Nursery

Hoglets 6 months-16 months

Hedgehogs 17 months-2 years

Our cosy and calm Baby Unit is designed to feel like a home away from home. With a strong focus on warmth, routine and one-to-one attention, we support your baby’s early development through sensory play, songs, stories and lots of cuddles. Each child has a key person to provide continuity, comfort and personalised care.

Our curriculum for babies is thoughtfully built around the three Prime Areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS):

Physical Development

We nurture your baby’s physical growth by supporting the key milestones of crawling, cruising and walking. Our specialist teachers deliver baby-safe P.E. sessions, offering opportunities for freedom of movement, balance and coordination. Babies can safely practise jumping, climbing and exploring, both indoors and in our beautifully designed outdoor spaces that inspire natural curiosity and discovery. We also begin to introduce early self-help and fine motor skills, from learning to use spoons during mealtimes, to scooping and pouring in sand and water play, and enjoying a variety of messy and sensory experiences.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Nurturing relationships are at the heart of everything we do. Our caring and consistent approach helps babies feel secure, building the foundations for future friendships and confidence as they grow.

Communication and Language

Through the introduction of core books, we immerse our babies in rich language experiences. Our specialist music teacher enhances this with sessions filled with rhythm, rhyme, and song which encourages early speech development and a love of sound, tone and storytelling.

Cubs 2-3 years

Badgers 2-3 years

In our Toddler Unit, little ones are busy exploring their independence and building confidence. Our caring team guides them through hands-on learning experiences that develop language, social skills and physical coordination all through our child led curriculum. As well as developing their independence and self help skills we encourage our children to use their freedom of choice throughout the day by offering a continuous range of activities and opportunities that they can get involved in at their own pace, including role play, ICT, board games, puzzles, construction, threading, literacy, loose parts, small world, messy play and creative activities. In order to extend and scaffold your child’s learning and to support the development of social skills like sharing and friendships we offer a variety of adult-led activities like singing, stories, meal times, and music and movement. Each of our rooms are utilised with careful consideration to the age and stage of each child as we are very aware that every child’s needs differ from each other, some are already confident and adventurous, and some need a little extra care and attention.

We actively promote physical development everyday in both our Cub and Badger Rooms through a variety of different activities including P.E, yoga, dance, squiggle while you wiggle, climbing, balancing, gardening and riding bikes. Physical activity encourages the development of hand eye coordination for reading and writing.

Communication language and literacy – Our children enjoy singing, reading, visiting the school library, drawing and finding out through play about letters and phonetic sounds. We know that by sharing books and telling favourite stories over and over again we can build special bonds and encourage conversations. Children love to talk about all sorts of things and share their ideas and experiences. We encourage your child to always express their thoughts, develop their voice and extend their vocabulary.

Personal, social and emotional development – In our Toddler Unit we encourage the development of making independent choices and support your child to begin to learn about their needs and feelings.

Mathematics – We enjoy extending important learning opportunities with your child. During their time in Cub’s and Badger’s we will support your child to begin to make predictions, understand familiar routines, sort and arrange objects and develop their mathematical language. Through play and songs your child will find out about size, numbers, shapes, colours, and learn to use their fingers to represent quantities.

Understanding of the world – Our Toddler children love to explore and extend their learning in our outdoor environments e.g. foraging for fruits to use in our cooking, catching minibeasts, digging for worms, jumping in puddles, and learning to stay safe as we use our forest school area. We also teach the children that it is very important to learn about different cultures and each other, therefore we enjoy sharing and learning about each other’s home languages and celebrations.

Expressive arts and design – Our Cub’s and Badger’s love to engage in role play and pretend play. This type of play helps your child to learn about other people’s ideas, feelings and actions. By pretending to be someone else they can begin to imagine other’s points of views. We also enjoy expressing ourselves through creative activities, like art, paint, music and dance and join in with short music sessions. Every music session with our specialist teacher will be different and our children will be given the opportunity to explore a variety of topic based songs with actions, and be introduced to different instruments.

Our Pre-Reception Room prepares children for their next steps into school. We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum, with an emphasis on communication, creativity, early maths and literacy, and self-care skills. We encourage curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning through child-led play, structured group time, and exciting projects