Both rooms accommodate 24 children each aged between 3 –24 months. The adult-child ratio is 1:3. Both areas operate a ‘free flow’ environment, where children are given the opportunity to move around the room, accessing individual learning areas, including a covered balcony and natural garden outdoors.

Caring reassuring adults make themselves available to be a safe base for children to begin to independently explore and make choices as they play. Every child has its key person as we recognise the importance of attachment. Each key person aims to build a strong parental partnership which allows us to establish shared understanding between home and our setting and tailor routines to children’s individual needs.

Each practitioner engages in playful interactions that are in tune with children’s individual development needs and abilities. The babies are nurtured to fully develop their physical skills and communication to allow them to freely access their environment and express their wants and wishes through emerging language and gestures. We created an environment that promotes sensory exploration, the development of core strength, coordination, and positional awareness. Our team of practitioners takes time to tune in to the messages babies are giving through vocalisations, body language, and gestures. We introduce babies to a wide range of music and action rhymes allowing them to join in and develop their vocabulary. We provide babies with nutritious and healthy balanced menus that value children’s choices whilst we also sensitively encourage them to try new foods.