Tiverton Little Stars has an amazing mix of indoor and outdoor spaces including a purpose-built canopy to permit outdoor activities in all weathers.
Indoor
We have a wonderful purpose built setting, which comprises a main room inside with great cloakroom space, children’s toilets, and our own kitchen for preparing snacks. We have a base for each of our activities and enjoy a circle time together full of chat, exploration, new ideas, listening and attention games as well as some learning based on the EYFS areas.
We plan our activities daily and they are really individual throughout the week to support all of the children. We then enjoy snacks together and move into a totally free flow session. During our free flow lots of the children’s favourite toys are available, we also plan specific activities to engage and inspire them to get involved. Examples include making a duck pond, a fairy land, science week, exploring technology, using the ipad and non fiction books to learn about our interests, we cook, make smoothies, melt ice, fill balloons, make rockets, elephants, cards, letters to home – the list is endless!
Outdoor
We love our amazing outside space and we are really lucky to have two purpose built areas, the rear garden we use for most free flow and the playground with its new substantial canopy allowing us to venture outside in all but the worst of the winter weather. This is full of challenging obstacles, climbing equipment, an area for riding bikes and scooters and lots of other equipment to engage and fascinate your child.
We plan really carefully for our outside space so that the children get a good balance of experiences, from being busy on the bikes, washing the bikes and car, making a car park, selling car park tickets, organising the cars and bikes by numbers and playing traffic lights or road safety games.
We also plan a role play activity outside such as – pirates, theatre, home corner, restaurants, cafés, shops, art and craft stations, garden club, beach shop, campsites and we even build an aeroplane once! We decorate the garden, tidy the garden, take care of the toys outside. We also have mini games going on to keep everyone busy and learning – building car ramps, rivers, ice trays, painting, talking, reading in our cosy book nook and cooking up a storm in our mud kitchen.