A Day at Molly's
A regular routine gives children a sense of security. This is why we ensure each session is properly structured, whilst still leaving enough time for spontaneous activities and plenty of fun!
We offer morning, lunch, afternoon and full day sessions Monday to Thursday, and a morning and lunch session on Fridays.
Our Curriculum
By the time they leave us for ‘big school’, our intent is for most* of our pre-schoolers to…
Be able to recognise and label different emotions, in ourselves and others, and begin to regulate emotions.
Understand how to care for living things such as plants and pets.
Understand and respect people’s similarities and differences.
Understand that different people from around the world celebrate different traditions and festivals.
Make decisions independently about how they want to use open-ended resources and come up with their own ideas for play.
Understand what it means to be a friend.
Enjoy being physical, choosing different ways of moving and be able to manage risk in their play.
Be able to independently care for themselves, including finding an adult if they need help, dressing themselves, using the toilet, pouring themselves a drink.
Enjoy exploring basic mathematical concepts through play, including shape, counting and pattern making.
Enjoy stories - listening to them, telling them and sharing with others.
Recognise and enjoy familiar rhymes, stories and songs.
Demonstrating resilience and begin to show a motivation for learning.
Outdoor Play
Come rain or shine, time outdoors is a hugely valuable part of a child's development and children at Molly's have access to the gardens at both settings. The children can develop their balancing and risk taking skills on the climbing frames and slides, use their imagination to cook delicious meals in the mud kitchen and develop their fine motor skills with chalks and other crafts adapted for outdoors.
We have access to a woodland which enables us to offer forest school experiences and we take the children to a local allotment to encourage the children to learn about how we can grow our own food.
Phonics and Focus Work
Each week a different focus supports the children's interests and develops their vocabulary, as well as enhancing their understanding of the world around them.
Specialist activities are set up to help the children with their transition to primary school and to support in the very early stages of reading, writing and counting.
Lunch
Eating together is a great opportunity for your child to develop their social skills.
A healthy snack of fruit, toast, crumpets, crackers and cheese is also offered to all children free of charge half way through both morning and afternoon sessions. Children are provided with water and milk and have access to fresh filtered water throughout the day.
If you require lunch time care, your child can bring a packed lunch along to our lunch club.
Sharing stories and the book corner
Every session ends with singing and a story.
The children have access to hundreds of books in our cosy book corner. We use puppets, big books and book packs to encourage the children's imaginations and help to develop their story telling skills.