In the early years at Wilby, we want our children to be happy, confident, well-rounded individuals with a love for learning. The adults within early years are role models for learning and provide high quality interactions to move learning forward by supporting and extending the children.

Our children have the opportunity to learn through play with the use of high quality, open-ended resources. Learning should be fun, engaging and suitably challenging for all our children. At Wilby, we value the importance of safe and stimulating indoor and outdoor environments and believe that they offer children the opportunity to develop their thinking and problem solving skills alongside their learning in each of the seven areas: Communication and Language; Physical Development; Personal, Social and Emotional Development; Literacy; Mathematics; Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design.

We have chosen the themes of All About Me, Toys, Heroes, Journeys, Animals and Changes to focus on during the year, although we have the flexibility to build on each individual’s wants, needs and interests within our early year’s curriculum.

At Wilby we are committed to providing the best possible start to the children’s school life, teaching them skills and giving them experiences which will ensure their well-being now and success in the future.