Learning & Development

Growing Together

Our mission is the ensure that all children are provided the opportunity to learn and develop through real life, hands on experiences. Becoming independent, curious and resilient life long learners.

Our stimulating and exciting indoor and outdoor environment is thoughtfully designed to provide children with enhanced opportunities to learn and develop in their early learning goals, across all seven areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage. 

A key person is assigned for every individual child, ensuring their needs are met and enabling them to feel safe and secure in the nursery environment. Each key person will observe and monitor progress and development through ongoing observations, using photos and videos, which are shared with parents via our online nursery app Famly. This enables parents to understand and be part of their child's learning journey, and ways in which they can support their children's next steps.

We encourage parents to contribute to their child’s learning journey, inviting you to add photo/videos and observations from home, sharing your child’s experiences and key interests. Sharing information enables us to enhance these interests and experiences within nursery.

Freedom to learn through Nature

Through exciting outdoor exploration and discovery children develop their confidence, resilience, and physical and mental wellbeing. As well as this, children gain an understanding the world we live in and the importance of sharing our space with nature, leading them to think about what we can do protect and preserve our environment.

We provide hands on exciting experiences such as Forest School, Gardening, growing flowers to encourage the bee's and other insects, encouraging wildlife such as birds and hedgehog's, den building, composting, growing vegetables for our kitchen, and learning where our food comes from.

We are very fortunate to be able to look after some very special farm animals. Our pigs Peppa and Penelope love seeing the children and having their ears scratched! Children are very confident in caring for the on site animals, which include pigs, chickens, a cockerel, fish, cats, rabbits and guinea pigs.

Food & Health

Good nutrition is essential for children's growth and development,  with diet being one of the most important parts of living a healthy lifestyle. It's important to us to ensure that children receive a variety of nutritional meals, packed full of goodness to fuel their busy day.

Children take part in activities such as preparing their own food at mealtimes, cooking, baking and planting fruit and vegetables in our own garden. We also focus on health through physical activities, promoting oral health and wellbeing activities through nature, yoga and relaxation.

We provide children with a variety of well balanced meals and encourage positive eating habits and patterns. Our nursery cook prepares and cooks all meals in our nursery kitchen, using a variety of fresh quality produce. Our rolling menu provides a selection of seasonal dishes and can be adapted to meet any dietary requirements.

Children are offered whole milk at snack and mealtimes, and have access to water at all times to ensure they remain well hydrated throughout the day.