Following recent refurbishment and significant investment, the Nursery is alive with colour, excitement and inspiration. Children explore a range of media, techniques and textures in the creative room. Beyond this, two spacious classrooms offer a host of exciting and challenging learning areas, including a dedicated story corner, literacy and numeracy zones, imaginative role-play areas, small world, construction challenges, computer bays and an investigation area.
Fun and learning doesn’t just happen indoors either! Children love our special outdoor learning environment, which boasts a vast sandpit and adventure play area, two large fields and a vegetable and herb garden. They also enjoy a paved area for riding bikes, a range of playhouses, outdoor painting and water-based activities.
In the Nursery and Reception classes we focus on the following 6 key areas of learning and development within the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework:
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Communication, Language and Literacy
- Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
- Knowledge and Understanding of the World
- Physical Development
- Creative Development
Early Years staff interact, observe, extend and challenge the children in their learning opportunities. This allows staff to build a detailed picture of individual awareness for each child. From here, next steps can be planned and expectations are individual and personal.
Good communication with parents is a priority for us. All staff operate an open door policy. We provide regular written reports and hold parents’ evenings throughout the year. Alongside this, daily exchanges and a written weekly report describing events for the week are also provided and valued.
Children are able to join our Nursery in the term they turn 3 and we encourage our Nursery children to attend a mimimum of five sessions (half days) per week. Various half day and full day sessions are offered. Mornings are available from 8:45 – 11:45 and afternoons from 13:00 - 15:25. Both sessions also offer the option of staying for lunch. Activities are then available at the end of the School day, or our After School Club, Tembos is open until 18:00.
Come and see the wonderful opportunities on offer for your child today, click here to arrange a visit or request a prospectus.
