Leading nursery school in somerset

We recognise that a key element of a child’s development is guiding them to become more effective communicators. We facilitate an environment rich in both verbal and non-verbal communication.

We encourage the children to initiate discussions and allow thinking time – providing them with the tools that they need to have meaningful conversations. By providing opportunities to listen and communicate, we are developing the child’s understanding of language and giving them the chance to connect to the world around them.

Our Nursery’s safe environment plays a pivotal role in your child’s personal, social and emotional development. At the heart of what we do is our commitment to building strong, trusting relationships with children and families. From the earliest age, we work with children to support their understanding of feelings through role play and real-life experiences.

We help them to regulate their behaviour by also developing their communication skills so that they can make themselves understood. All children are encouraged to try new activities and show independence, resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge, enabling them to build their self-confidence and self-esteem.

The Nursery setting provides a safe and fun environment to develop your child’s movement and handling skills, as well as their health and safe care. Indoors, this includes playing with playdough, clay, water and sand, and expressing themselves with chalk, paint, pencils, felt pens and crayons. Outdoors, our extensive grounds include a large, dedicated playground and woodland area where children can play together, whilst developing their spatial awareness and learning about respecting the personal space of others.

We have many double bikes, pushchairs, buggies, carts, ride-on toys and climbing apparatus that are perfect for developing your child’s balance, coordination and motor skills as well as an abundance of balls for mastering throwing and kicking techniques. Weekly music and dance lessons develop movement control, rhythm and musical ability while our 25m indoor swimming pool provides opportunities to play with toys and floats allowing them to experience water, gain confidence and develop muscle control.

We recognise that the most important aspect in developing literacy skills is fostering a love of reading. We read books to our children throughout every day and encourage even our youngest children to choose books to share with an adult or their friends. As well as stories and books, we use all sorts of fun activities to develop your child’s pre-reading skills.

Oral storytelling, nursery rhymes, poems and finger rhymes encourage listening and interaction to develop concentration, attention and participation skills. To develop your child’s writing skills, we focus on how to hold writing utensils correctly to enable easy letter formation. At the earliest age, this focuses on manipulating both small and large objects, while later in nursery, this includes expressing themselves with pencils, wax crayons, chalk, felt pens and various sizes and shapes of paper, to writing in sand, paint and the air.

Through engaging play and fun activities in the Nursery, which includes songs, number rhymes, stories and counting games, your child will become familiar with and understand numbers, shapes, measures and space and develop mathematical understanding and problem solving. By using everyday objects, we encourage your naturally inquisitive child to explore ordering, matching, sorting and recreating patterns, as well as counting, to broaden their mathematic skills and eventually achieve a high level of numeracy.

Maximising on your child’s natural curiosity to question their surroundings and the world beyond, our activities encourage them to explore, discover, understand and share their findings. We celebrate events from a variety of faiths throughout the year, enabling the children to understand and celebrate differences and similarities within their lives.

Through engaging activities and games, your child will develop a wide understanding of the how, what, why, when and where of things. Our Forest School and beautiful grounds provide practical experience in science and nature at work, from experiencing the changing seasons and various weather conditions to playing with water and sand. Your child will enjoy welly walks and observing the local wildlife in its natural habitat, as well as trips out to local parks, shops and significant places.

Our fun-packed activities, including; art, music, dance, play and stories, will unleash your child’s creativity and imagination as they discover the amazing world of colour, sound, texture, shape and form around them. Our Nursery is all about inspiration and engagement through imaginative play and learning opportunities, which is why you will find the home corner regularly transformed into different environments. These include a veterinary surgery, cafe, hospital, space station and even a beauty salon to stimulate your child’s imagination to the full and encourage interaction with other children through play.

To encourage the exploration of self-expression further, we use a variety of materials and techniques such as drawing, painting, sticking, model-making and printing. As music is a great way for your child to discover the wonders of sound, we actively encourage learning through many forms of music. From listening, movement, performing and improvisation, to songs and music-making.