Nursery Rooms

Our Day Nursery follows the Early Years Foundation Stage (statutory guidance implemented throughout the setting) and  Development Matters, which is non-statutory curriculum guidance to support.

  1. The best for every child
  2. High-quality care
  3. The curriculum – what we want the children to learn
  4. Pedagogy - the theory for teaching children
  5. Assessment: checking what children have learnt
  6. Self-regulation and executive function
  7. Partnership with parents
  1. Playing and Exploring
  2. Active Learning
  3. Creating and Thinking Critically
  • Communication and Language development
  • Personal, Social and Emotional Development
  • Physical Development
  • Literacy
  • Mathematics
  • Understanding the World
  • Expressive Arts and Design

In addition to the above specific requirements for the operation of Our Day Nursery, we also feel it is important to encourage participation from parents and carers. Therefore, representatives are chosen from each room to form our Parent Nursery Association. Each room also has a mascot, which is taken home weekly by one of the nursery children, allowing them to communicate the adventures of the mascot each week in our mascot diary, supporting parent partnership.

Outdoor Area

Our unique location enables us to provide children at the nursery with a safe, secure outdoor area to which they all have access as part of their routines. It is designed to provide intriguing, engaging, and suitable elements for each stage of their development. There is a quiet space to read and be read to, a planting area where the children will grow flowers and vegetables, and play equipment to challenge their growing physical capabilities. Spending time outside in nature feeds their curiosity. It opens their eyes to the natural world - the changing seasons, growth and the creatures they’ll find - which all expand their knowledge and develop their sense of caring for our planet.

Baby Room

Ages: 6-18 months 

Capacity: 9 children & 3 team members

The Baby Room is designed to replicate a home-from-home environment, ensuring the children and families feel welcome, safe, secure and happy. The furniture and play equipment has been hand-picked for this room from Community Playthings, one of the leading providers of nursery furniture and equipment, whose motto is ‘Children come first’.

The room layout has separate yet interlinking areas where the children can play with resources designed to support, enhance and further their learning. These areas include:

  • A separate cot room
  • home corner
  • messy play
  • reading
  • construction
  • small world
  • sensory and physical play areas.

The team members design daily routines to include planned fun and educational activities using the children’s interests, creating an environment that encourages continuous learning.

The babies have access to the outdoor play areas with essential play equipment and planned time in the natural growing and planting sections. Here the team can spend time  in the calm and tranquil reading area with treasury baskets to stimulate the babies' senses. Access to our Sensory Room (coming in 2023) will be a regular activity that the babies can enjoy.

Transition Room

Ages: 18 months to 2 years 

Capacity: 6 children & 2 team members 

We added the Transition Room simply because we believe children of this age are experiencing an essential transitional stage as they develop into a more conscious sense of self.

The room is designed to include all elements of our Baby Room with adaptions to support the abilities of this age range and allow for increased autonomy.

The benefits of a smaller room capacity allows the focus to be placed on this transitional stage, which we feel is critical for children of this age. From experience, this approach greatly assists with moving into the Toddler Room.

Toddler Room

Ages: 2-3 years 

Capacity: 21 children & 6 team members

The world is now a much more exciting place for our toddlers, so it is important for this room to support their growing minds and need for exploration. We have created a fun and dynamic space full of resources that challenge and encourage investigative play.

The room layout features separate play areas focused on the 7 areas of learning that allows for the children to freely play in the space of their choosing.

The children have access to our outdoor play area, which includes equipment designed to challenge their physical capabilities and spark their imaginations. In our garden, we also have retained a substantial outhouse, which lends itself perfectly to an outdoor classroom (due for completion early 2024). Planting in our natural area will be a weekly activity, which will take place in our purpose-built space., Here they can participate in activities such as bug finding, have quiet time in the reading spaces and use their senses to listen to and identify birds.

Preschool Room

Ages: 3-5 years 

Capacity: 20 children & 3 team members 

School readiness is one of the key focuses of our Preschool Room. The journey through Baby, Transition and Toddler Rooms has prepared the children for a more structured and focused day. Here they start to learn phonics, letter formation, reading and numbers, with the aim of each child being able to write their name before starting reception. The Preschool Room is the last phase of their journey with us, and we want each child to feel confident moving on to the next chapter. As always, we support this through play, fun activities and the children's individual interests.

The room is arranged with table and chair space for focused learning alongside floor and activity space for play. These areas include (but are not limited to);

  • Messy play using a range of materials.
  • Role play areas with items to allow for imagination to flow.
  • A reading area that allows space for quiet time and storytelling.
  • A writing area for the children to be able to explore and practice their handwriting skills.
  • Construction and Small World area designed for children to be able to develop each other's play.

Mathematics area where children will be able to practise problem-solving tasks.

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