The Leapfrog Curriculum
Our Vision
We have a child-centered approach with key working and parents at the heart of everything we do. We provide a welcoming, nurturing and creative environment for children to become independent learners. We strive to prepare them for the next stage of learning.
We advocate ‘in the moment’ planning, following children’s interests, strengthening and broadening children’s ideas through quality interactions and using natural resources. We encourage and role model quality language, sharing stories, risk taking, exploration and caring for each individual child. Being an Inclusive setting and supporting children and their families is key.
Our continuous provision reflects our children’s interests and invites and enables them to learn through their experiences. Personal development and confidence are continuously fostered and expectations of behaviour are consistent and embedded.
Our inspirational team, innovates, supports, coaches and monitors to ensure our vision and ethos grows stronger each day.
Our Approach
How do Children learn at Leapfrog?
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Our goal is to ensure all children make progress. We strive to build on what they already know and prepare them for the next stage of education. We’ve developed a bespoke curriculum that focuses on children’s interests and narrows any gaps. We aim to lay the foundations of having positive attitudes towards learning and give children the skills and motivation to be life-long learners ready for the modern world.
1. Experienced educators
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​Our best resource is our experienced and dedicated staff, a balance of teaching approaches including child-led play and direct teaching, clear intentions for building on what children know and their starting points, personalising next steps and planning experiences not just activities.
2. Inspiring Environments
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Bespoke, handpicked resources inspired with current cohorts in mind, open ended set ups inviting children to play, planning based on children’s interests, covering all 7 areas of learning to motivate and inspire children to understand new concepts.
3. Wonderful world
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Planning with the seasons, exploring the natural environment at our local woodland space, reading in the woods, local walks and park visits, looking after our planet, finding out about other countries, cultural experiences and celebrations
4. Self-expression
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Listening to voices and having choices, sharing stories, songs and rhymes, signing and language, music and art, design and wood work.
5. Mind and Body Wellness
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​Physical fitness, yoga and stretching, gross motor skills and healthy eating, cooking and trying new things, learning to regulate and foster relationships, understand feelings and describe emotions.
6. Awe and Wonder
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Curiosity cube, object learning, broaden horizons with topics and themes, sharing experiences, experiments and visitors