Welcome to Laxfield Pre-School
Our Ethos
At Laxfield Preschool, we aim to provide a warm but stimulating environment, where children are provided with a range of opportunities to explore, learn and engage. Our inclusive environment enables all children to be celebrated, whilst also promoting a supportive community to build those early foundations of basic life skills to move them through to the next chapters of their lives. As a team, we work hard to ensure that every child in our care has the very best early education, and we are grateful to be a part of it. We provide a learning environment that is appropriate to individual needs, where we reflect and review the effectiveness and adapt where necessary.
The Preschool prides itself in adapting a holistic approach to children’s development, building brilliant parent partnerships and effective working with outside agencies, to ensure children’s emotional, physical and mental wellbeing are at the forefront of our practice.
We understand that encouraging healthy lifestyles if a fundamental part of our practice, and at Laxfield Preschool we strive to introduce children to different physical activities, such as yoga, P.E lessons and accessing the outside area daily. We also explore different foods, tasting and preparing, also discussing our Oral Hygiene. Not only is our physical health recognised, but also we know how important the little minds are in our care, so we ensure we practice techniques and explore those big emotions to support children to navigate through different scenarios.
Laxfield Pre-School is run by warm, nurturing & experienced staff. The Pre-school works towards the Early Years Foundation Stage (2021) curriculum to support each child’s overall development. Within the child’s day, there will be a variety of activities, both indoors & outdoors, which are both adult & child led, always captivating the children’s interests & needs to be used as a foundation for this.
The EYFS (2021) is made up of seven different areas which are the main points of focus when observing & planning which are;
physical development
personal, social & emotional development
communication & language
mathematics
literacy
expressive arts & design
understanding the world
About Us
Our purpose built pre-school offers a large welcoming indoor area, covered outdoor decked area and a grassed playground. These modern facilities support our experienced childcare practitioners to provide children with a variety of learning experiences. These staff are skilled at socially engaging pre-school children, whilst sensitively supporting them throughout the day with a range of indoor and outdoor activities that are tailored to suit the individual needs of each and every child. This provision is within the grounds of All Saints Primary School. We are able to offer a fantastic introduction to learning for young children, comprising morning and afternoon sessions and a lunch club where children learn important eating and social skills.
“I couldn’t be happier with the support that Laxfield Pre-School has given not only my children, but also myself. The staff go above and beyond to create an environment that puts children and their families at ease. Thank you!”
Discoverers room
Our Explorers Room offers Early Education for children aged 18 months to 30months, and Creators room is for 2-3 years, while our Inventors room 3-5 years old. These groups are based in the main room which are divided by a fence. We practice core social skills such as sharing and turn taking as well as providing lot of language opportunities. The children are also exposed to real life play, with elements of loose parts & materials to stimulate imagination & creative play between children. We aim to ensure children are as ready as they can be for the transition to primary school, including group activities, short times on our carpet area & encouraging independence through everyday tasks such as dressing & undressing, toileting & basic hygiene.
Schools
Laxfield Pre-school enjoys excellent relationships with a number of local schools including Laxfield, Stradbroke and Framlingham Primary. Many of our children leave us for our neighbour, Laxfield All Saints, and have the opportunity to take part in transition sessions throughout the school year prior to joining, which allows them to get to know their teacher and their new surroundings.