All-Inclusive activities
Children are naturally curious, questioning, and eager to learn, and to encourage this curiosity the team at Boys & Girls Nursery carefully organise timetables full of different activities every day.
We also ensure that there is a balance between structured play and learning alongside child-led activities, where children can choose what they want to do. One thing is for certain: the more variety there is on offer, the more your child will learn, and the more they will enjoy it!
Each room has areas to enjoy different activities. These include:
- Messy area
- Painting and drawing
- Floor play
- Exploring
- Construction
- Independent play, with jigsaws, books and board games
Children in Pre-School Room enjoy a broader range of more challenging activities as they prepare for school. Structured individual learning plans ensure they are each making strong progress towards the Early Learning Goals alongside planning devised for each child every week to give all children at Boys & Girls the best possible foundation for learning.
As well as providing all the activities you would expect we also offer all-inclusive activities including phonics, music and movement classes and cooking.
We believe these activities should be enjoyed by all children and are therefore provided at no extra cost.
Music & movement
Music and movement sessions offer a fun and interactive physical workout for our Babies right through to our Pre-Schoolers. Bubbles and lights are incorporated so even our youngest babies can join in.
We have weekly visits from Tiny Mites, Jo Jingles and Caterpillar Music for our children to enjoy.
Sports
Our Toddlers and Pre-Schoolers enjoy sports sessions delivered by Sprog Sports. The children enjoy an exciting and varied sports programme covering a whole host of activities. The classes aim to develop children physically, cognitively, and socially through playing sports, and to create a love for sport that gives a platform to a healthy lifestyle for the future.
Phonics classes
Our Phonics sessions open a world of Literacy to children and teach early phonics skills. Our Robot Reg classes include games and activities that teach sound recognition, alliteration and oral blending and segmenting the necessary foundations for reading and writing. The high energy class also includes activities to improve gross and fine motor skills which support a child’s handwriting. Sessions are delivered weekly to our older Pre-Schoolers and the learning is brought back into the room and incorporated into our weekly activities.
Educational visits
Children love learning about the world around them and visits from the Fire Brigade, Police, Vets, School Crossing Patrollers, and other members of the community help them to understand the roles that important people play in our lives. Children also love to learn about different festivals their peers celebrate, and we welcome visitors into nursery to share their traditions with our children.
Children enjoy learning about animals. Through our life-cycle projects and workshops, children start to develop an understanding and empathy for other creatures, finding out what they need to keep them healthy and how to care for them.
Educational walks
All of our children go for regular walks around the local area in closely supervised groups visiting the park, library and shops. Our Pre-Schoolers and older Toddlers use walking rings while our babies can often be seen out and about in our triple buggies.
Cooking
Establishing healthy eating habits in young children is very important. We provide freshly-cooked dishes every single day that provide all the nutrients children need to stay in tip-top condition. We believe that children should also understand how food is prepared and cooked so we introduce all children to the process of cooking different dishes encouraging them all to be hands on during our cooking sessions.
Celebrations
When our children have finished their journey with us at Boys & Girls Nursery and it is time for them to start their new adventure at school, we celebrate our time together with a party! Entertainers come in to deliver a fun filled party for our school leavers to enjoy, and it is a wonderful opportunity for our families to celebrate our time together and the friendships made.
