Inclusive Curriculum
| Inclusive practice is a teaching approach that recognises children’s diversity and uses this to ensure all children receive equal treatment, opportunities, and respect. Adopting inclusive practices is vital for ensuring that all children, despite their background or who they are, have an equal opportunity to succeed. Inclusion and inclusive practice in the early years is about practices which ensure that everyone “belongs”: the children and their parents and/or carers, staff and any other people connected with the early years setting in some way. Every child is unique and will develop at their own pace, so it is not about treating all children in exactly the same way but treating each child fairly and paying attention to their individual backgrounds, interests and needs. Equal Opportunities Policy We are committed to provide equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice, ensuring every child is included and supported. Our ethos is to ensure positive attitudes to diversity and difference, so that every child is included and not disadvantaged because of ethnicity, culture or religion, home language, family background, special educational needs, disability, gender or ability. We meet the individual needs of all children by: · Valuing each child for whom they are and recognising differences; so they feel understood whatever their ability, ethnic background or gender. · Valuing each child’s culture by making connections between experiences at home, my setting and the wider community. · Talking to parents and/or carers about their child’s progress and development, planning appropriate support where identified. · Delivering personalised learning and care to help children get the best possible start in life. We monitor the effectiveness of our inclusive practice by: · Listening to and valuing all children in my setting, ensuring they have a voice. · Observing children in my setting and assessing whether the learning environment encourages inclusive practice. · Ensuring my knowledge about different cultural groups is kept up-to- date. · Actively avoiding gender stereotyping and challenging any expression of prejudice or discrimination by children or adults. We promote and value diversity and difference by: · Being positive about differences between people and support children’s acceptance of difference. · Celebrating and valuing cultural, religious and community events and experiences. · Providing resources which represent children’s diverse backgrounds and avoid negative stereotypes. · Providing positive images of all children, including disabilities. · Supporting children’s understanding of difference and empathy encouraging positive attitudes and challenge negative attitudes with the use of props such as puppets and dolls to tell stories about diverse experiences, ensuring that negative stereotyping is avoided. · Encouraging children to talk about their own home/ community life · Strengthening the positive impressions children have of their own cultures and faiths, and those in their community, by sharing and celebrating a range of practices and special events. · Visiting different parts of the local community. · Providing role-play areas with a variety of resources reflecting diversity. · Sharing stories that reflect the diversity of children’s experiences · Ensuring that children learning English as an additional language have opportunities to express themselves in their home language some of the time. · Taking reasonable steps to provide opportunities for children to develop and use their home language in play and learning, supporting their language development at home. I must also ensure that children have sufficient opportunities to learn and reach a good standard in English language. In our setting, we celebrate over 150 festivals, events, and special days from all around the world! We ask the children what they want to learn and we ask the parents what they celebrate at home. And here it is, our inspirational learning adventure for 2023 full of opportunities, curiosity, and excitement! Festivals and Celebrations around the world in 2023 January 4th Jan 2023 World Braille Day 18th Jan 2023 Winnie the Pooh Day 21st Jan 2023 Red Squirrel Appreciation Day 22nd Jan 2023 Chinese New Year 24th Jan 2023 International Day of Education 28th Jan 2023 International LEGO Day 31st Jan 2023 International Zebra Day February 2nd Feb 2023 World Play Your Ukulele Day 7th Feb 2023 Safer Internet Day 12th Feb 2023 Darwin Day 13th Feb 2023 World Radio Day 14th Feb 2023 St. Valentine’s Day 17th Feb 2023 Random Acts of Kindness Day 21st Feb 2023 Pancake Day 27th Feb 2023 International Polar Bear Day March 1st Mar 2023 St. David’s Day 1st Mar 2023 Baba Marta Day (Bulgaria) 2nd Mar 2023 World Book Day 3rd Mar 2023 World Wildlife Day 17th Mar 2023 Red Nose Day 17th Mar 2023 St. Patrick’s Day 18th Mar 2023 Global Recycling Day 19th Mar 2023 Mother’s Day (UK) 20th Mar 2023 World Frog Day 21st Mar 2023 Early Music Day 22nd Mar 2023 World Water Day 29th Mar 2023 Piano Day 31st Mar 2023 Wear A Hat Day April 1st Apr 2023 April Fool’s Day 2nd Apr 2023 World Autism Awareness Day 7th Apr 2023 Good Friday 9th Apr 2023 Unicorn Day 10th Apr 2023 Easter Monday 18th Apr 2023 World Heritage Day 22nd Apr 2023 Earth Day 23rd Apr 2023 St. George’s Day 25th Apr 2023 Penguin Day 29th Apr 2023 International Dance Day 30th Apr 2023 International Jazz Day May 3rd May 2023 World Laughter Day 6th May to 13th May 2023 National Sun Awareness Week 6th May 2023 Coronation of King Charles III 12th May 2023 International Nurses Day 14th May 2023 National Children’s Day UK 18th May 2023 International Museum Day 20th May 2023 World Bee Day 23rd May 2023 World Turtle Day 25th May 2023 Africa Day 29th May 2023 National Biscuit Day June 1st Jun 2023 World Milk Day 1st Jun 2023 Global Day of Parents 3rd Jun 2023 World Bicycle Day 5th Jun 2023 Sausage Roll Day 5th Jun 2023 World Environment Day 8th Jun 2023 World Ocean Day 17th Jun 2023 The King’s Official Birthday 18th Jun 2023 Father’s Day 21st Jun 2023 Make Music Day 21st Jun 2023 World Giraffe Day July 4th Jul 2023 American Independence Day 7th Jul 2023 World Chocolate Day 14th Jul 2023 Bastille Day 14th Jul 2023 Shark Awareness Day 20th Jul 2023 World Chess Day 29th Jul 2023 Global Tiger Day 31st Jul 2023 Harry Potter’s Birthday August 4th Aug 2023 International Owl Awareness Day 8th Aug 2023 International Cat Day 9th Aug 2023 Rice Pudding Day 10th Aug 2023 World Lion Day 12th Aug 2023 World Elephant Day 13th Aug 2023 Left Handers Day 14th Aug 2023 World Lizard Day 19th Aug 2023 International Orangutan Day 19th Aug 2023 World Photo Day 26th Aug 2023 International Dog Day September 6th Sep 2023 Read a Book Day 8th Sep 2023 International Literacy Day 9th Sep 2023 Teddy Bear Day 18th Sep 2023 Read An Ebook Day 19th Sep 2023 Talk Like A Pirate Day 23rd Sep 2023 International Day of Sign Languages 24th Sep 2023 World Rivers Day 24th Sep 2023 International Rabbit Day October 1st Oct to 31st Oct 2023 Black History Month 1st Oct 2023 Coffee Day 4th Oct to 10th Oct 2023 World Space Week 5th Oct 2023 World Smile Day 10th Oct 2023 Grandparents Day UK 15th Oct 2023 International Archaeology Day 21st Oct 2023 Apple Day 21st Oct 2023 World Singing Day 31st Oct 2023 Halloween November 3rd Nov 2023 World Jellyfish Day 5th Nov 2023 Guy Fawkes Night 11th Nov 2023 Remembrance Day 12th Nov 2023 Diwali 13th Nov 2023 World Kindness Day 21st Nov 2023 World Hello Day 30th Nov 2023 St. Andrew’s Day December 3rd Dec 2023 International Day of People with Disabilities 7th Dec to 15th Dec 2023 Hanukkah 8th Dec 2023 Bodhi Day 21st Dec 2023 National Robin Day 24th Dec 2023 Christmas Eve 31st Dec 2023 New Year’s Eve |
