Our Approach
Age Groups
Important Dates
Our Approach
Age Groups
Important Dates
Our Approach
Our Curriculum
All-year-round curriculum and full day care
La Petite Nursery’s all-year-round curriculum in Maida Vale is designed to engage children’s active minds and arouse their curiosity for meaning and understanding. Children are exposed to various experiences to support their inclination towards language, arts and science, mathematics, literacy and other areas of interests with meaningful moments of play and integrated activities.
Experienced teachers support your child
Each child is unique and has his/her own interest and strengths. La Petite Nursery supports children’s every day learning by building their knowledge one step at a time, bringing them closer to achieving their early years’ goals. Our qualified and experienced teachers act as mentors and facilitators, encouraging children to participate, explore, experience, think for themselves and find solutions.
Hands-on experiences
At La Petite Nursery, children learn through action — they need to see, hear, touch, feel and taste. By becoming actors of their experiences, children learn quickly and more efficiently.
Principles of Our Curriculum
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1 . Relationships Are Key
At La Petite Nursery, we believe learning needs to start with confidence. Hence, the very first thing our staff will ensure is to establish a strong connection with your child. Our smooth settling-in process follows your child’s pace and the key person system that we have in place is meant to best support both you and your child.
Your child’s social and emotional development is a priority for us; we believe that nursery is a place for social interactions. This is the very first place where children interact with peers and we will, therefore, encourage your child to actively participate in all group activities. -
2. Play is Our Primary Context of Learning
Playing is how young children engage in learning experiences. We believe that when children make their own choices, interact with others and spend time having fun on their own, they learn much about themselves, their own capabilities and the world around them. At La Petite Nursery, we appreciate the value of play and support your child’s interests, engagement, creativity and self-expression through a balance of child-initiated and teacher-guided activities.” Play is the highest form of research “Albert Einstein
3. Learning is Integrated
Our curriculum offers activities that combine cross-topic/field learning. For example, when baking challot, children are not simply cooking. They are learning about maths (measuring the ingredients, counting them, looking at the numbers on the scale, using positional language, etc.), literacy (as they read and follow the recipe), physical activity (while using their motor skills to knead the dough), science (transformation of the ingredients) cooperation, team work, communication and language , etc. When engaged in an activity or any form of play, teachers are mindful and integrate different subjects to widen the children’s knowledge in a fun and exciting way. This is the beauty of learning through play!
4. A Child is Unique
Our purpose is to ensure your child benefits from the highest standard of education, to prepare him/her to succeed at school and in life. Our staff team is expert in the field, and they will adapt the curriculum to the children’s needs and strengths. We assume each child is unique and make sure our curriculum is tailor-made and adapted to each child.
5.Working With Families
At La Petite Nursery, we believe that a strong connection with families grows from respecting and valuing diverse views, expectation, traditions and culture. Our curriculum celebrates diversity and family.Early Years Foundation Stage
Our curriculum follows the, Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS),which sets the learning goals for children from birth to five years old.Within the EYFS, there are seven areas of development:
PRIME AREAS
SPECIFIC AREAS
PRIME AREAS
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Personal, Social and Emotional development
SPECIFIC AREAS
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding The World
Expressive Arts
The three prime areas reflect the main skills and abilities that children need to develop in order to build confidence and balance the learning towards more specific areas. We track the early goals, and regularly send you feedback on your child’s progress.
You can find further information on the Foundation Years website.
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1 . Relationships Are Key
At La Petite Nursery, we believe learning needs to start with confidence. Hence, the very first thing our staff will ensure is to establish a strong connection with your child. Our smooth settling-in process follows your child’s pace and the key person system that we have in place is meant to best support both you and your child.
Your child’s social and emotional development is a priority for us; we believe that nursery is a place for social interactions. This is the very first place where children interact with peers and we will, therefore, encourage your child to actively participate in all group activities. -
2. Play is Our Primary Context of Learning
Playing is how young children engage in learning experiences. We believe that when children make their own choices, interact with others and spend time having fun on their own, they learn much about themselves, their own capabilities and the world around them. At La Petite Nursery, we appreciate the value of play and support your child’s interests, engagement, creativity and self-expression through a balance of child-initiated and teacher-guided activities.{ Play is the highest form of research }Albert Einstein -
3. Learning is Integrated
Our curriculum offers activities that combine cross-topic/field learning. For example, when baking challot, children are not simply cooking. They are learning about maths (measuring the ingredients, counting them, looking at the numbers on the scale, using positional language, etc.), literacy (as they read and follow the recipe), physical activity (while using their motor skills to knead the dough), science (transformation of the ingredients) cooperation, team work, communication and language , etc. When engaged in an activity or any form of play, teachers are mindful and integrate different subjects to widen the children’s knowledge in a fun and exciting way. This is the beauty of learning through play! -
4. A Child is Unique
Our purpose is to ensure your child benefits from the highest standard of education, to prepare him/her to succeed at school and in life. Our staff team is expert in the field, and they will adapt the curriculum to the children’s needs and strengths. We assume each child is unique and make sure our curriculum is tailor-made and adapted to each child. -
5.Working With Families
At La Petite Nursery, we believe that a strong connection with families grows from respecting and valuing diverse views, expectation, traditions and culture. Our curriculum celebrates diversity and family.
Early Years Foundation Stage
Our curriculum follows the, Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS),
which sets the learning goals for children from birth to five years old.
Within the EYFS, there are seven areas of development:
PRIME AREAS
SPECIFIC AREAS
PRIME AREAS
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Personal, Social and Emotional development
SPECIFIC AREAS
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding The World
Expressive Arts
The three prime areas reflect the main skills and abilities that children need to develop in order to build confidence and balance the learning towards more specific areas. We track the early goals, and regularly send you feedback on your child’s progress.
You can find further information on the Foundation Years website.
Parents’ involvement
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