Cleator Moor Nursery School Aims

1. Provide a caring, stimulating, safe, secure and healthy environment to meet the individual needs of all our children.
2. Encourage children to develop socially, emotionally, physically, intellectually, aesthetically, spiritually and morally; enabling them all to make a positive contribution.
3. Provide a balanced and broadly based curriculum which covers all the six areas of learning through planned, purposeful and enjoyable play to enable all children to achieve.
4. Encourage children’s self-confidence, co-operation and promote independence to develop positive learning skills to enable them to further their education.
5. Develop and extend our services, working in partnership with others to meet the needs of all the children and their families.


How We Achieve The Aims
Staff understanding of child development
Staff training
Children plan, do and review their work
Play and extension of play
Providing first hand experiences
Problem solving
Range of activities provided
Providing learning opportunities
Building on child’s existing knowledge and experience
Adult initiated activities in small and large groups
Planning curriculum appropriate to the needs of each child allowing for progression and development
Recording and assessment of each child’s progress