Babies
Our baby room provides a small, homely and welcoming environment for our babies and their families.
The room is designed for babies to develop those important attachments with their key person. Together, we will focus on their personal social and emotional development as well as their communication, language and physical development. Our open plan baby room has been designed to provide lots of space for our Little Buttercups babies to explore, play and develop in a safe nurturing environment. Within the room is a cosy sleep area, a separate changing area and lots of natural daylight.
During your babies’ settling in period your key worker will work closely with you to ensure that your babies’ daily routine and needs are being followed and met.
The room includes several areas: comfy/cosy area, imaginary area, exploratory area and physical play area. Using these areas and our stimulating resources your key worker will follow the early years foundation stage to support your baby to grow and develop through play. Little Buttercup babies also enjoy lots of fresh air with outdoor play and walks around our lovely rural location.
Baby room staff ratio: 1 Adult: 3 children
Tiny Toddlers
Our Tiny Toddler room provides another small, homely and welcoming environment for our young toddlers and their families.
The environment is designed to benefit from lots of natural light giving the children a great view of our outdoor space, whilst they stay warm in our cosy tiny toddler room. Within the room we have a separate sensory area, a cosy den and a changing area.
Tiny Toddlers are able to explore and learn through small world, construction, messy play, mark making, malleable activities, sand and water play and role-play within the room. Your little one will also benefit from lots of fresh air with outdoor play, gardening and walks around our lovely rural setting.
Key workers ‘plan within the moment’ for each child, this ensures we capture your little one’s interests to support their learning and development. There is a good balance of child led and adult led activities in tiny toddlers. This helps to develop your child’s skills and learning whilst focusing on the prime areas of the early year’s foundation stage:
- Personal, social and emotional development
- Communication and language development
- Physical development.
Tiny Toddler room staff ratio: 1 Adult: 3 children
Toddlers
Our Toddler room provides a natural, creative and fun environment for our toddlers to flourish and grow.
This environment enables your child to be imaginative and develop the skill of learning through play. Our toddler room has lots of natural light and direct free flowing access outside so that your child can explore our outdoor learning environment. We also enjoy gardening, walks to the park and investigating our local area.
Toddlers are able to explore and learn through small world, construction, messy play, mark making, malleable activities, sand and water play and role-play within the room. Your child’s key worker will plan within the moment for each child to ensure we capture their interests to support their learning and development. There will be a balance of child led and adult led activities within this room. This helps to develop their skills and learning focusing on the prime areas of the early years foundation stage:
- Personal, social and emotional development
- Communication and language development
- Physical development.
Toddler room staff ratio: 1 Adult: 4 children
Pre-school
Our Pre-school room is designed to inspire your child to learn through play.
It is all about the environment and key worker nurturing your child ready for their future. Our routine and activities support your child to be independent and learn new skills to encourage them to grow to their full potential. Our Pre-school room has lots of natural light and direct free flowing access outside so that all children can explore our outdoor learning environment. We also enjoy planting, gardening, walks to the park and investigating our local area.
Little Buttercups Pre-school children benefit from our rich leaning environment being able to explore and learn through small world, construction, messy play, mark making, malleable activities, sand and water play and role-play within the room. Key workers plan within the moment for each child to ensure we capture their interests to support their learning and development. There is a good balance of child led and adult led activities in Pre-school. These activities help to develop your child’s skills and learning, focusing on all the areas of the early years foundation stage:
- Personal social and emotional development
- Communication and language development
- Physical development.
At Little Buttercups in addition to the prime areas we also focus on the specific areas of the early years foundation stage which are Literacy, mathematics, understanding the world and expressive arts and design.
Pre-school room staff ratio: 1 Adult: 8 children
