Program

At Al Durrah nursery has adopted the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum (EYFS 2012). We embrace every child and focus on his/her unique potential and needs to support them through their learning journey.

Our program uses holistic enquiry and play-based approaches that covers Specific and Prime Areas of development. Along with EYFS curriculum, we have put priority to unlocking a child’s creative potential, learning through a sensory, visual, auditory, and kinesthetic experience through Montessori approach.

Montessori Learning Area is designed to support our children’s growth and encourage independence through child adapted environment and techniques to further allow the children to develop socially, intellectually and emotionally.

Learning through Playing

At Al Durrah nursery we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum (EYFS). We embrace every child and focus on his/her unique potential and needs to support them through their learning journey.

Our program uses holistic enquiry and play-based approaches that cover Specific and Prime Areas of development. Along with EYFS curriculum, we have put priority to unlock a child’s creative potential, learning through a sensory, visual, auditory, and kinesthetic experience.

There are seven areas covered by the early learning goals and educational programs which are split into 3 prime areas and 4 specific areas

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Each Child is Unique

“Every Child has a Different Learning Style and Pace. Each Child is Unique, Not Only Capable of Learning But Also Capable of Succeeding

– Robert John Meehan.”

By treating each child as unique individual we design an environment that positively influencing all areas of children’s development: physical, social /emotional, and cognitive. Language and learning are nurtured in an environment that values and plans appropriate opportunities which can support the needs of each child.

Positive Relationships 

Children learn to be strong and independent from a base of loving and secure relationships. We see parents as partners – Our practitioners work in partnership with parents to ensure that the child’s needs are met and that the child feel safe and secure.

The key person works alongside parents and carers to ensure that there is continuity of care for the child thus supporting the child’s emotional well-being.

Enabling Environments

An enabling environment plays a key role in supporting children’s learning and development. Our nursery environment’s is age-specific, interesting, exciting which allow children to play and explore and to feel secure and safe.

Learning and Development

We use the Early Years Foundation Stage to plan and provide a range of play activities which help children to make progress in each of the areas of learning and development.

The 3 characteristics of effective learning

• Playing and exploring – Engagement
• Active learning – Motivation
• Creating and thinking critically – Thinking

Areas of Learning and Development

Specific Areas

The Montessori Approach

• Montessori Learning Area is designed to support our children’s growth and encourage independence through child adapted environment and techniques to further allow the children to develop socially, intellectually, and emotionally.

  Montessori method enables the child to develop self-confidence, a sense of order and social relationships, creativity, and imagination. It gives children the opportunity to discover the environment at their own individual pace.

  At an early age, the child discovers science in solving problems, mathematics in playing with patterns, the art in creation, social manners in understanding people and sharing things with people.

• Key points in Montessori’s curriculum:
  • Montessori’s ideas are a balanced combination of rationality and practicality.
  • Taking care of children’s freedom of choice and movement, not direct imitation.
  • Through the prepared environment, we have the ability to control what a child learns.
  • The role of the teacher is reflected in the non-interference and in his leadership towards learning.
  • Thanks to educational tools, the child interacts with knowledge through his senses.
  • Maintaining the child’s interest in encouraging him and providing him with information about the basic points so that he can know what to do.

Arabic Language Program

Arabic is a compulsory component of your child’s future within schools across the UAE. As we are preparing our students for school, we have a dedicated Arabic teacher who supports every child’s learning within their classroom settings.

Our program works alongside the nursery curriculum, focusing on the shapes, colors, numbers and letters that are being taught by the teacher. The learning for these areas is done in a fun and engaging manner which includes arts and crafts, Arabic stories and nursery rhymes.