Nursery Life

Without exception our nursery day always involves plenty of opportunity for outdoor play and physical activity either in our lovely garden overlooking open countryside, out in the woods during Forest School sessions or by practising our forward rolls and balancing skills in the community hall within our building.

We have a free-flow environment which means that our back door is always open and enables children to choose whether they want to play inside or outside. The children can choose to play independently with a range of activities and resources on offer, this free play will be interspersed with planned adult led activities (often related to events, festivals or seasons) and games to develop sharing and focusing skills.

The nursery environment is designed to encourage independence skills therefore most of the resources are accessible to the children in low level units and clearly labelled drawers. We have child size toilets and sinks to promote independence with toileting and hand washing and each child has a labelled peg in the cloakroom for coats and personal belongings.

Our routines are limited and flexible so that we can give the children plenty of long uninterrupted periods of play, but we do always have a snack time mid-morning and mid-afternoon and come together for a story at the end of each session.

In addition to our main nursery room we are fortunate to have another large room which until recently had many uses. However, over the summer of 2019 the room was transformed into a sensory room with a very special Magic Carpet. The Magic Carpet engages the children in a fully interactive sensory experience in which they can choose from hundreds of exciting activities such as chasing autumn leaves, swimming with fish in a pond, scoring a goal, popping bubbles or flying to the moon. Needless to say, this fantastic resource is hugely popular with all of the children and we ensure that every child has access to the sensory room during the course of the week.