0 - 2 Year Olds
Staff Ratio 1 - 3 Children
For the very young children there is an baby room. This area includes bouncy chairs, play mats, soft toys, rattles and other age appropriate toys. The children are not always limited to this area so will have the chance to use the rest of the nursery for planned activities such as physical play, cooking and craft.
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2 - 3 Year Olds
Staff Ratio 1 - 5 Children
These children are now becoming more inquisitive and begin to enjoy a wider variety of toys including puzzles, cars, construction and role play. They will have the chance to join in with planned physical, cooking and craft activities throughout the session/day.

​3 - 5 Year Olds
Staff Ratio 1 - 8 Children
These children have a wide choice of activities including free play, craft, physical, construction and role play. They also have the opportunity to join in with more structured activities in our Pre-School room i.e. linking letters with sounds, counting and number recognition, pencil and scissor control, and computer skills.

We also have Circle time and talk about the letter sound of the week. We encourage the children to bring in items linked to the letter sound as this helps them to develop their understanding.

Only gentle encouragement will be used to get the children to join in with planned/structured activities, should they not wish to join in there is always the chance for free play.

Throughout the day children of all age groups will get the chance to mix together. We feel this is important as all children learn from each other whatever their age or stage of development.

Early Years Foundation Stage

At Tick Tocks Day Nursery and Pre-School we follow the government framework called the (EYFS) Early Years Foundation Stage. This helps us to support children in their earliest years. The staff carry out general observations on the children and discuss with parents/carers their individual interests, achievements and needs.

​Our aim is to build a strong partnership between home and nursery so that parents, carers, children and nursery, all work together The observations are then used to plan activities that best help your child develop to their own full potential.

There are seven areas of learning and development. All of the areas are inter-connected.

There are three prime areas:
1. Personal, Emotional and Social Development
2. Communication and Language
3. Physical development

There are also four specific areas:
1. Literacy
2. Mathematics
3. Understanding the World
4. Expressive Arts and Design

​You can find more information on the EYFS the the Department for Education and early-education.org.uk.

Parents

We feel it is important to create a good partnership with parents/carers to enable us to provide the best care for your child. We will keep you informed about your child’s progress and time at nursery through verbal contact and regularly update you about topics and activities going on throughout the month with newsletters.

All children attending Tick Tocks have a personal on-line Learning Journey which records photos, observations and comments, in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage, to build up a record of your child’s experiences during their time with us.
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We encourage parents to be involved with this, not only through reading and commenting on our observations, but by uploading their own pictures and comments of their child for us to enjoy too. This partnership creates a ‘warp and weft’ of the tapestry which grows as your child develops into a true keepsake of their early years.
This also allows parents, grandparents and family to join in with a child’s preschool life in a way that wasn’t previously possible. When parents are separated, or one parent working away, it allows both to have equal access to their child’s learning, and means to keep up to date with their child.

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