At the beginning of each day we have lots of exciting play provocations ready in the room for the children to come in and explore. Throughout the morning the children will have extended opportunities to play and explore. We promote imaginative play through providing the children with natural real life resources within this room. This can allow the children to be creative and personality whilst being brave and taking risks within their play.

Before lunch the children are encouraged to put everything back where it belongs before coming together to sing songs and enjoy stories.

At lunchtime the children can either have our homemade hot lunch (pre booked with the office) which they serve themselves or are welcome to bring in a cold packed lunch.

Our afternoons are filled with more adventures and  exploring, both indoors and out and also snack time.

 Our days are often ended with a little mindfulness or yoga session in order to wind down after a busy day. Currently the room opens at 8am and closes at 5:45pm. Sometimes the Ladybirds will join their friends in the Caterpillar room for the final hour of the day.

Key Person

Your child’s Key Person will spend time getting to know them and their family and will work closely with them throughout their Ladybird journey to observe their play and plan opportunities to extend their learning based on their interests. Their progress and development will be shared with parents through their online learning journeys and our parent consultations.

It is important that parents and nurseries work together. Try to speak to your child’s key person as often as possible about what your child has been doing, what they have enjoyed, what they need to be doing more of and what you can do at home.

Key Areas of learning:

We follow the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage)  which is how the Government and early years professionals describe the time in your child’s life between birth and age 5. 

This is a very important stage as it helps your child get ready for school as well as preparing them for their future learning and successes. From when your child is born up until the age of 5, their early years experience should be happy, active, exciting, fun and secure; and support their development, care and learning needs.

We focus mainly on the 3 Prime areas of learning and development to ensure they are embedded and the characteristic of effective learning:

• Physical Development
• Personal, Social and Emotional
• Communication and language

Once these are embedded we move on to the specific areas:

• Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World & Expressive Arts and Design

Throughout the year we hold stay and play sessions during which we invite families to come and spend a little time with us to enable you to get a real feel for what happens at nursery. The little ladybirds love showing their families what they can achieve and how to create with the large amount of resources available to them.

If your child is joining the Ladybird room from the Caterpillar or Butterfly room, the staff will arrange visits between the two rooms so your child will gradually become familiar with their new key person and the new room ready to move up full time when they are 2 years old. There can also be an opportunity to arrange a visit for you to visit the Ladybird room, meet the new Key Person and also ask any questions you may have.  If your child is new to nursery the staff will work with you to tailor a settling in pattern specific to your child. This may mean parents staying for a few sessions to begin with before gradually increasing the amount of time your child is left.  We want both parents and children to feel safe, secure and happy.