Sara Nursery

We have a range of both qualified and experienced staff. Staff who are not suitably qualified but have experience working in professional settings receive in-house training on the mandatory requirements of what a child practitioner needs to know to work within the childcare profession.

We have a range of both qualified and experienced staff. Staff who are not suitably qualified but have experience working in professional settings receive in-house training on the mandatory requirements of what a child practitioner needs to know to work within the childcare profession.

Here, children are encouraged to realize the significance and benefits of playing, working and co-operating with each other and adults. Development of confidence and greater independence is promoted. The children also have the opportunity to bring in an item of choice from home to discuss with the rest of the group at circle time. This is called ‘Show and Tell’.

Children are encouraged to recognize the number names and numerals up to ten through counting games, song matching and sorting well as imaginative play. Children are also taught about shape recognition and measurements through play and investigative activities. These experiences help children to use mathematical language and skills in everyday play.

In this area, understanding and other skills are developed to help children make sense of the world around them. Also, the nursery environment and planned activities help to stimulate the usual inquisitiveness in children and encourage more constructive investigation of both the natural and man-made worlds. Cultural awareness is taught through activities about festivals, countries around the world, stories and role-play.

The children will be able to explore sound, colour and texture, and shape, form and space, in two and three dimensions, through creative activities involving art, stories, sounds and shakers, and imaginative role-play. A wide range of materials are available as well as costumes, instruments and tools, in different sizes, to help children express their ideas in various ways in response to what they see, hear, touch, smell and feel.