Welcome to our Pre-school
We are a small Pre-School that can take up to 16 children at each session. It is run by a Committee made up of parents.
Hormead Primary School allow us to use a room and the school hall, we also have our own play safety area and garden.
We believe that enjoyable play is essential to children, as this is the medium through which they learn and develop.
We follow the Birth to Three framework which recognizes the 'holistic' nature of development and learning.
When your child reaches three years of age, we follow the QCA curriculum guidance for the foundation stage. This is continued through until the end of the reception year in Primary school.
We use these guidelines when planning the curriculum and for observing and recording your child's development.
Leapfrogs is an OFSTED inspected Pre-school.
It is organized into six areas of learning:
- Personal, social and emotional development.
- Communication, language and literacy.
- Mathematical development.
- Knowledge and understanding of the world.
- Physical development.
- Creative development.
- Painting, drawing, colouring.
- Computer games.
- Cooking.
- Cutting and sticking with various materials.
- Construction.
- Role play.
- Musical instruments.
- Stories, singing, rhymes.
- Water play, sand play.
- Obstacle courses.
- Bikes, climbing frames.
- Puzzles.
- Dressing up.
- Dance.
- Gardening.
- Various toys.
- Climbing frame.
- Bikes.
- Sand.
- Water.
- Pop up tents.
- Trampoline.
- Once a week we incorporate (when time allows) a cooking activity, which all the children thoroughly enjoy.
- We also include making sandwiches at snack time which helps with their spreading skills etc.