child is a leading-edge pre-school learning environment, specifically designed to exceed all requirements by the Ministry of Education in terms of education standards, equipment, staff qualifications and teacher/child ratios, monitoring and reporting, safety and security, health and nutrition, climate and environmental responsibilities.

Located in a modern, innovative building at Smales Farm, child encompasses five seperate pre-schools with five seperate outdoor playgrounds. Each pre-school is a stand-alone entity encompassing its own teachers, bathroom, sleep room, programmes, and creative indoor and outdoor areas.

This unique concept allows us to tailor each pre-school’s environment, equipment, teaching resources and programmes to that age group. By maintaining small class sizes and high quality teacher/child ratios, we can ensure close, personal attention between our children and their teachers. Our 3 years 8 months - 4 years 4 months preschool caters for 26 children with four staff which allows for an exceptional teacher/child ration of 1:6.

In this age group we are focussing more in depth on literacy, numeracy and phonics awareness to prepare them for their next steps in to our transition to school classroom. We are encouraging interaction with their peers to help develop and refine their social skills. There are opportunities for them to work both collaboratively and independently.