High/Scope Approach to Childcare

High/Scope provides children with:

• A consistent and flexible daily routine which provides for child and adult initiated activities.
• Opportunities to choose, plan, carry out and reflect on their activities.
• Opportunities for children to engage in the active participatory learning process.
• Adults who value and appreciate children and provide a creative and supportive learning climate.

Outcomes for Children:

• Children develop self-confidence, initiative, creativity and problem-solving skills.
• Children learn about social relationships, the world about them, maths, science and technology, reasoning and language.
• Children develop positive attitudes to self, others and to future learning.

What does a High/Scope setting look like?

• Clearly defined interest areas such as painting, sand and water, home, books and blocks.
• Many natural, real and open-ended materials
• Materials which are accessible to the children.
• Clearly labelled interest areas, shelves and storage containers which promotes the Find-Use-Return cycle.

Other skills we promote:

• Our pre-school teacher is committed to preparing the children for their transition to primary school as follows;
• Promoting good organization skills.
• Nurturing social skills which are for life.
• Improving manual dexterity e.g.: fastening shoe laces, buttons, zips, etc.
• Introducing pre writing skills.
• Developing the children’s drawing and colouring skills
• Introduction to the Irish language.