Our Rooms

Leverets

Our Leverets room is home to our youngest children, aged 3 months to around 18 months. The room benefits from a large window and sliding door overlooking the field allowing for plenty of natural light and a lovely open feel, bringing the outside in. A sensory corner, physical exploration space, cosy reading area and role play zone all support the prime areas development; communication and language, personal social and emotional and physical development. The Leverets also have use of a separate cot room and bathroom as well as their own pop up garden, use of the field and Nature Garden and trips off site to places such as the library. 

 

Your child’s Key Person will start building that important bond with them from the minute they start their first settling in session and we will work closely with you to ensure that their routines mimic, as closely as possible, what they are used to at home. 

 

We value this strong relationship and communication with you, as your child’s most important educator, and through daily interactions, our ‘Famly’ app and Facebook pages love to share information about your child's achievements as well as updates on their care. This close partnership helps you and your child to feel secure and settled, supporting their curiosity and confidence as they explore their environment.

 

Our curriculum in Leverets:

 

Explore: Discovering with their senses

 

What we focus on: Helping our youngest children use their senses (seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling) to discover the world around them. We provide lots of interesting things for them to experience.

 

What this means for your child: They will feel safe and build strong bonds with our team. They will also become curious about the world around them.

Bunnies

Our Bunnies room is home to our children aged 18 months to around 2 and a half years.  A freeflow playground is attached to this room allowing the children to often have the opportunity to take their learning either indoors or outdoors. 

 

The indoor space encourages children to independently investigate a wide range of natural and real world resources amongst well known books and popular toys which have been carefully selected to spark their imagination, enrich their knowledge and investigate new ideas in all areas of the EYFS. 

 

Outside, in their free flow area, the Bunnies benefit from a herb garden where they learn to care for and investigate the different properties of the plants, incorporating them into their role play and mud kitchen. There are also many opportunities for furthering their physical skills and safely taking risks through riding bikes, using the climbing equipment and balancing along beams and tyres. On top of this,  the Bunnies have use of the large playground, field and Nature Garden for weekly Forest School sessions as well as trips off site for things such as feeding the ducks or rhyme time at the library.

 

Our curriculum in Bunnies:

 

Investigate: Trying things out

 

What we focus on: Encouraging toddlers to investigate new ideas and learn by trying things out. They will start to understand how things work.

 

What this means for your child: They will become inquisitive and want to learn more about the world. They will also become brave and enjoy taking risks.

Hares

Our Hares room is home to our eldest children aged around 2 and half to 4 years. In this room there is a strong focus on independence, confidence and resilience as we get our children prepared to head off to primary school. The Hares benefit from a large room with resources specifically picked to develop key school readiness skills,  capture their imagination and foster a keen interest in the world around them. We invest in helping them to develop important social skills that will help them build friendships for life. 

 

The Hares also benefit from a free flow area where they can challenge their imaginations as they grow their own herbs to use in their mud kitchen, explore maths concepts in their sand tray and enjoy books in their reading area. This is not their only outdoor space, as they have weekly Forest School sessions in our very own Nature Garden, a growing area and a large playground. We often go on off site trips to places like the local care home and supermarket.

 

We have fantastic links with the local schools and this helps ensure that our children are comfortable and ready when it comes to their transition to primary school. Each year, we invite the teachers to visit the children as well as schedule visits to the local schools to take part in their forest school sessions and other activities. The children also do daily “pre-school skills” sessions where they strengthen  things such as fine motor skills, problem-solving abilities and fun letter recognition play based experiences to help them prepare and develop a lifelong love of learning.

 

Our curriculum in Hares:

 

Challenge: Thinking for themselves

 

What we focus on: Challenging our older children to think for themselves, solve problems, and become more independent as they get ready for school.

 

What this means for your child: They will become confident in taking safe risks and will be able to explore and investigate on their own. They will also have important social skills, such as sharing, taking turns, and working together with their friends.