Play- children’s work
Play is children’s work: they learn through play, and providing opportunities for high quality play is important. Our staff will use their skills and creativity to organise activities and interact with babies and young children so that they learn as they play.
Play is a complex concept that requires trained staff with an ability to assess the needs of each child to identify the stage that individual children have reached. Play allows for mistakes, caters for those who learn more quickly or slowly, and disregards gender, race or creed.

Child friendly environment
Learning
Lifelong learning starts at birth. Babies and young children are active learners. They learn mainly through using their senses and experiencing things at first hand. Each day, we will offer your child a planned programme of activities, adapted to their needs and designed to give them the best possible start in life. As our staffs interact with your child, they make observations and assessments which they share with you, keeping you informed of your child’s physical and intellectual growth and development. We work in partnership with you to foster a love for learning in your child.

Babies and Toddlers
Our rooms focus on a sensory approach as the sense of touch is key in the early stages of developments. Babies and toddlers explore materials, objects and educational toys while closely supervised by our staff. They play with paint, sand and water and enjoy discovering, grasping, rolling and looking at interesting objects. At this stage in their lives children spend much time on or near the floor. Equipment and displays are placed at this level so that they can see, touch, feel and investigate their environment close up. Ceilings are covered with hanging, eye-catching objects as children spend time on their backs looking up. Appropriate books are available for babies and toddlers to look through with staff, providing early speaking and listening skills. Listening to sounds, music and rhymes encourage speech and language development. Play is focused on helping your child develop self-care skills, as well as encouraging independence.

Pre-school
Our pre-school environment is organised around the six areas of the foundation stage curriculum. Although this is a time when most children need a more structured approach to their development, they still need to learn through play-based activities. Numeracy is achieved through singing rhymes, playing in the imaginative play area, using sand and water to measure and weigh, counting everyday objects and taking part in games and directed activities with adults. Using Information Technology is also an integrated part of the offered curriculum. Social events such as eating and playing together, as part of a group, support children as they move from a nursery environment into a reception class.
Interesting practical opportunities to develop numeracy and literacy skills are part of our everyday programme. Children are encouraged to spend time with books- alone, with friends, or listening in a group- to learn the shapes, sounds and names of letters.