Welcome to Apple room, our pre-school, set across two amazing spaces.
The main room is housed on the ground floor of the main building, providing free-flow access out into the enclosed large, all weather playground. This area is great from riding bikes, trikes, cars, and scooters as well as exploring large scale loose parts, water walls and ball games.
The children also have access to our one-acre orchard where they can explore the mud kitchen, enjoy bug hunts, and use our fantastic play trial, supporting their developing gross motor skills.
The orchard is also where you will find The Willow House, our outdoor classroom, used exclusively by the pre-school children.
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- The Willow House
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- The mud kitchen
Both areas provide a rich and well-resourced learning environment, full of creative and natural materials and resources, enabling the children to express themselves as individuals and explore the world around them with confidence and curiosity.
Open ended resources develop and inspire growing imaginations, while the free flow environment provides opportunities for role play, construction, group time, small world play and exploration of math’s and literacy.
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- Helping our gardener plant new trees
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- Making new friends
Staff foster and promote an excitement for learning and encourage children to become successful and happy life-long learners. Children are supported in leading their own play and express and follow their own individual interests.
Learning is both challenging and fun, children are supported as individuals with adult led activities that support their developmental journeys.
Staff build on and encourage social skills, talking, listening, sharing stories and rhymes, and engaging in conversations and discussions as the children play.
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- Fire engine visit
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- The air ambulance landing in the park
Children take part in physical play, focusing on the development of gross motor skills, listening and attention and following instructions, there are opportunities for cooking and helping Mark our gardener in our wonderful vegetable garden.
Children are well prepared for the next stage in their learning journeys with a focus on school readiness at the heart of everything we do. We have great links with local schools feeding into Verwood 1st, Hillside and Trinity schools in Verwood as well as St. Mary’s in West Moors, Oakhurst in Ferndown, Three-Legged Cross, Parley, St James Gaunts Common, Wimborne and Ringwood schools.
We are so proud of our wonderful new pre-school. If you’d like to know about the sessions we provide, please get in touch.
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- Bug hunts in the orchard
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- Painting outside in the sunshine