OuR ROOMS
3 months - 2 Year
We provide a home from home setting for up to 12 babies, within a warm and caring environment.
2 - 3 YEARS
We offer an large open space, incorporating the curiosity approach for children to experience a wide variety of activities and learning opportunities.
Pre-school
We offer an large open space, incorporating the curiosity approach for children to experience a wide variety of activities and learning opportunities.
we create a wide variety of activities following the children's natural interest's and ensuring no learning opportunity is missed.
Child led learning
Outdoor Play
Natures Nursery Barn promotes the curiosity approach which helps children reconnect with the outdoors. Instead of viewing the classroom and the outdoors as two separate spaces, learning flows seamlessly between them.
Nature is also brought inside, whether this is using natural resources at the playdough or water station, or plants throughout the classroom setting. It’s important for a child’s mental health that they are exposed to natural surroundings. This creates a positive environment and also adds to the sense of peace and tranquility.
Curiosity approach settings inspire children to have a genuine love for the outdoors and to feel excited about discovering more. This pedagogy is centered on children having respect for the outside world and for those who share it.
This concept is also supported by using natural resources by using items which would otherwise have been discarded. There is no need to keep buying more plastic toys when there are endless opportunities to be had using existing materials.
In turn, this teaches children about the need to upcycle which is an important life lesson outside of an educational setting.
Imaginative Play
As children are using objects with no fixed identity, they have the freedom to use their creativity and engage in imaginative play.
They can choose what they want the object to do and what it means to them. This might differ from one child to the next, but the main thing is that children are having fun and making decisions for themselves. They are free to make up their own mind without being judged.
This reinforces their innate curiosity and gives children the confidence to develop their own theories of the world. By using their imagination, anything is possible, and their ideas are not restricted by an adult.
It is the responsibility of nursery practitioners to provide these opportunities and create an environment which brings happiness and soul back into the classroom. By doing so, it leads to the development of a child physically, spiritually, and mentally.
Natural Resources
Using resources made from natural materials is good for both the child and the planet. Firstly in terms of sustainability as you’re not using plastic toys. Instead you’re using materials which are readily available from the environment.
Furthermore, these commercial toys are becoming more intelligent and are doing more thinking than our children. They flash, beep, make noises, and ultimately entertain children instead of educating them. This means our children are becoming passive learners rather than active learners as the thinking is already done for them.
Young infants need to grow and develop independently without relying on these digital devices to skip over important stages. For example, to aid physical development, the approach takes inspiration from Pikler. It believes in allowing children to unfold and move freely without the constraints of a baby bouncer.
This enables children to develop at their own pace instead of jumping over key developmental milestones which could be detrimental to their balance and coordination in later life.