Croft Corner Forest School Nursery

Forest School Sessions: Forest school sessions provide pre-school children with opportunities to learn about the world around us.

Activities: They especially like the freedom where their children benefit from indoor and outdoor play and forest school sessions.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff support preschool children to learn how to safely use hammers. They provide children with bottle tops and lollipop sticks to hammer into large pieces of wood.

Communication: Staff work closely with parents and carers to ensure children's individual needs are met from the outset.

Community Building: Parents are extremely happy with the care and learning provided at the nursery.

Programs and Resources: Children with possible special educational needs and/or disabilities are quickly identified. Staff work closely with parents and other professionals to ensure all children, including those with more complex needs, are included, valued, and supported.

Staff Training: Staff help children to learn about their similarities and differences.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Exceptionally skilled pre-school staff encourage children to identify a range of emotions.

Safeguarding Training: The manager and staff have a good knowledge of a wide range of potential indicators of abuse.

Play and Learning Integration: Children are motivated to learn. Due to the skilled staff team, children are encouraged to keep on trying when they encounter difficulties in their play.

Transition to Primary School: They feel this prepares them well for starting school.

Diversity Management: Staff help children to learn about their similarities and differences. This helps children to respect each other as unique individuals.

Child Safety Management: Continual risk assessment by staff ensures all areas inside, outside or at the forest school site, remain safe and secure.

Children's Safety and Security: Parents are extremely happy with the care and learning provided at the nursery.

Teaching Personal Safety: Children's awareness of safety and being healthy is supported through some planned activities.

Happiness and Settling: Children are motivated to learn. Effective role modelling by staff helps children to learn to behave well and to develop positive attitudes to learning.