Our curriculum is designed to acknowledge each child's prior learning, whether from previous settings or their experiences at home. We understand that every child begins at a different point, and we strive to create a nurturing environment for all. This is achieved through offering a variety of child-led, hands-on learning opportunities. We believe that the foundation of learning is built on teaching essential skills, knowledge, concepts, and values. To support this, we provide numerous first-hand experiences to deepen the children's understanding of the world around them.

We are committed to ensuring that children's first school experiences are joyful and positive, laying the foundation for a lifelong love of learning. To create this environment, we use positive language that fosters a healthy sense of self-esteem. We aim to build trust, resilience, ambition, and integrity, enabling children to believe in themselves and their peers. Each child is recognised as a unique individual. We work to ensure that children and their families feel valued, respected, and empowered to make choices that positively impact their lives.

Our nurturing approach promotes positive attitudes toward learning and behaviour, helping children to respect and appreciate their full potential. Community involvement and parental engagement are key elements of our curriculum. Children leave our setting with a strong sense of belonging to a close-knit community, equipped with the confidence and skills to make decisions, self-evaluate, form connections, and continue their journey as lifelong learners.

At Wembury, the Prime Areas of Learning are at the heart of everything we do. Mastery of these areas is essential for children to advance in their learning and development. Our resources and provision are carefully planned to encourage children to practice foundational knowledge and important skills such as taking turns, engaging in conversations, and developing both fine and gross motor skills.

We foster the development of emotional regulation and positive behaviour by applying our knowledge of brain development and research on young children’s growth. At Wembury, we build expertise in Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World, and Expressive Arts and Design through our planned themes. We share a range of healthy snacks every day and we learn about the importance of a healthy balanced diet. We discuss the impact this can have on our bodies.

Language and vocabulary development are central to our curriculum, and we support this through high-quality interactions, modelling, sentence stems, and storytelling. We embed essential oracy skills such as taking turns in conversation and maintaining eye contact with the speaker, laying the foundation for effective communication.