- Open from 8am to 6pm, Mon to Fri
- Farnham Royal, Slough
- 8am to 6pm
- Farnham Royal, Slough
Skip to content Our beautiful home-from-home setting provides excellent childcare in Farnham Royal, Slough
Our beautiful home-from-home setting provides excellent childcare in Farnham Royal, Slough
Little Ducklings was founded in 2019 by two experienced local childminders dedicated to providing high-quality childcare for young children. As the setting grew, an afterschool club and a small nursery were introduced to support children’s development in a safe, nurturing, and homely environment.
Fun cooking sessions where children learn simple and valuable life skills.
Learning the basic skill of cooking, that can be used for the rest of your child’s life, is perhaps the most obvious skill gained. By starting the cooking lessons at a young age, it becomes a skill that they are well adapted to by adulthood.
Stirring, measuring, rolling, squeezing and spreading are just a few of the kitchen tasks that allow young children to develop their fine motor and hand-eye coordination skills.
We have regular visits into our local community.
Active outdoor sessions where children develop physical skills and explore their environment.
Our outdoor secure garden is carefully prepared and planned to ensure all children take part in a wide range of stimulating activities such as climbing, riding and balancing. They will also practise key skills such as navigating uneven surfaces, running safely on their whole foot, throwing and kicking balls and even using tools and materials for a purpose, all part of the statutory framework.
Here at Little Ducklings the children’s learning and development is our priority. Please see below for some detail on what this involves, how we implement it and how it shows through the children’s learning.
Here at Little Ducklings, the environment is carefully prepared, and our curriculum offers a wide variety of rich experiences.
We believe children learn best when they are interested, curious and engaged. This is best achieved through play.
Our approach is committed to child-led learning. We see the children as competent, independent learners who can take a lead on their own learning. The staff are there to support the children by observing, supporting and extending their learning experiences.
We believe the right mix of child undisrupted play and adult-led learning ensures the best outcomes for all children.
It is our intent that all children develop verbally, physically, emotionally and cognitively which values all cultures, communities and people.
Things that are also key to our curriculum is the warm and positive relationships between the staff and children, consistent routine and strong parent partnerships.
We prioritise creating a language rich environment using songs, nursery rhymes, books both factual and fiction and floor books. We also provide a lot of time for quality interactions between adults and between peers.
We understand the importance of parental engagement and we work hard to create strong partnerships between home and nursery.
Parents use the EYlog system to engage in their child’s learning and they are encouraged to share home learning via this system. This is also used as a form of communication
As part of the learning and teaching process, children are assessed in relation to their progress towards the check points in the development matters. These judgements are made on the knowledge of the practitioner by there ongoing observations. These ongoing assessments are used to plan the next steps of learning for the child, and this is then used to prepare/plan the environment/ activities to meet the needs of that child.
Our Environment
Exploring Nature
Curiosity approach and Montessori teaching
Our curriculum and its delivery ensure that children make excellent progress toward their age-related expectations both academically and socially. Having this broad curriculum ensures each child’s needs are being met. It will also ignite children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning and for building their capacity to learn, form relationships and thrive not only in their early years but for life.
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