Our Rooms
Tiny Twinkles: Three Months – approx. 18mnths
Our Tiny Twinkles have their own quiet, homely area and a team of caring, dedicated practitioners. A key person from this team will build a warm relationship with your baby, helping baby to feel settled and secure during the nursery day. The key person will work with you to learn about your baby’s routine and individual needs. You will be given a daily record that tells you about your child’s mealtimes, sleep times and nappy changes. Your baby’s key person will also be able to share information and discuss your child’s development.
In our Tiny Twinkles area there is lots of space for rolling, crawling and learning to walk. This play area is designed to provide a stimulating environment for your child. Some features are; the sensory area (includes heuristic play – this revolves around the use of treasure baskets and encourages babies to discover and learn about their world through sensory motor development whilst providing them with rich mental stimulation; all of which develops their confidence and concentration), ambient lighting and snuggle area. Your child’s key person will work closely with you to develop a nursery routine that meets your wishes. Your baby will be provided with fresh, clean bedding every day. Nappies, formula milk and a change of clothes have to be provided by parents/carers.
At Bright Futures our practitioners will allow your baby to lead activities and games. This means that we are guided by what is interesting and exciting to your baby, as an individual. Bright Futures practitioners will work with your child within the ‘Early Years Foundation Stage’ framework. The framework will be promoted through well planned experiences based upon children’s spontaneous play both indoors and out. Based upon this, practitioners will deliver personalised learning, development and care to help children to get the best possible start in life.
As your child grows in confidence and mobility they will move, which is welcoming and fun to explore. In this play area the equipment and experiences reflect your child’s increased curiosity and their desire to investigate and experiment with ‘messy play’ and ‘sensory’ activities. They will continue to follow the ‘Early Years Foundation Stage’ framework, becoming involved in exciting new experiences of sand, water, dough and finger paints, as well as structured play, pretend play, story time, music and much more!
Mini Meteors: approx. 18mnths – Three Years
The Mini Meteors’ playroom is a bright, stimulating place where your child will grow in confidence as they learn new skills. Within this room your child will be provided with the opportunity to experience a rich language environment to develop their confidence in expressing themselves and to speak and listen in a range of situations.
Group activities such as songs, storytelling and dancing will help your child to enhance their emerging language and social skills. They will also receive plenty of individual praise and encouragement to increase their self-confidence and awareness.
Opportunities for speaking and listening are everywhere and the development and use of communication and language is at the heart of young children’s learning and the ability to communication gives the children the capacity to participate more fully in their society. Our practitioners have been trained to use the communication friendly spaces resources; this focuses on the role of the environment and supports children’s emotional well-being and speaking and listening skills.
At this stage encouragement and support with self-care needs will be given to enhance your child’s independence.
Moon Beams: 2-4 years (funded sessions only)
As your child grows in confidence and mobility they will move into the Moonbeam play area, which is welcoming and fun to explore. In this play area the equipment and experiences reflect your child’s increased curiosity and their desire to investigate and experiment with ‘messy play’ and ‘sensory’ activities. They will continue to follow the ‘Early Years Foundation Stage’ framework, becoming involved in exciting new experiences of sand, water, dough and finger paints, as well as structured play, pretend play, story time, music and much more!
Your child will still have a key person who will help them to settle in and who will talk to you about your child’s day at nursery. All children will be provided with clean, fresh bedding and will be able to rest and sleep during the day in the quiet area of the Moonbeam area.
Shooting Stars: 3-4 years (full day care & funded combined)
Children learn individually and with others through play. We offer our children a play-based curriculum, which meets all the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage and supports all aspects of their learning and development.
It supports their inbuilt curiosity and desire to make sense of the world around them and helps them to discover that learning is interesting and fun. This is vitally important if children are going to remain keen learners for the rest of their lives.
Play in a secure homely environment with high adult/child ratios allows the children to explore, investigate and enjoy the learning experience. We help them to practice and develop their ideas, concepts and skills in a unique and non-threatening way, without fear of failure.
Indoor playrooms
At Bright Futures we provide an excellent physical environment in which your child will feel confident, comfortable and secure. All our Playrooms have been designed individually for children of each age group. Each of the four playrooms has large windows, providing plenty of natural light. Window shades allow us to alter the ambience of a room, or specific areas of a room, according to the needs of our children, the season and the time of day.
If children require sleeps or rest periods they will be provided with clean and fresh bedding in the quiet areas of every room.
All our rooms contain a variety of child-friendly and posture-friendly furniture, equipment and surfaces. There are a wide range of activities, materials and resources specially chosen for promoting and supporting the learning of each specific age group. Playrooms offer continuous provision areas such as a book corner, home corner, role-play, permanent activities, quiet area and space for larger construction and physical activities.
Outdoor Play
All our playrooms have direct access onto an outdoor area that is secure and offer’s a combination of free flow play with a variety of play surfaces. Here your child can have enough space and freedom to explore and be physically active. They will be encouraged to take an interest in the surrounding environments. Our outdoor sections comprise of a playground with safe play rubber surface including a small hut and slide, activity centres, sand and water trays and a wooden gazebo for shade and shelter. Our astro-turfed area allows children to use their imaginations whilst exploring the wooden pirate ship as well as the use of a variety of large ride on toys, bikes and physical education equipment. The garden area provides sensory experiences for children of all ages due to planting herbs, flowers and vegetables in the spring. Mud kitchens and digging areas build on an array of physical activity for children to explore and use their imaginations also. Walks around the vicinity of the nursery allow children to connect with their local and natural environment.
At Bright Futures we are constantly updating our provisions and training for practitioner’s in-order to promote further learning and development through all areas of learning to ensure all children and their families are offered the best possible opportunities within our care.
Sensory Den
We have a portable sensory den that can be used in any room with a wide range of resources from glow sticks and UV scarves to fibre optic lamps and projectors. The sensory den provides the children with the opportunity to explore with their hearing, sight, touch, taste and smell and think creatively and flexibly, solve problems and link ideas in a rich and stimulating environment.