Children are born ready, able and eager to learn.
A mindset we build on by offering opportunities to interact in positive relationships and enabling environments each and every day.
Our ethos is to capture the children’s imagination with good old fashioned childhood play while working within the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum. Our research-based, family group approach means we believe our children are building confident, resilient attitudes to learning which will support them throughout their lives.
The Bears Den
The Big Room is where our Bears are based for all their meals and group time activities. Cooking and art activities happen in the Big room.
The projects in this room are based around the seven different continents. Each project lasts 6 weeks and looks at the different animals and their environments, the people and their cultures and finally we talk about folklore and storytelling. The projects are; The Orient, Medieval Europe, Africa, Australasia, The Rainforest, Native North America and Cold Places.
The Tigers Den
The Little Room is where our Tigers are based for all their meals and group time activities. Sensory activities happen in the Little Room.
The projects in this room are based storytelling and each story links in with the project taking place in The Big Room. The projects are; The Jungle Book, Peter Rabbit/The Farm, Handa’s Surprise, Goldilocks and the 3 Koalas, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Ginger Bread man. We also do a short project for Christmas.
The Lions Den
The Hall is where our Lions are based for all their meals and group time activities. This room is our Pre School focused room and is where all our school readiness classes; a communication and language class and a math class take place.
We have set zones that focus on different areas of the EYFS, for example our literacy corner that centres around books, puppets and storytelling, our home corner with role play and fancy dress to develop their Personal, Social and Emotional skills and our woodwork and crafting areas to build their fine motor and physical development.
The Club age from 4 years
The Club is our breakfast, out of school and holiday club for children from 4 years of age.
Breakfast and Out of School Club are based in The Hall and are operational between the hours of 08:00 – 09:00, before school and 15:00 – 18:30, after school including teacher training days. During the holiday’s children can attend between 08:00 –18:30. Although based in the Hall, we have old fashioned values and spend as much time out and about in our local community.
