The Stables Childcare
At Evolution Childcare in Lower Whitley, we offer beautifully designed rooms equipped with high-quality resources and engaging facilities to inspire learning and support every stage of your child’s development. Each space is thoughtfully created to encourage exploration, creativity, and growth in a safe and nurturing environment.”
Routines are extremely important and during your pre-arranged settling in periods your allocated key worker will ensure that all your baby’s needs are catered for. The key worker will take charge of completing daily routines for your baby and monitoring their development through reports and records. Staff will, at the end of each day; provide you with both a verbal and written account of your child’s day.
Our Baby Room development strategies concentrate on learning through play, using messy activities such as jelly, custard & beans through to ribbons, scarves & feathers. Staff plan appropriate activities for this age range and work with the Early Years Foundation Stage framework (EYFS) on a daily basis. Babies are encouraged to begin verbal and non-verbal communication with both their peers and carers focusing on repetition and imitation, we also introduce a weekly Makaton sign which is taught throughout the younger groups in the nursery to encourage communication.
We also provide the babies with heuristic and sensory opportunities through the use of treasury baskets to engage the baby’s senses and curiosities of everyday objects. Outdoor learning is catered for by regular outings, taken in and around the surrounding countryside, along with use of the nursery garden where we have equipment and activities to stimulate the development of your baby.
Babies are given a nutritious balanced diet which is prepared daily on site by our nursery chef. Younger babies are catered for as they are given puréed fruit/veg before they are introduced to meats and other food substances. (Please refer to our menus for further details). The Stables also has the facilities to store and warm bottles and feeds which are labelled accordingly.
This room is set up to accommodate the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and caters for each child’s individual developmental needs. Using the daily routine, staff plan appropriate activities incorporating a variety of activities which include sand & water, stories, action songs and a wide range of creative and messy play activities.
We have a big emphasis on the children’s fine and gross motor skills which rapidly expand during this age group and our in-depth planning system means we can plan for the children’s individual needs and interests, including lots of physical activities such as dancing, exploration and investigation. All the activities are planned in accordance with the EYFS which is used on a daily basis during observations of the children and the general planning and input to the day. The Toddler room offers a variety of different levels in order to explore, unlike the baby room which provides mainly floor based activities. This allows the Toddlers to investigate their physical development and extend their curiosities in a variety of areas. A role play area is introduced within the Toddler Room to allow the children to start developing their imaginative skills through the use of simple props to begin to make believe.
This room continues to follow the Early Year’s Foundation Stage and children are encouraged to begin looking for and recognising their name and participating in group activities such as stories, singing and directed circle times. Within this room our core rhymes baskets (which are available in every room) play an important part in children’s literacy development as well as their communication, listening and understanding skills. We use these during circle and story times in order for the children to understand the structure of stories as well as encouraging them to repeat familiar phrases. The children have the opportunity to access the activities they would like to join in with throughout the day and the staff are there to help enhance the children’s learning and skills. Through the use of low level displays around the room we start to introduce, numbers, colours, alphabet and shapes using interactive displays for the children to have fun and get involved with. Each child is allocated a key worker who is responsible for their development files and monthly observations. Key workers share information with the parents on a daily basis and at parents evening which we hold twice yearly.
Children begin to build confidence and relationships with both peers and carers, and are also prepared for their move up in to the Reception Room. At this important stage, staff are ready to help support parents with children’s development, liaising carefully on the correct times to implement toilet training and possibly reducing sleep times. As part of this leap into independence, children are encouraged to brush their teeth after meal times and begin to manage their own personal hygiene more effectively, washing faces and hands independently.
Physical play is an important part of the children’s development; they love to do music and movement sessions and have lots of fun in the spacious garden. They also enjoy trips out into the local community.
It is of key importance for children at this stage to begin preparations for school. To assist with this, when the grant funding comes into effect, our Reception class children embark upon the following educational programmes which unlike government preschools which run for only 38 weeks of the year, these run all year round to ensure the children’s knowledge, skills and understanding are at a high level to offer them the best start possible.
These programmes go beyond the norm of any childcare provider and we do this as we are committed to offering the best opportunities and outcomes to each child who attends our nurseries. They are as follows:
- Show and Tell Sessions – Weekly
- PE Sessions – Weekly
- Letters and Sounds Sessions – Weekly
- Skilful Scientists and Mastermind Maths Sessions – Weekly
- Relaxation, Yoga and Movement Sessions – Weekly
Alongside these educational programmes in the Reception Room children are encouraged to develop skills in the 7 areas of learning from the EYFS; the room layout promotes these, having clearly defined areas for the children to make choices. All equipment is kept entirely at their level to ensure the children can develop their independence skills further. Children are supported in developing advanced communication skills, building more complex relationships with their peers, this is promoted through a variety of activities with a daily routine that the children are aware of and follow. Independence skills are developed and children are encouraged to enhance personal hygiene skills as we brush our teeth after meal times and becoming more independent with self-care skills such as hand washing and toileting.
The facilities within the Reception Room are all designed to ensure children have access to as much as possible before they take that big step on to school. A computer enables the children to begin learning about technology, and the children will also embark on a new reading scheme which is a fun way for the children to use pictures in a book to tell a story, this can be a bed time story at home and using the communication book we provide you can write comments about your child’s learning which will help the practitioners to enhance your child’s learning by providing a book that is of relevance to them.
Children have access to plenty of outdoor play times as they develop their physical skills, climbing, balancing and jumping. We also take country walks, observing our beautiful surroundings and enjoy a variety of trips to different locations within the community.
The children have 2 daily outdoor play times with activities available to ensure their learning journey is continued throughout their play. Outdoor play often gives the children further opportunity to build larger constructions and they make good use of the tubes, planks and ropes as they design, join and build.
All facilities within our Reception Room are there to help your child to develop and grow as much as possible before they take their next big step to school whilst working closely with parents, local schools and teachers to make sure your child’s move to school goes as smooth as possible, we follow an outreach programme during this process which is designed to support parents and children during this important transition.
