How The Children Are Organised In Nursery

Children who attend Cleator Moor Nursery School attend daily for three hours a day.

The activities and opportunities are exactly the same whether your child attends morning or afternoon. The Nursery can take up to 40 children each session. They are in the care of fully qualified staff. Within each session, the children are divided up into smaller family type groups.

The Groups are presently :
The Dolphins
The Pandas
The Penguins
The Zebras

The main reasons for the small groups are that :
1. It allows the staff to get to know the children in greater detail and build up a relationship with them and their families.
2. It allows the children to feel more secure in a small group and they are able to relate to that member of staff first and meet a small group of children initially.
3. These smaller groups are formed to allow the children to participate in activities in smaller numbers i.e. gym session, snack time, story time.
4. It allows parents to communicate daily with a member of staff if they wish and, therefore, form a closer partnership between home and school
The groups are not made up in any specific order (ie ability, age, primary school choice), but we do try to balance them, where possible, half boys and half girls.

Taken from Ofsted Report 2009:
“Children are exceptionally well supported and nurtured throughout their time in the Nursery.”