All Stars
Our 3 - 4 year olds
We have found it useful to pinpoint changes in routines at home or any new interests a child may have developed. These run alongside once-a-term parent open evenings where key workers put on display a range of photographs and even video clips of children during their days at nursery.
Getting the environment right
Our environment is crucial to offering appropriate challenges through planned purposeful play and it has taken us many years to get to where we are now. A timely refurbishment as part of the Neighbourhood Nursery Initiative in 2004 ensured that we were able to introduce a multi-sensory room that offers visual stimulus, particularly for the youngest babies but also for all children who love to visit the relaxing, quiet space. We also created our over-3s kitchen and tailored all the rooms to have baby change facilities and art sinks in every base room, or just off the base room. This means our staff have everything to hand when they are in the play spaces and the routines of the day flow with minimal interruptions. Handwashing before meals and toothbrushing afterwards have become much more straightforward - but more importantly it means that children receive more time throughout their sessions for children to direct their own play.
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