Hormead Hedgehogs

Hormead Hedgehogs (formerly Leapfrogs) received an Outstanding rating from Ofsted for all areas in 2019.
The learning, growth, and care of each child are approached holistically at Hormead Hedgehogs, with an equal emphasis placed on the child's health and well-being as on the seven areas of learning and development.
A high-quality phonics curriculum called Letters and Sounds is available at Hormead Hedgehogs for young children.
Phase One primarily comes within the Early Years Foundation Stage's Communication, Language, and Literacy area of study.
The primary goal of the exercises in Phase One is to teach young children crucial fundamental components of the Letters and Sounds programme, such as oral segmentation and blending of well-known words.
Phase One language acquisition for youngsters is supported by our diverse and rich surroundings.
The final phases of Phase One include oral mixing and segmenting word sounds.
Whilst recognising alliteration (words that begin with the same sound) is important as children develop their ability to tune into speech sounds, the main objective should be segmenting words into their component sounds, and especially blending the component sounds all through a word.
As chances present themselves over the course of our daily activities, as well as during pre-planned adult-led sessions with groups of kids and one child at a time, we explore the sounds in words.
To provide a seamless transition to Phase Two, when graphemephoneme correspondences are taught, Phase One fosters children's interest in letter forms and written words.
We take great satisfaction in our solid parent collaboration and personable approach.
When classes are in session, our committed staff is always ready to talk about your child's development or any worries you may have.
Between the ages of two and five, we have developed a supportive atmosphere that challenges, stimulates, and attends to their needs.
There is no requirement for children to be completely potty trained when entering our setting since we understand that each kid is an individual and develops at their own rate.
We are a privately owned nursery with extended hours, so we can let you utilise your 15 and 30 hours of free nursery education whenever you'd like, from 9 am to 3 pm, Monday through Friday.
You will lessen the amount of transitions your kid goes through throughout their Early Years by deciding to send them to Hormead Hedgehogs for their nursery year.
Of course, if you do choose to send your child on to a different Nursery School, we fully respect that decision and have a number of strategies in place to reduce the impact the transition will have your child and yourselves as a family, including visits to Hormead Hedgehogs by the Nursery School Teacher, Transition Books which include photographs of all of the local School Nurseries and their Nursery staff teams.
Please get in touch with us right away to book a spot if you decide Hormead Hedgehogs will be your child's nursery.