The Panthers’ Room

This Panthers room caters for children from 2 years old to 3 and a half. The staff ratio in this room varies depending on the age of the children so is based on 1:5 up to 3 years old and then 1:8 for the over 3’s. This is one of 2 rooms located in the newer part of our building, it has a lovely enclosed garden area which the children can use during the free-flow part of each session. There is an art corner as well as a ‘messy’ area for sand and water play although we often substitute rice, flour, shredded paper, gloop to name a few alternatives! Lots of imaginative play is encouraged with the home corner and the dressing up box. During their time in the Panthers room, our practitioners encourage children to begin building friendships and develop their vocabulary to allow them to ask questions and share their thoughts with both adults and their peers.

Please find more information about our curriculum in The Panthers Room, here: Panther’s Curriculum

Each child has a keyperson who will become their ‘special’ person at nursery, we operate a ‘Buddy’ system just in case your keyperson isn’t in one day.  We work to the EYFS and a ‘Learning Journey’  is produced for each child which charts their development, as part of our ‘Parents’ in Partnership’  we encourage contributions throughout the year by completing ‘At Home I Can’ slips,  parents can look at the Learning Journey at any time, if you want to take it away and comment then you are most welcome but we will ask you to sign it out so that we can keep track of it as it really is quite important, it is then yours to take away with you when it comes to the time for your child to leave the nursery.

(Content updated 12/07/24)