Welcome to Cygnets Preschool
Ofsted registered early years education for children from 2-4 years of age.
Offering preschool places and wraparound care in partnership with Langford Village School Nursery
Grow, explore and discover drive our creative curriculum and underpin all that we do throughout our preschool.
Cygnets Preschool is committed to providing outstanding quality childcare that supports individual needs, promotes self-esteem, curiosity, cultural diversity and equality of opportunity, while promoting individual growth to its highest potential.
Preschool Life
We believe that learning should be fun in order for a child’s understanding to be successful. Our children are provided with a safe, secure and stimulating environment where we offer the best possible care. Our children are given the opportunity to learn through self-initiated and some adult directed activities in small/large groups and they then learn through experimentation, enquiry and exploration by actively discovering concepts at their own pace.
Learning
Our themes/topics, coupled with children’s interests, support our children’s intellectual, social, emotional and physical growth and encourage the continued growth and education of families and staff.
Assessment
The most important role assessment has, is to improve the child’s learning and overall experience. So much of our assessing is minute-by-minute. It’s scaffolding children’s learning. For our older children, it’s about giving kind but precise feedback that helps them to reflect on and develop their learning.
Lots of ‘data’ about children won’t actually help us to ensure that any individual child makes great progress, or overcomes difficulties when they are struggling, is a close and detailed look at what their difficulty is and how we can help them overcome it. We want our assessment information to celebrate every child’s progress - whether that’s small steps or huge strides. We also want it to pinpoint children’s needs, so we can help them quickly.
We have found that working on ‘evidence’ and ‘tracking’ can take us away from the place where we make the most difference. That’s with the children: listening to them, developing conversations, playing with them, and teaching them new skills and concepts. Where some children struggle with their learning at certain times we would focus our assessment work on those children, working out what their strengths are, so we can build on them and what their needs are, so we can help them.
“If you believe you can do it, you can and you will”
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
bicester.cygnets@gmail.com
Phone
07875 238736