The Children’s Rooms

The nursery has separate rooms for the babies, toddlers and older children; this ensures that the children of different ages receive the care, attention and appropriate education that they will need. 

Yellow Bears – This is for the babies up until they are confident on their feet.  The room is bright and attractive and equipped with toys to stimulate the imagination and to develop co-ordination and gross motor skills.  Activities are based on a child’s first experiences of the world so they can develop an understanding and awareness of themselves and others.  We provide opportunities for the babies to; explore and investigate Treasure Baskets which are full of natural materials and textures that will excite and encourage babies interests; listen to familiar songs, rhymes and finger play; look at flip-flap books to find what hiding; use the soft play area to explore the space around them from different levels and views

The baby room has a designated Nappy Changing area.

Red Bears – This room is for the Toddlers – 2yrs.  The Toddlers are beginning to show curiosity and an awareness of the world around them. The layout of the room provides opportunities for the children to make choices that can involve real challenge while allowing them to move freely between one area of the room to the other. There is a quiet corner, home-corner, construction area and art area.  The children are able to self select equipment from the low-level shelving and toy boxes around the room.  The children have direct access to a large outdoor play area including a sheltered climbing frame and playhouse.

Blue Bears – This room accommodates our 2 – 3 yrs olds – A spacious, bright well equipped room to a high standard with appropriate resources and play equipment for these children who are becoming increasingly independent and showing particular characteristics, preferences and interests.  The room is divided into 5 areas with stimulating activities in each to allow the children to learn through play.

This room has a designated toilet so practitioners can follow the children’s individual toilet training routines.

Green Bears - These children are 3 years old.  Here the children have a more structured day with times set aside for singing, stories and play activities that stimulate language and creative play.

Rainbow Bears – This room is for the pre-school children.  The Room Leader organises the daily routine around the children’s interests and their stage of learning.  The children have access to core provision at all times, which includes, messy and role-play areas, construction area, small world play, mark-making area, number and writing tables, book area, and the computer.  Activities are planned following the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum providing opportunities for the children to free-flow between the indoors and outdoors while making choices to enable them to become independent thinkers and taking responsibility for their own learning.