The Early Years at Richard Durning's Primary School aims to provide the highest quality of care and education for all our children thereby giving them a strong foundation for their future learning. We create a safe, creative and happy environment with motivating and enjoyable learning experiences that enable children to become confident, resilient and independent. We value the individual child and work alongside parents and others to meet their needs and help every child reach their full potential. 

Within the Early Years at Richard Durning's Primary School we aim to provide first hand learning experiences, whilst allowing the children to build resilience, ambition and integrity. Every child is recognised as a unique individual and we celebrate and welcome differences within our school community. The well balanced curriculum is designed to: recognise children's prior learning from any previous settings and their experiences at home and it is designed to cater for their ideas and interests. 

We provide enhancement opportunities to engage learning and believe that their first experiences of school should be happy and positive, enabling them to develop a lifelong love of learning. 

Children leave the Early Years class ready to start the next academic year. They have the confidence and skills to make decisions and self-evaluate, make connections and become lifelong learners.

Within the Early Years, we will provide the children with a broad range of opportunities to develop and extend their vocabulary drawing on experiences and learning.