The setting operates on two floors: Downstairs is for our fun loving and inquisitive babies from the age of approximately 0- 20 months toand our upstairs is for our ever-developing children from the age of approximately 20 months – 2.5 years of age.
Our staff always make sure that a parent handover takes place. This ensures positive relationships with parents and promotes communication and consistency between the care given at nursery and at home.
Here at Little Blossoms, we encourage independence in a variety of ways, such as moving from highchairs to little captain chairs for meal times as they are beginning to feed themselves (with the help from carers !!).
All of our children enjoy lots of messy activities from sand, water, painting, jelly, shaving foam, play dough, glupe, pasta and much more (the messier the better!) We do something different each day. These activities encourage children’s creativity and social skills. They have the opportunity to learn academic skills along with opportunities for fun. These also help to promote their physical and social skills.
We offer the kind of activities that may prove to be completely impractical at home. This makes nursery unique and exciting to the children. We offer a wide variety of activities and resources to ensure we find something to stimulate every child’s needs.
All of our children are offered the choice of wanting a sleep, sleep and rest encourages growth and development and also recharges their mind. However, some of our older children have grown out of this and are full of energy throughout their busy day.
We love our mud kitchen
All of our activities are planned to stimulate the children’s existing interests. Adults may take a leading role during some of these whereas the children may take the initiative with others and take the activity in a direction of their choice. All of our activities throughout Little Blossoms follow the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage).
We encourage our older toddlers to become as independent as they can, we enjoy a variety of different activities to promote this from finding our pictures as we arrive in the morning and posting them into the post box, we have a special book containing pictures of the toys so we can choose ourselves what we want to play with this in turn helps us to show and communicate our preference s to carers as to how we want to spend our day.
Home time
At the end of their busy day and as the parents come to collect their fun loving and active toddlers they are given a detailed hand over about any special moments for the day along with how their child’s day has been and what they have been up to.
