REY Overview
Redscope Early Years (Our 2 year old provision)
Our superb two-year-old provision offers a warm, nurturing, and stimulating environment where children feel safe, secure, and valued. Practitioners form strong, trusting relationships with each child, supporting emotional wellbeing and laying the foundations for lifelong learning. A Key person approach is used within the provision and these relationships are exceptionally strong, enabling children to develop confidence and feel secure. Staff are highly responsive to individual needs, offering sensitive care that supports children’s personal, social, and emotional development.
The indoor and outdoor spaces are calm, well-organised, and engaging. Natural materials and open-ended resources invite sensory exploration and imaginative play. Transitions are carefully managed to support consistency and routine. The environment is language-rich and thoughtfully designed to promote curiosity and exploration. Learning through play is central, with activities tailored to developmental stages. Practitioners skilfully extend learning through high-quality interactions, supporting communication, physical development, and early problem-solving skills.
Over the year we host a number of open evenings and stay and play sessions so that you can come and view our school and provision. Children are able to join our Redscope family the term after they are two. If you would like further details on this then please contact the office to book in.
The adults in Redscope Early Years are:
Miss Shona Aitchison (Early Years Lead Practitioner), Mrs Amy Richardson (Early Years Practitioner), Miss Amy Bradley (Early Years Practitioner), Mrs Jess Pinder (Early Years Practitioner), Mrs Jodie Wyett (Early Years Practitioner)
Autumn 2
We have had a very busy half term with lots of fun packed in!
We started the term by discussing fireworks and bonfire night. We watched some videos of the fireworks and listened to the sounds they made – “BOOM!” “BANG!”. The children developed their mark making skills in glitter creating their own swirling firework shapes with their fingers.
Within this half term there have been lots of celebrations which involved lots of learning! – Remembrance Day, odd socks day, Children in Need and the dentist’s also came to visit. They showed us how to brush our teeth properly and we played a game about healthy and unhealthy foods.
For our Talk for Writing text we have been learning Twinkle Twinkl Little Star. We have been learning the Makaton for this song and linking some of our activities to this. We made start biscuits from scratch, following the recipe. We used our counting and measuring skills to be able to pour in the ingredients. The children have been enjoying using scissors so we cut out some stars too.
During small group times at the start of the session, the children have been continuing to work on their listening and attention skills. Dough disco has been a favourite, from Halloween songs to Twinkle Twinkle.
On the run up to Christmas we have been very busy! Our trip to Gulliver’s was a great way to kick start our Christmas fun! We all had a wonderful time in the soft play and meeting Santa in his house. It was so lovely to see children and their parents have a lovely time together out of Redscope Early Years.
We have made our own Christmas cards by painting and printing to give to our families. Instead of playdough we have been making salt dough and all children have helped to make some salt dough decorations. For the Christmas Fair we made snow globes from recycled jars.
For our sing along celebration, the children learned some new songs and have been great at practicing these. The children enjoyed their singalong and all did great at joining in. The children have really enjoyed using the bells and other instruments while practicing on the run up to our sing-along and right up until the last day. At times, we have been singing that loud outside Santa may have heard us from the North Pole!
We hope everyone had a great Christmas break and are looking forward to being back at Early Years. We are looking forward to welcoming some new friends to REY in January!
Autumn 1
We have had a great first term back settling into REY again after the summer.
We have welcomed our new friends and they have all settled great. They are now learning lots of our routines, where resources go and are able to confidently follow rules and routines. During group times, we have spent time learning our friend’s names, finding out about each other, what we like and dislike, helping us to build friendships.
Phil was busy over the summer working on our garden are. The children has responded really well to this and love the sectioned areas. Children are able to choose it use it put it away outside as well as inside. The trim trail on the grass has been great to develop their physical skills. Our new sand pit has been a great addition and he children enjoy taking off their socks and shoes to feel the sand in their toes. This has also been encouraging the children to learn how to out on their socks and shoes independently.
Pumpkins in garden When we returned in September, we had some pumpkins growing in our flower bed. We used these in our play, were able to use our senses to explore these. The children loved scooping out the seeds and counting these.
For our sponsored walk, we walked around the playground and had instruments and music. The children were able to copy the positions that are painted on the ground. We are hopeful we have raised enough money to be able to go to Tinsel Tots in December.
One of our spine books is Goldilocks and 3 bears. This has prompted lots of talk about where we sleep and what we eat. The children have been role playing parts of the story during their own independent free flow play. We used the compare bears to sort and match into different sizes and colours. Using clay, the children made different sizes of bowls. Some small like baby bears, medium like Mummy bear & large like Daddy bears.
As part of our home learning, children took home a brown bag to find Autumn treasure in. Lots of the children took part in this and we were able to use the items in sessions. We used conkers for painting and counting and explored leaves and sticks in tray inside and out shapes sizes colours
During our small group sessions, we have seen great progress in the children’s listening skills. Through games & paying attention to what we can hear outside, children have been more aware of their surroundings and can tune into what they can hear. Mouth sound games has enabled children with their pronunciation of some sounds which we will continue to work on next term.
Towards the end of the term we have been busy making our Bluey scarecrow for the pumpkin patch. The children loved doing paper mâché and spent time each session joining in with this. As the children enjoyed this so much, we have been exploring with the glue and paper for some Halloween experiences. We continues exploring texture by introducing gloop.
We are all really proud of our children this term as they have been really busy and engaged in their learning. It has been lovely to see new friendships form and how independent the children are becoming so early on in the year.
We are looking forward to another busy half term and adding in some Christmas fun!
