Puddle Jumpers Nursery

The EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) Development Matters guidance is used to summarise the childrens learning; following the four principals we celebrate the unique child through our strong key person system.
Great care is used to create environments that encourage the childs learning as well as creating opportunities to work closely with parents so that we can understand what is important to each family, enabling us to build a curriculum of learning that is purposeful to you.
Together we will monitor your childs progress, using the seven areas of learning as a guide to summarise development, next steps of learning will then be planned using your childs interests.
Being in a busy city can limit opportunities to connect with nature, we actively seek opportunities for our children to have the freedom to explore outdoors where they can connect with the natural world around them.
The children have opportunities to bug hunt, den build and use nature to learn about risk management.
Every day, we try to take the kids out of the nursery so they may go exploring.
We regularly visit The Ideas Store in Canary Wharf where the children enjoy the story telling sessions that are available each morning.
We enjoy walks around our community giving us the opportunity to discuss local landmarks, the children particularly enjoy visits to the local docks and the river.
Trips to Mudchute Farm Park are always a firm favourite with the children, they get to go on the bus for the short ride to the farm and then enjoy petting and feeding animals before climbing uphill to join in with some fruit picking.
Music lessons are held weekly to introduce the children to a variety of instruments.
Familiar songs are used to engage the children, challenging them to recognise the instruments used in their favourite songs.
Children are uniquely suited to benefit from mindfulness.
If challenging moments arise throughout the day mindfulness is used to re- channel the childrens positive focus.
Part of our daily routine includes yoga, the short session works as a mental break from the busy day.