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The nursery offers a wide range of daily activities from outdoor play to more formal learning environments. These settings are:
Snowdrop room
Our Snowdrop room caters for very young children aged from three months. Children spend time in Snowdrop until they are mobile and progress to being steady walkers. The staff ratio in this room is one adult to every three children. The children follow the Early Years Foundation Stage which focuses on learning through play.
Buttercup room
Babies move into our Buttercup room when they are able to walk continuing to follow the Early Years Foudation Stage.
Sunflower Room
Our Sunflower room caters for children between two and three years. The staff ratio is one adult to every four children. Sunflower children progress on the Early Years Foudation Stage.
Bluebell room
Children move into the nursery's Bluebell room at the time of their third birthday where activities follow the Early Years Foundation Stage in preparation for school.
This room provides a well equipped learning environment integrated into a pleasant play area. The learning themes include:
- Discovering science
- Story and quiet corner
- Language and literacy area
- Construction
- Sand and water play
- Small world
- Creative corner
- Home corner and role play
- Mathematical area
- Computer area with an interactive smartboard and numbers of additional computers.
The children cover six main themes throughout the year. The staff ratio is one adult to every eight children.
Other information
- Food - well balanced menus with homemade food that caters for all dietary requirements provided by the nursery's own cook
- Involving parents - the nursery has an active parents group that meets regularly throughout the year
- Trips and celebrations are an important part of the nursery's activities
- The nursery has special links with a pre-school being developed in Sri Lanka