The Nest School Preschool Programmes
Equip children with the skills and dispositions for successful learning and for life.
The Nest School
Relationships are at the very heart of early learning and development. Interactions that are respectful, playful, enjoyable, enabling, and rewarding are integral to our values.
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About Play Based Learning
Our indoor and outdoor play-based classroom environments are carefully prepared to provoke the natural engagement and interest of children to explore, think, discover, communicate, play and build relationships. The children’s sense of well-being and belonging is integral to our philosophy, with fun and happiness at the centre of everything we do.
Throughout the morning children flow between indoors and outdoors as they choose and find themselves immersed in imagination, enjoying the magic of our varied play spaces.
The children enjoy strong and engaging relationships with our senior team of highly qualified and experienced teachers, who skilfully follow the emerging interest of the children. In our play-based classrooms children are equipped with the skills and dispositions for successful learning and life.
About Mixed Curriculum Learning at The Nest School
Our mixed curriculum classroom is a fun and happy environment, where children foster a genuine love of learning. Our highly qualified, experienced, and dedicated teachers build a rich, creative, and dynamic curriculum that offers a great choice of play & varied activity for each individual child, every day.
We have the vast range of quality preschool educational materials – which are highly appealing to children. Children make their own choices of activities to engage in including:
- Play (role play, small world play, construction, and messy play)
- Varied choices of real-life practical tasks –using child sized real tools and utensils. We even have a real child sized kitchen in our Robins classroom! Practical life activities allow children to enjoy doing real household tasks such as food preparation, maintaining their environment, cleaning, fixing, caring for themselves and gardening
- Learning all about the world and cultures around them (including subjects such as science, geography, and history)
- Enjoy arts, crafts, music, drama, and physical activity
- Oral and early prewritten language and numeric concepts (using engaging, hands-on age-appropriate materials) are also on offer.
Children become absorbed in these activities, thereby gaining a great sense of pride and satisfaction in what they are doing. This in turn builds their confidence, independence, patience, self-control, and their ability to concentrate and focus.
At The Nest School children learn from experiences as they unfold, in a happy, fun and loving environment. Relationships are at the heart of early learning and development.
Preschool for ECCE aged children
Programme Curriculum Choice
Montessori followed by Play
Mixed Curriculum Learning with Play
Programme Length Choice
5 hr/day
3.5 hr/day
5 hr/day
3.5 hr/day
Montessori followed by Play
Extended Morning 5hr Programme
Up to 3.5 hours each morning in an authentic Montessori environment with highly skilled and internationally experienced teachers.
Followed by 1.5 hours of play based learning in our free flow indoor- outdoor play environments.
08.45-13.45 daily
5 days per week
Montessori followed by Play
Sessional Morning 3.5hr Programme
2.5 hours each morning in an authentic Montessori environment with highly skilled and internationally experienced teachers.
Followed by 1 hours of play based learning in our free flow indoor- outdoor play environments.
08.30-12.00 daily
5 days per week
Mixed Curriculum Learning with Play
Extended Morning 5hr Programme
5 hours of developmentally progressive learning environment with highly qualified and internationally experienced teachers with play at the core in our free flow indoor- outdoor play environments.
08.45-13.45 daily
5 days per week
Mixed Curriculum Learning with Play
Sessional Morning 3.5hr Programme
3.5 hours of developmentally progressive learning environment with highly qualified and internationally experienced teachers with play at the core in our free flow indoor- outdoor play environments.
08.45-12.15 daily
5 days per week
Programme choices:
The majority of our places are for 5 hours per day with a limited number of places for reduced hours. There are various start times available. All of our preschool programmes follow the primary school term. Will also offer some holiday camp weeks.
Time split between Montessori environment & Play environment
The children on this programmed will spend part of the morning in our authentic Montessori environment with highly skilled and experienced teachers. The other half of the time will be spent quality time in our beautiful free flow indoor outdoor play based learning environments.
Part-time programme (5hr/day):
08.30-13.30
Or
09.15-14.15
Mixed Curriculum Learning with Play
This is a developmentally progressive learning environment with highly qualified and skilled teachers who deliver a rich curriculum with play at the core in our free flow indoor- outdoor environments.