Early Years

Early Years

Welcome to Barwic Parade Early Years

Nursery 2 to 4 years and Reception Class for 4-5 year olds.

Our Ethos

At Barwic Parade Early Years we put our children at the heart of everything we do. We believe that every child can do amazing things and it’s our job to help make this potential a reality. We are a dedicated, highly skilled, and experienced team of Early Years practitioners who are specifically trained in early childhood development and passionate about providing a safe, nurturing, inclusive and enabling indoor and outdoor learning environment in which our Nursery and Reception children can thrive. We aim to deliver an outstanding education and unlock doors to learning so that every child will be inspired and empowered throughout their Early Years learning journey and beyond.

"Not all classrooms have four walls"

-Steve Whewell

Our all-weather extensive outdoor environment provides all our children with daily open-ended large scale learning opportunities in which they can maximise their imagination and creativity, take appropriate risks, run and use their bodies in many different ways moving around freely and enjoy using 'big, heavy and awkward' resources that are completely different to our indoor provision. Being open to the elements intentionally allows our children to be in nature and experience, observe and notice the changes which every season brings, as well as utilising their full bodies to move our equipment and enjoy fully sensory provision such as sand, water and malleable materials. We have equipment which the children use to develop their gross motor development, coordination and spacial awareness, such as bikes, trikes, scooters and wheelbarrows; as well as sports equipment such as parachutes, hoops, stilts, skipping, balls and rackets. The children choose whether to investigate, manipulate, construct, adapt, build, transport and rearrange large, heavy objects such as wooden planks, cogs, logs, tyres, guttering. Our children love to challenge themselves and engage in our outdoor provision wholeheartedly, working collaboratively as a team and supporting each other at all times.

At Barwic Parade we are very lucky to have our very own wildlife area with a huge sandpit and climbing opportunities. Our Early Years children go to Forest School together every week to enjoy the many and varied additional and different learning opportunities such as clay manipulation; den building and minibeast hunting in this special dedicated area.