Pre-school Unit

Our pre-school units provide a broad and balanced curriculum in a positive atmosphere delivered by a professional and experienced team who are fundamental in providing a high standard of care and education. There are opportunities for children to share and form relationships, make choices, to discuss and experiment, to ask questions, to develop essential physical and manipulative skills, to learn through play and planned activities, to communicate and to concentrate and persevere. Our pre-school teams work with small groups of children on specific learning goals. We always operate in excess of the required staff to child ratio of one to eight for three and four year olds.

Our ‘Mulberry Bush Academy’ is an initiative designed specifically for our children in the year before starting school and is dedicated to ensuring that our amazing pre-school children become ‘school-ready’ and prepared for a smooth and confident transition to the next chapter of their education under the supervision of our brilliant Early Years Advisory Teacher and our incredible pre-school teams. 

We also invite the reception teachers from local schools to visit the children within the setting in the summer before they start in the September, and during those summer months we transform the home corner into a school room, to familiarise children with uniform and lunchboxes etc. We work very closely with schools and provide a transition to school report when children leave us. This whole process helps make the move to school less stressful for children and parents alike.