Jeavons Wood strives to be a place where everyone can experience a whole range of successes and where children are enabled to become confident individuals who are independent and creative in their thinking. The school follows the Early Excellence approach to create a highly effective continuous provision throughout the school. In order to maximise their provision, the school is redeveloping the Foundation classrooms to be an ‘enabling environment’ with clearly defined areas that are resourced and organised to ensure full engagement and independent access by the children.

Child development studies show us that children learn to use language, think symbolically, and represent their ideas using pictures and objects: they are highly active and learn through pretend play and first-hand experiences. The redevelopment of the Foundation classrooms will enable us to provide these valuable learning opportunities.

The project will include two main areas:

• Purchasing furniture in natural, calming materials to enable appropriately defined key learning areas, such as ‘writing’, ‘construction play’, ‘role play’, ‘maths and investigation’, ‘small world play’, ‘books’, ‘art’, ‘music and performance’ etc.
• Identifying and updating resources for each defined area for carpet, table and messy play.

The PTA is delighted to support this project and will be undertaking further fundraising activities throughout the year.