Strawberry Room

Strawberry class is based in one of the external rooms on the ground floor and is a spacious, bright and colourful classroom. At the start of the academic year children are aged approximately eighteen months to two years and on average we cater for twenty children on a daily basis. We work in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum and base all our learning experiences very much on the individual child and their areas of interest.

Children can explore our daily activities which are planned in conjunction with one of our topic or themes. We have covered a variety of themes throughout the year including Under the Sea, Shapes and Colours and Transport.

Our theme on Occupations was very successful. The children really enjoyed learning about different jobs people do, for example teachers, the emergency services, postal workers and hairdressers. We linked our learning aims through activities such as art and crafts, small world toys, story time and the home corner, where we had a supermarket, a hairdresser’s salon and even an estate agency. Parental participation is always welcomed and this year a parent who is a vet came to visit us with equipment, storybook and a real puppy.

We understand the overall needs of the children in our class and we work very much in partnership with parents to meet your child’s daily sleep and dietary needs also.