White Dove Nursery (2016)

We have developed a preschool environment that provides an enriching and nurturing experience, designed to provide numerous opportunities for your child to explore, investigate and learn with us. Our nursery is secure, stimulating, and prepared to promote learning through imaginative, physical and skill play. At White Dove Nursery doors, a world of discovery awaits. Our bright, wide open spaces, and cosy corners encourage the children to get lost in their own world of exploration. Our classrooms are large and bright and designed to enable individual and group choices where children feel a sense of home and are safely challenged to explore, experiment and interact with their own library, light boxes and manipulative materials. We have other special play areas too which give the children multiple choices, space, and control for their preferred activities. Here there are different opportunities for sharing, discovery, and problem solving. We know children love to move around so we have designed an outdoor space that is safe yet provides an element of challenge. The outdoor space evolves as the weekly schedule progresses to keep the children enthralled and stimulated. Our Messy Play Space provides a mud kitchen, water, and sand play for messy play and space to create spontaneous works of art. The White Dove approach to learning is best described as a blended curriculum. That is, we capture the curriculum practices of HighScope and the framework of the EYFS (British Early Years Foundation Stage). These sit on top of our principle philosophy 'The Rights of the Child' and our teaching approach of Reggio Emilia. In essence The White Dove 'blended' curriculum focuses on the child as a 'whole', it is a child-led approach which enables the child to fully benefit from the learning opportunities presented.

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