Curriculum
At Orchidale, we treat children as individuals, recognising each child’s unique learning style and interests.
Our flexible curriculum is child-led, inspiring, creative and meaningful, our team highly qualified and experienced. We are passionate about learning and are determined to give our children the best opportunities possible. In such a warm, nurturing environment, children are happy, confident and ready to learn. We tailor make each child’s learning to suit their needs, and therefore we soon see their independence and love of learning grow. Our nursery is a loving and stimulating community where children are encouraged to respect one another, as well as the world around them.
Our team create invitations of play and provocation to promote a sense of curiosity and wonder
amongst the children –“ we wonder what might happen ?” Prompts early science and
predictions or teamwork and collaboration to achieve a desired outcome.
Outdoor learning is a huge part of nursery curriculum and ethos, we believe that outdoor
learning is essential for all children and we are very lucky to have a large outdoor space at
Orchidale that all our children can access as well as our forest school off site. It allows children
to learn about nature and their environment around them, encouraging independence, curiosity
and risk taking.
We have two minibuses that we use to head on to trips into the community – providing
opportunities to learn about everyday roles and responsibilities such as buying some cooking
ingredients from the shop to take back to the nursery. We like to build a sense of community for
our children and pride ourselves on our regular outings.
We welcome a wide array of visitors that come into the setting, so no day is the same- visits
from professionals such as police, firefighters, teachers and sports coaches as well as animal
encounters.
As part of our ethos we aspire for the children to transition to school from Orchidale as
confident, curious and independent learners ready for their next stage in their early years.
Click the image above to see our school readiness flyer.
