Welcome to Emerald Room, our two year old room where independence flourishes
Emerald room is a dedicated space for children approximately aged 2-3 years old. This area is well furnished with a variety of age-appropriate resources. The room is designed with designated areas to ensure that there are a variety of learning opportunities that promote all areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. This curriculum provides guidance and learning goals on stages of development all the way through to the end of reception year.
Our toddlers utilise all areas of the garden and playground and especially enjoy their time in our self-contained mud kitchen and construction area. Staff provide children with a wide range of outdoor resources and encourage the children to all choose a box of resources that they would like to take outside, encouraging decision making and teamwork skills. The children also have access to a tarmacked playground that is fantastic for riding our bikes, trikes, cars and scooters. Staff regularly risk assess the outside areas with the children to encourage their development into protecting themselves from risks.
The experienced, qualified and long serving staff team are passionate about the care and development of our toddlers and have been chosen to work with this age group because of their knowledge, experience and expertise. Each child is allocated a staff member as a key person. In their role as key person, the staff ensure that routines are followed and provide planned activities that are designed to move your child on to the next stage in their development.
The room provide a ‘cosy corner’ for relaxing, sleeping and looking at books, a natural resources area filled with a variety of open-ended resources and heuristic play materials, a hard floored area complete with sensory tray, and a carpeted area for children to explore and play. There is a designated nappy changing and toilet area, where children are supported with toileting or changed, and nappies and wipes are stored.
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Staff record information for parents using our online daily diaries. This includes sleep times, meals, nappy changes and the wonderful activities your child has enjoyed doing throughout the day. This information is shared with parents on collection and a copy of the diary can be accessed using the Blossom app.
We believe it is important to support your child as an individual and therefore our room routines are not rigid, but instead flexible and reactive. This means every day is different and ensures each child receives the same opportunities for learning, play and exploration.
All children have a picture labelled drinks bottle this is to help encourage them to recognise themselves as individual and begin to recognise their names, letters and sounds.
Experienced staff will use their expert knowledge to support your child and ensure they settle well into nursery life from the beginning. The time this takes will be quite different for each individual child, however staff will regularly engage with parents to encourage links between home and nursery that create familiarity for your child.
Before your child starts at nursery we provide settling in sessions. These ensure each child becomes familiar with the environment and the staff, in particular their key person. During this time, we will discuss routines, likes and dislikes and provide support for each family during this transition.