Older children

Our children enjoy a stimulating environment, with carefully planned experiences, games and teaching activities that enable each child to learn, discover, explore and make friends. Each child has a key worker who carefully monitors progress and development. By providing a broad range of activities, we cater for your child’s physical, intellectual, educational, social and language needs, instilling children with confidence in their own abilities.

Children at Independent Place Day Nursery benefit from the optimum balance, of a carefully planned early year’s educational curriculum, structured and free play. This ensures valuable one to one and small group attention whilst children are involved in learning activities. The carefully tailored curriculum is methodically planned using the Early Learning Goals.

Research shows that an educational Nursery provides a child with solid foundations for future learning, whilst developing social skills, independence and self esteem. Children leave Independent Place Nursery with confidence, increased levels of concentration, a positive approach to learning, excellent social skills, and a head start, that paves the way to future success at School.

Activities include:

Maths - In an informal atmosphere the children discover and use numbers. Practical and written activities teach number recognition and develop mathematical understanding.

Language and literacy - Work is planned as activities games and worksheets. Children enjoy leaning the alphabet and early reading and writing skills.

Sand and water play - This stimulates children’s development in basic mathematical and scientific concepts such as mass, volume and capacity.

Early Science - Science is taught through experience, experiment and observations, such as growing seeds, magnet work and mirrors.

Art - We offer a full range of art and craft activities. This encourages creativity and originality. Cutting, sticking, clay, playdough and collage work are enjoyable and develop fine co-ordination skills.

Computers - The children’s computer enables them to explore and learn basic computer skills.

Imaginative Play - We have wonderful home corners, dressing up clothes, dolls houses and play characters which stimulate fantasy and role play. These develop an understanding of the world and enhance creativity.

Music and Movement - We have specialist visiting teacher for Music, and Movement. A selection musical instruments is used. Children participate in and learn musical games and activities which develop co-ordination.

Construction Toys - A number of building toys such as Poppoids, Megablocks and Duplo aid co-ordination and development as well as imagination. This forms the basis of early Technology work.

French - A specialist nursery French teacher visits the children each week and teaches in small groups.

Young Yoga - Our qualified, experienced yoga teacher works with all children every week.

The Garden - Our garden is a shaded, secluded oasis, and has a small nature area. We have an impact soft surface which enhances physical movement and protects children as they play. There are a wide range of outdoor activities for the children.