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Nursery education is about focussing on the development of the individual child and during your child's time in Nursery he/she will experience a great variety of activities based on the six areas of the Curriculum:

•  Personal, Social & Emotional

•  Communication, Language and Literacy

•  Problem Solving, Reasoning & Numeracy

•  Knowledge & Understanding of the World

•  Physical Development

•  Creative Development

Activities offered to the children include:

- sand play	- construction play
- water play	- jigsaws
- painting	- snack and baking
- modelling	- drawing

- role play- stories and	- craft activities
- physical activities (indoor and out)	- board games
- listening activities
- musical activities

Of course when you ask your child the question "What were you doing in Nursery today?" their reply will often be "Only playing" , and this is exactly what they will have been doing!  However there is much more to play than meets the eye. Play is natural to the children and is the way in which they learn. Through play the children learn new skills, develop new interests, encounter new experiences and build on previous knowledge.  In Nursery we aim to provide a secure, caring, happy and structured environment where the children learn through meaningful play using materials and equipment carefully selected by the staff. 

Each of the activities offered to the children provide countless learning experiences for the children, e.g. by seeing their names on paintings and looking at books in the book corner helps to familiarise the children with the printed word and encourage an interest in books.  

The children are preparing themselves by writing by expressing their ideas through drawing and painting, while developing their ability to hold pencils and pens. 

There is preparation for mathematics by sorting, matching, selecting and ordering as they play