Services

BABIES 6 WEEKS TO 2 YEARS 6 MONTHS

We ensure babies have a welcoming, warm and safe and secure environment to learn, with staff that understand the individual needs of each child and offer stimulating play through each stage of your child’s development. Our dedicated and caring staff will help both you and your baby settle into nursery life.

The early years are crucial in helping the child gain self-confidence through secure relationships with understanding and interesting adults.

You will already have noticed your baby takes a lot of interest in their environment. Staff will encourage them to learn and explore through a wide range of stimulating activities and conversation. Areas in the nursery are very homely and inviting, carpeted with cushions and rugs offering a wide Varity of play equipment.

Children’s language develops through a wide variety of sensory and perceptual experiences – in conversation, listening to and observing the world around them.

The children’s curiosity and interests are aroused by playing with basis materials, which offer opportunities to compare and categories (i.e. treasure basket and heuristic play.) Thus encouraging them to communicate with others.

Your child’s body will become more coordinated through a wide range of physical activities with some of these including push along toys, movement to music, small construction and sensory equipment. We will also involve them in activities with sand, water, playdough and arts and crafts.

Brightly coloured toys and natural sensory materials are used to help your baby develop senses and physical abilities.

We help your child grow in all areas of development with little hands encouraged to glue, bake, build and paint often with anything that comes to hand. We encourage independence at snack and mealtimes, by encouraging children to feed themselves.

And don’t forget the old favourites of singing and music, stories and rhymes which is done in the nursery all the time, this helps your child develop language skills.

This gives just a taste of the warmth, security, fun and stimulating environment which your baby will be part off.

Babies determine their own timetable, but your child’s keyworker will take care of their every need throughout the day. A weekly plan of activities is on display. There is also a daily diary for each child regarding meals, changing, sleep, bottles, fun, games and cuddles. Parents are encouraged to write down any information they wish to relay to staff. However, it is important to remember staff are always available to chat to you about your child’s day, or about their overall progress and development.

TODDLERS 2 YEARS 6 MONTHS TO 5

As your child grows with age and development they will enter the toddler room this is done gradually over a period of weeks with a settling in period with their old keyworker to allow both you and your child to settle into their new area and to get to know their new friends.

Your child still has the opportunities he/she had before but we provide more variety of activities and outings, we start to look at changing seasons and different cultures in our world.

We provide lots of creative play, outdoor play, music and dance, arts and crafts, speech development by telling stories and singing songs, dramatic and imaginative play. Through these experiences your child will develop a caring, sharing attitude.

A wide range of activities are provided to help each child to progress in all areas of their development with particular emphasis on their social skills.

The children are encouraged to develop independence skills, choose what they want to play with and to share and play with their new found friends. At this stage we introduce small groups.

We ensure each child has the opportunities to talk, listen, think and build on their communication skills and confidence.

At this stage we introduce your child to colours and shapes, extensive art and crafts along with sand and water and lots of outside physical play.

Don’t forget the fun we have when the dressing up clothes are put on and imagination runs riot as the children indulge in their own role platy activities.

PHYSICAL PLAY

The most stimulating and exciting physical equipment for the young child is often the simplest and the most easily improved or acquired. Old car tyres are great for pushing, rolling, crawling through. Boxes, barrels and planks can be made into great caves, houses, cars. Often the muscular activities of building are the preliminary to imaginative play. Both language and social skills can develop as children co-operate with each other while acting out imaginary play.

HOME CORNER/DRESSING UP

Dressing up in the home corner provides opportunities for social and emotional development. Children enjoy recreating familiar situations and role playing being mummy or daddy, police man, fire man. Some children find relief in acting out their emotions and learn about other peoples reactions through play situations.

CREATIVE PLAY

The pleasure of exploring the texture of paint and the movement of the brush can be extended to include many different experiences. Children enjoy finger-painting, sponges, drawing, charcoal, pencils and crayons. Children put lots of effort into their collage, junk modelling. It is therefore necessary that adults respect what they have made.

All these activities help to develop hand and eye co-ordination, promote freedom of expression and stimulate imagination.

WATER AND SAND

Playing with materials such as water, sand, dough, natural and manufactures materials children learn all about textures and shape at the same time improving their muscular co-ordination, wherever they find sand children will dig it, run their fingers through it and build with it.

These experiences lead to the beginning of mathematical and scientific discovery coming from exploring and discovering sand and water.

BOOKS AND MUSIC

Many children will experience the joy of looking through books and listening to stories for the first time in nursery, children who have had this experience at home will be eager to learn more.

We encourage children to explore books themselves as well as having adults read to them. The primary reason for listening to stories, saying or singing nursery rhymes is enjoyable but the child is also learning to listen with concentration and learn about language.

Children derive a great deal of fun from music, and using musical instruments, exploring the different sounds, listening and moving to a wide Varity of music from around the world.

LEARNING THROUGH PLAY

To deny or restrict play opportunities implies the denial and restriction of an essential preparation for the complex strenuous and demanding life of an adult in modern society. It is therefore important that a wide range of activities be available to meet the demand of children with differing needs and at different development stages.