About Us
Opened by Penny and Kay in 1987 (hence the name PK!), we’ve become a popular pre-school providing care, learning and preparation for school to families in Grayshott and surrounding villages. Over the years we’ve successfully built strong links with local schools and the community.
PK is a registered Charity (a non-profit-making organisation). We work closely with Hampshire County Council, Services for Young Children, the Early Learning Alliance and OFSTED. We’re very proud of our achievements and for being recognised as Outstanding in all areas following our assessment from OFSTED (March 2022)
Our Curriculum
What will my child learn?
All activities at PK are tailored to your child’s individual needs – ensuring they’re age and stage appropriate.
Children follow the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) – as set out by the Department for Education and Skills. The Framework provides a good balance of daily adult-led activities and child-initiated learning.
We focus on the following key areas in our assessment of your child:
The Unique Child
Every child is a unique who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable and self-assured.
Positive Relationships
Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships.
Enabling Environments
Children learn and develop well in enabling environments, with teaching and support from adults, who respond to their individual interests and needs and help them to build their learning over time. Children benefit from a strong partnership between practitioners and parents and/or carers.
Learning & Development
Children develop and learn at different rates. The framework covers the education of all children in the early years, including children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
Play based activities are enhanced by staff both indoors and outdoors dependent on the development and interests of the individual child.
PK Preschool Curricular Goals & Outcomes:
Prime Areas:
Experience a language-rich environment
Take part in back-and-forth interactions with adults and peers throughout the day
Engage actively with frequent stories
Encouraged to share ideas
Experience strong, warm, and supportive relationships with adults
Manage emotions and develop a positive sense of self
Learn how to look after their bodies
Pursue happy, healthy, and active lives
Play both indoors and outdoors
Explore and play with rich and varied resources and develop proficiency, control, and confidence.
Communication & Language
Personal, Social & Emotional Development
Physical Development
Specific Areas:
Develop a lifelong love of reading
Acquire language comprehension through talking and sharing books with adults
Communicate using meaningful marks
Develop a deep understanding of numbers to 10
Frequent Opportunities to develop special reasoning
Have positive attitudes and interests in Mathematics
Make sense of their physical world and their community
Foster an understanding of our culturally, socially, technologically, and ecologically diverse world
Enrich and widen vocabulary
Foster imagination and creativity
Active engagement with the arts
Interpret and appreciate what they hear, respond to, and observe
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts and Design
PK’s Children learning objectives are to:
- Grow each child’s confidence, and enable them to feel secure in their new environment
- Work with other children and adults
- Communicate and express their ideas and feelings
- Develop hand/eye co-ordination
- Develop pre-reading skills and encourage the love, and understanding of books
- Introduce the use of mathematical language
- Discover and examine the natural world
- Make their own decisions, to work towards independence
- Practice physical skills
- Have fun … and so much more!
Parents and carers are welcome to join in the fun each week; by sharing stories, baking, painting, getting involved in all activities.
Everyone is welcome at PK Preschool.