Sessions

The majority of our sessions are known as open sessions and the age range spreads from 2 years up to those starting school.  They are planned around a broad topic for the half term e.g. ourselves, homes, shapes and colour, animals. Each week a sub-topic is introduced e.g. red or triangle, together with a sound and number of the week.
The children are encouraged to bring in items of interest related to the topic, sound or number of the week. They are discussed at “chat time”. Playtime is outside whenever possible. 
All activities for these sessions are designed to fit in with the government’s Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum which sets out the learning goals children are working towards before starting at school. The areas and aspects of learning cover personal, social and emotional development; communication, language and literacy; mathematical development; knowledge and understanding of the world; physical and creative development.
In the open sessions we maintain an adult to child ratio of 1:8 for over 3s and 1:4 for under 3s.

We are also running a lunch club on Tuesdays and Thursdays which is open to children attending either the morning or afternoon session on these days.

At present we run a total of nine sessions each week, as follows:

From September '09 we are going to allow parents to take-up ad hoc sessions if they are required, for example to allow rising 5s to do a full day before starting school, to allow parents to attend a doctor’s appointment etc. This will be administered by the staff at the pre-school and the charge will be £10/ session.