Originally built around the Birth to Three Framework and the ‘Every Child Matters’ agenda, the Nursery curriculum provides high quality learning experiences for all children. The Nursery and Kindergarten curriculum comprises a number of key aims:

• To build relationships with adults and peers.
• To learn to socialise and share.
• To encourage greater independence.
• To learn through play.
• To develop speaking and listening skills.
• To improve gross and fine motor skills.
• To improve concentration.
• Above all – to have fun and to be happy.

Even our youngest children benefit from the facilities of the wider school. Supervised walks around the West House Nature Reserve allow children to experience many sights and sounds for the first time as they begin to explore the world around them. The school sports hall – ‘Duce Hall’ – provides the venue for soft play sessions and an introduction to playing and sharing.
West House Nursery endeavours to form effective and meaningful partnerships with parents from the outset to ensure that each child learns successfully at this vital stage of development.
The process is initiated before children join the Nursery with parents being invited to bring their children to at least one ‘taster’ session, during which children can play and parents can observe and ask questions of the staff.
 
After children have started at West House Nursery, the partnership is developed further through daily contact. Staff are available at the start and end of each day on an informal basis and parents are encouraged to collect children from the classroom.
 
Two formal Parents’ Evenings are held during the year and written reports are forwarded on three occasions – at the end of each school term.