Rangers Kindergarten Natural Play And Learning

Forest School Sessions: Children delight in exploring natural resources, planting, cooking, building dens, singing and reading by the campfire.

Activities: Children have first-class learning opportunities to explore the wealth of resources, equipment and fully benefit from exceptional interactions with staff.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children show outstanding progress across all areas of learning. They are especially confident in talking, expressing ideas and listening to others.

Communication: Staff demonstrate great partnerships with parents to provide children with the best care possible. Parents help staff to plan children's settling-in sessions, menus and daily routines.

Community Building: They are invited to attend different sessions to familiarise themselves with staff and their child's new experiences.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff and managers share and promote the clear ethos and vision for the nursery.

Safeguarding Training: Managers and staff take part in high-quality training programmes to ensure they refresh and develop their safeguarding knowledge and understanding.

Play and Learning Integration: Children take part in projects such as the digging of a pond at the nature reserve. They lead their own risk assessments each day.

Child Safety Management: Managers' and staff's utmost priority is to ensure the safety of children. They risk assess play areas very carefully and supervise children closely at all times.

Nutritional Menu: Staff extend children's learning further by making pesto sauce with them for their lunch, using seasonal greens, herbs and spices. Children plant, harvest, prepare and eat the vegetables, fruit and herbs they grow at the nursery.