Welcome to the Pre-School

The Pre-School area is in the upstairs of the nursery and we encourage
the children to take part in different activities in our 3 different rooms.
This helps to promote their independence and choice.

We have 24 places within the pre-school unit for children aged 3 - 5 years.
We have 3 members of staff, therefore giving a staff to children ratio of 1:8.
In our pre-school we aim to provide a home from home environment, whilst
preparing children for school. We provide a wide variety of learning experiences
both indoors and out and will follow themes shared by the whole nursery.

How does our pre-school room work?

We have a jungle theme within our pre-school and have
named the rooms after jungle animals:

The Giraffe Room & Crocodile Room

These rooms are set out similar to a classroom to aid the transition for your childto school. The rooms have a book corner for quiet times, construction area, which promotes sharing and problem solving skills, an ICT area with a computer that the children can access freely and programmable floor toys such as bee-bots. We also have a investigation table where children can explore the world around them by using equipment such as magnifying glasses and telescopes, there is a graphics table to encourage early writing and sharing skills.

Both rooms are also used for free play and role-play. This promotes imaginative
play where the children can express themselves freely and interact with their peers.Each room has a home corner, dressing up clothes, farm set, railway, garage and vehicles and animals to name but a few! We encourage all pre-school children to access our self-registration system which allows the children to find their own name and place them on the board.

A variety of group activities are carried out to develop children's concentration and social skills daily, these include, memory games, soundtracks, flash cards and feely bags. Every session the children will be encouraged to participate in circle time which is adult led and provides opportunity for the children to talk to each others, share news and views, play circle games and sing songs. We encourage and promote the children's social skills and respect that each child is different. The children will have the opportunity to learn about other cultures and beliefs.

The Pre-School group follows plans and activities that encourage children in all areas of learning following the Foundation Stage. Long/short term and weekly plans can be found on the planning board at the top of the stairs.

The Parrot Room

This is our art and craft room used for a variety of creative and messy activities. The activities that take place within this room are planned and of free choice to ensure a mixture of different fun activities that the children will all enjoy. Activities carried out in this room include: painting, gluing and sticking, sand play, water play, junk modelling, messy play and creative designs that may be displayed around the nursery.The children are encouraged to participate in messy activities on a small and large scale for example, custard play, papier mache, jelly play, clay modelling etc. The children will have access to the range of materials that theyfeel they would like to experiment with. This enables the children to have the right and freedom to choose their own media to interpret their own work. We provide aprons and overalls for all messy activities.

We hope you and your child will be very happy
in our pre-school room.