Nursery (2½ - 4 yrs)

During this time a child’s brain develops faster than at any other point. Children are like sponges, absorbing information at an astonishing rate. An outstanding education in a child’s early years lays the foundations for everything that follows. 

However, being rooted in a school community brings additional benefits:

• Experienced and highly qualified staff with degrees in Early Years education and, from Kindergarten upwards, qualified teacher status. Your child is in the safest of hands.
• Excellent staff ratios meaning individual care and attention aplenty for your child, and the flexibility as a parent to add extra sessions when needed.
• A head start thanks to purposeful, exciting and creative activities, which encourage gross and fine motor skills, develop pre-phonological skills and lay the foundations for thinking skills. They believe they are playing with little robots; we know they are engaged in deep learning.
• The children become familiar with the characters Have a Go Hippo, Choosing Chimp and Busy Bee to assist them in making decisions.
• Meaningful partnership with parents: from the home visit before your child starts, to termly parents’ evenings and regular online feedback; from the daily face to face updates on potty training and naps, to help with the small but important worries (yours and theirs!)
• Access to facilities galore: think purpose-built sensory and climbing areas,  all weather play spaces – padded for the inevitable tumbles – nature areas for exploring, technology such as light boxes and ipads.
• The seamless transition into Reception that comes from a joined up curriculum spanning ages 2 to 11, familiarity with routines, staff and buildings and a sense of already belonging to the community