living embraces life’s simple pleasures and living in the moment. It consists of ten core elements which are achieved through careful changes to the environment and our team’s approach to learning.
Focusing on children’s wellbeing is fundamental for their development and continuing progress, that’s why wellbeing is at the core of our 5 Cs curriculum. Nurturing wellbeing also has a positive effect on behaviours, attitudes, and overall engagement in play.
The ten core elements of Hygge
1. Atmosphere
Creating a warm, calm and homely atmosphere
2. Presence
Focus on what they are doing and feeling right here, right now
3. Pleasure
Activities that are fun and promote happiness and wellbeing
4. Equality
Sharing and respect for others
5. Togetherness
Spending quality time together and forming strong friendships
6. Gratitude
Time to reflect and discuss what they’re grateful for
7. Harmony
Less focus on competitiveness and more on enjoying playing together
8. Truce
Learning to play fairly and manage conflict
9. Comfort
A comfortable, cosy environment
10. Shelter
Space to relax or read alone
