A rich, varied and interest-led Early Years Education ensures that by the time your child leaves for school, they are Confident, Inquisitive and Independent.
Read more about how we support your child’s development during these crucial years.
A rich, varied and interest-led Early Years Education ensures that by the time your child leaves for school, they are Confident, Inquisitive and Independent.
Read more about how we support your child’s development during these crucial years.
Based on the EYFS framework our approach is to:
The “Prime” areas of learning include:
The “Specific” areas of learning include:
Your child is assigned a Key Person from the moment they start at nursery and the Key Person uses an individual, child centered approach to your child’s development. This ensures that your child fulfils their next steps and is stimulated through a variety of spontaneous and planned activities, as well as a balance of adult initiated and child led activities, based on their likes and dislikes.
Your child will have an interactive Learning Journal that follows them through their time at nursery to capture a record of all their achievements and special moments. We place a high emphasis on parent partnership and strongly encourage parents to add to the Learning Journal with special moments, holidays and new interests that happen outside of nursery. This helps us to create a fuller picture of your child’s life and to develop further challenging activities and interests within the setting.
Once your child reaches the Pre-School Suite, we begin our Transition to School Program to ensure that your child is confident and well equipped to meet the challenges of their next phase of education. The Early Years Foundation Stage defines school readiness as ‘the broad range of skills, knowledge and attitudes children need as foundations for good future progress,’ and we facilitate this by focusing on the children making consistently high rates of progress in relation to their starting points.
Furthermore, we aim to provide an ambitious curriculum which observes the notion of ‘Cultural Capital’- meaning that we are not just ensuring your child is not only ‘school ready’, but ‘life ready’ instead. By the time your child leaves nursery for school, they will:
From your first interaction with our setting, everything nursery related can be found on our wonderful Early Childhood Management Platform- Famly. From invoices to sleep/ meal/ nappy times, developmental milestone to nursery news and calendar events, Famly is your user-friendly tool to provide peace of mind and always be in the loop with nursery life. Our parents love it!
You only have to look on our social media to know that our nurseries love a theme day or event! We hold many parent (and grandparent!) Stay & Play events throughout the year, as well as dress up days, cultural days, Sports Day, Christmas concerts and parties and much much more- Making for an expressive, imaginative and inclusive nursery experience for your child.
You can expect:
Parent Consultations prior to each room move which summarise your child’s progress and set learning goals together with you. This is accompanied by a showround and a ‘meet & greet’ handover with your child’s new key person.
A 2 Year Progress Check Report- around 2 Years 7 Months
A School Leaver Report
It is our greatest honour to play an important role in your child’s Early Years. And when the sad day comes to wish your family well on your next big adventure, we throw our big Graduation and School Leavers party for parents and children. Complete with ‘cap and gown’ photographs and heart-melting keepsakes, we’ll be happy to share the tissues with you!
Additional Education
We also offer ‘Stretch and Grow’ sessions for our older children. ‘Stretch and Grow’ involves exercise with stories an music and has proven to be very popular with our children.
Once your child reaches the Pre-School Suite, we begin our Transition to School Program to ensure that your child is confident and well equipped to meet the challenges of their next phase of education. The Early Years Foundation Stage defines school readiness as ‘the broad range of skills, knowledge and attitudes children need as foundations for good future progress,’ and we facilitate this by focusing on the children making consistently high rates of progress in relation to their starting points.
Furthermore, we aim to provide an ambitious curriculum which observes the notion of ‘Cultural Capital’- meaning that we are not just ensuring your child is not only ‘school ready’, but ‘life ready’ instead. By the time your child leaves nursery for school, they will:
Want to learn more about our Forest Area?
Some of our day nurseries have access to our exciting Forest Area, a large open space of woodland area, complete with trees, log stump seating area, make believe camp site, den areas, bird houses, twigs, leaves and plenty of insects and natural habitation. Based on the Scandinavian concept of ‘Forest Schools’, Forest Areas and forest activities are seen as a positive way to introduce children to the outdoors and to learn about the outdoor environment in a safe and secure atmosphere. Not only this, through long term and regular visits, Forest Area activities can teach children how to manage risks, use their initiative and learn the basics of co-operating with peers.