About Us
Our aim is to provide a safe, happy and enjoyable environment to stimulate and enhance the development of nursery age children, through a wide variety of structured and unstructured play/experiences. Our commitment is that your child will go home stimulated, well fed, happy and clean so you can spend quality time together.
Our specially tailored curriculum is centred around the nationally approved Early Learning Years Foundation Stage. This includes:
1. Personal and Social Development
2. Knowledge and Understanding of the world
3. Physical Development
4. Creative development
5. Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy.
These provide a solid foundation for independence, responsibility and confidence therefore preparing and encouraging future learning. We feel that children learn best through first hand experience and when they are enjoying themselves. As a result we make every activity FUN.
The children are regually taken to local parks, libraries, garden centres, the post office, etc. Our annual nursery outing is normally to a place of interest such as the farm, the zoo, or model village.
Holidays
The nursery closes for holidays at the following times:
One week at Christmas
Two weeks in August
One week at Easter
We want children to feel safe and happy in the absence of their parents, to recognise other adults as a source of authority, help develop friendship and to be able to share with their parents afterwards the new learning experiences in the Nursery. In order to accomplish this we will do the following:
· Encourage parents to visit the Nursery with their children during the weeks before an admission is planned.
· We believe that a home visit is appropriate before each child starts the Nursery.
· Ensure families are supported in the Nursery for as long as it is necessary to settle their child.
· Introduce new families into the group on a staggered basis, i.e. no more than two a day. We operate a key person/key worker system.
Outside area
We have a large outside area where children can play happily and safely. We have a large supply of play equipment as well as this during the Spring/Summer months we plant seeds in our green area which encourages our children to learn about fruits, vegetables and creepy crawlies!
This summer we have been lucky enough to find a birds nest filled with eggs!
Baby Room
Babies aged 6 months to 2years are cared for in this room. The routine here is very flexible and parents are asked to bring their own daily routine in from home when starting nursery. The babies have a large selection of appropriate toys and activities based on good practice outlined in “Early Years Foundation Stage”. Here the babies participate in free play, having stories read to them, singing copying different sounds and cuddles to help develop social skills. A report is completed and given verbally every day to parents until successful ‘settling in’ is achieved. This includes a feed back of your baby’s progress during the day. Parents also receive a detailed six monthly development report on the child’s progress.
Pre-school Room
Children from age 2 years to 5 are cared for in this room. Under the umbrella of the “Early Years Foundation Stage”, which incorporates the Early Learning goals, the children are offered a wide range of activities, which include arts and crafts, painting, water and sand play, story time, music and movement, indoor and outdoor games and many other pastimes suitable for this group.
Pre-school activities include: Drawing, painting, mark making, completing puzzles, gluing and sticking, number and letter recognition, letter and number formation, phonics, guided pre-reading and many more. Activities here are carried out to encourage all round development and to make learning FUN.