Early Years
Our Early Years Foundation Stage teaches children aged 18 months to 5 years (Pre-Crèche to Foundation Stage 2). We believe in play-based learning, and our children can explore various daily activities with free-flow access to the different classrooms and our beautiful garden. Outdoors, children can whip up culinary delights in the mud kitchen and sandpit or look after our vegetable garden.
We encourage a love for reading in our Early Years. Children have weekly library sessions, free access to a reading room, and daily story time sessions, as well as beginning to learn how to read themselves.
Early Years
Our Early Years Foundation Stage teaches children aged 18 months to 5 years (Pre-Crèche to Foundation Stage 2). We believe in play-based learning, and our children can explore various daily activities with free-flow access to the different classrooms and our beautiful garden. Outdoors, children can whip up culinary delights in the mud kitchen and sandpit or look after our vegetable garden.
We encourage a love for reading in our Early Years. Children have weekly library sessions, free access to a reading room, and daily story time sessions, as well as beginning to learn how to read themselves.
Our Learning Framework
Prime Areas
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Specific Areas
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts and Design
Characteristics of Effective Learning
Playing and Exploring
Active Learning
Creative and Critical Thinking
Our Learning Environment
Our classrooms are designed with age-appropriate furniture and resources, creating a safe, nurturing learning environment. Outdoor areas encourage exploration, physical activity, and sensory play, and include a vegetable garden, mud kitchen, sandpit and role-play area.
Our Learning Environment
Our classrooms are designed with age-appropriate furniture and resources, creating a safe, nurturing learning environment. Outdoor areas encourage exploration, physical activity, and sensory play, and include a vegetable garden, mud kitchen, sandpit and role-play area.
Learners Enjoying Success
Our Early Years teachers nurture each child’s individual learning journey. Through personalised support and engaging classroom experiences, we ensure that every child makes steady progress towards the Early Learning Goals.
Parents are active partners in this process, with regular opportunities to engage in their child’s development through our ‘Learning Journeys’, which capture and celebrate milestones, achievements, and next steps along the way.
Learners Enjoying Success
Our Early Years teachers nurture each child’s individual learning journey. Through personalised support and engaging classroom experiences, we ensure that every child makes steady progress towards the Early Learning Goals.
Parents are active partners in this process, with regular opportunities to engage in their child’s development through our ‘Learning Journeys’, which capture and celebrate milestones, achievements, and next steps along the way.
Our Approach
We aim to nurture confident, happy, and inquisitive learners who develop a love of learning from the very beginning. In Early Years, children learn best when they are engaged, curious, and having fun. Each half-term, we explore broad and exciting themes that spark children’s imaginations and link naturally across areas of learning, from Language and Literacy to Maths, Art, and the world around them.
Children develop key skills such as problem-solving, communication, creativity, and independence through play. Teachers carefully plan opportunities that balance child-led exploration with adult-guided learning, ensuring that every child is supported to thrive at their own pace.
Our Approach
We aim to nurture confident, happy, and inquisitive learners who develop a love of learning from the very beginning. In Early Years, children learn best when they are engaged, curious, and having fun. Each half-term, we explore broad and exciting themes that spark children’s imaginations and link naturally across areas of learning, from Language and Literacy to Maths, Art, and the world around them.
Children develop key skills such as problem-solving, communication, creativity, and independence through play. Teachers carefully plan opportunities that balance child-led exploration with adult-guided learning, ensuring that every child is supported to thrive at their own pace.