Total Tots - Caton Road - Lancaster - 01524 591937

Curriculum.

Total Tots follow the Birth to Three Matters framework.

Birth to Three Matters framework
Information for parents

A framework has been developed to provide support, information, guidance and challenge for all those with responsibility for the care and education of babies and children from birth to three years.

The framework takes the child as the focus and is based on the following principles.

• Parents and families are central to the well-being of the child.
• Relationships with other people (both adults and children) are of crucial importance in a child’s life
• A relationship with a key person at home and in the setting is essential to young children’s well being.
• Babies and young children are social beings; they are competent learners from birth.
• Learning is a shared process and children learn most effectively when, with the support of a knowledgeable and trusted adult, they are actively involved and interested.
• Caring adults count more than resources and equipment.
• Schedules and routines must flow with the child’s needs.
• Children learn when they are given appropriate responsibility, allowed to make errors, decisions and choices, and respected as autonomous and competent learners.
• Children learn by doing rather than being told.
• Young children are vulnerable. They learn to be independent by having someone they can depend upon.