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Artisans Kindergarten
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Artisans Kindergarten
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- Harpenden AL5 5SF
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| The quality of education | Outstanding |
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
| Overall effectiveness at previous inspection | Outstanding |
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Diverse Books and Toys: Children choose confidently from a wide range of exciting and easily accessible activities.
Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: Children challenge themselves to wheel a full barrow over the grassed mounds. Safely cut out pictures of their favourite toys.
Philosophy: The kindergarten's educational ethos is based on the Montessori method.
Activities: Children create a map of their local nature walk, fit pegs into holes in wooden blocks, and count toy vehicles.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children gain word knowledge by repeating rhymes and finishing sentences in well-loved stories.
Communication: Parents unanimously praise the nursery. They appreciate its 'calm' atmosphere and find communication regarding their child's progress 'just right'.
Community Building: Parents of the birthday child are invited to stay for lunch, cooked by the kindergarten's chef.
Programs and Resources: They ensure that all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who speak English as an additional language, make exceptional progress.
Staff Training: Staff are deeply committed to giving children an exceptionally good experience. They plan inspirational activities to build on existing interests and abilities.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: The highly skilled and dedicated staff know when to stand back, or when to offer support.
Safeguarding Training: Staff are extremely well trained and knowledgeable about their roles and responsibilities relating to child protection issues and keeping children safe.
Play and Learning Integration: Children develop mathematical skills through various activities such as counting toy vehicles and sorting them by materials.
Transition to Primary School: Children are very well prepared for school.
Diversity Management: Children learn about other cultures from parents who visit to explain different customs and artefacts.
Child Safety Management: All activities and routines are risk assessed to ensure children are safe.
Children's Safety and Security: Children feel happy, safe and secure.
Teaching Personal Safety: Staff guide children to use cutting equipment safely to make a fruit salad.
Happiness and Settling: Children enter the kindergarten with a spring in their step. They feel happy.
Nutritional Menu: Parents of the birthday child are invited to stay for lunch, cooked by the kindergarten's chef.
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Artisans Kindergarten is a Nursery, Nursery located in Hertfordshire, East of England.
This nursery accepts children from 2-5 years old.
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In Harpenden, Hertfordshire, Artisans is a renowned Montessori kindergarten serving children between the ages of two and five who are pre-school and nursery aged. We are experts in nurturing and raising vivacious kids who are secure in their own identities and see the world as a place where they may make rich discoveries by trying, changing, and exploring. Being able to make decisions that increase our own and others' fulfilment defines responsibility. PLAYFUL - because it makes you happy and instils a variety of abilities.
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Holidays 2023/24
| Holidays | Date |
|---|---|
| Autumn Half Term Holidays | 23rd Oct 2023 - 27th Oct 2023 |
| Winter Holidays | 21st Dec 2023 - 3rd Jan 2024 |
| Spring Half Term Holidays | 19th Feb 2024 - 23rd Feb 2024 |
| Spring Holidays | 29th Mar 2024 - 12th Apr 2024 |
| Summer Half Term Holidays | 27th May 2024 - 31st May 2024 |
| Summer Holidays | 24th Jul 2024 - 30th Aug 2024 |
Terms Dates 2023/24
| Terms | Dates |
|---|---|
| Autumn Term | 1st Sep 2023 - 22nd Oct 2023 |
| Autumn Term-2 | 28th Oct 2023 - 20th Dec 2023 |
| Spring Term | 4th Jan 2024 - 18th Feb 2024 |
| Spring Term-2 | 24th Feb 2024 - 28th Mar 2024 |
| Summer Term | 13th Apr 2024 - 26th May 2024 |
| Summer Term-2 | 1st Jun 2024 - 23rd Jul 2024 |
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