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Our Nursery We have 4 classrooms at ACN: Yellow Room - 6 weeks - 15 months Here we welcome babies and young toddlers from 6 weeks until approximately 15 months. Our experienced staff will work with you to support your baby's routine and development, sharing information via our Family app so you can feel connected to your baby throughout their time at nursery. Your baby will be allocated a key worker who will spend time building a nurturing relationship with your little one. We provide a wide range of activities to stimulate and support babies and young toddler's development; particularly focusing on sensory exploration as they learn to use all their senses to understand the world around them and strengthen communication and language through songs and rhymes. This room has its own feeding area and a quiet sleep area where your baby can sleep peacefully, away from the noise of other children playing. Red Classroom -15 months - 2 years Your child will move from the yellow room to the red room at approximately 15 months old until they are around 2 years old. This room is set out with different areas, such as role play/home corner, story area, messy play area (including sand, water, and paint), construction, and mark making. Our children are free to choose where they would like to play both indoors and outdoors, following their own interests and fascinations. In red room, we focus on children's speech and language, physical and emotional development through talking, singing, creative activities and physically active play. Children are encouraged to join in with a fun, interactive group time in the morning and to participate in calming yoga style exercises in the afternoon to aid their physical development and promote concentration. These activities will support your child's development laying a solid foundation for life-long learning. We will follow your child's sleep routine wherever possible, although most children sleep after lunch, we have a cozy corner for them to snuggle up in at any time during the day. Orange Classroom - 2 - 3 years Your child will move from the red room to the orange room at approximately 2 years of age until they are approximately 3 years old. Here children will learn by playing and exploring, being physically active and through creative and critical thinking both inside and outside. A strong emphasis is placed on developing key communication and language skills, physical dexterity, and emotional regulation. We follow children's interests and provide more experiences in the wider community to help children learn about the world around them. We encourage children to become more independent and focus on their self-help skills such as making choices, potty training, toileting, and following simple instructions. Some children are naturally ready to give up their afternoon nap as they approach 3 years, and our staff use this opportunity to work in small groups to provide activities for all our active children. 3 years + (preschool) Children will move to the blue room at approximately 3 years. Here, we continue to build on your child's independence, self-help skills, self-confidence, and natural curiosity to experiment, explore, test ideas, and solve problems. In addition to the learning your child chooses for themselves we provide activities which extend language and literacy, mathematical and physical skills and focus on their next steps for development. The focus in our pre-school room is on developing strong social skills, independence, and emotional literacy to support the next phase of learning. We also strongly encourage the sharing of experiences from home to nursery and from nursery to home, to reinforce links in your child's learning. Some children will still require a sleep after lunch and will join Orange room when they finish eating for an afternoon nap. When the time arrives for your child to leave us and go on to school, they will be confident, happy, and ready to take this next step. What to expect at ACN Our experienced and well qualified staff will care for and nurture your child, supporting their learning and development across all areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage in partnership with you, as parents and carers. We will provide appropriate age-related activities which are designed to encourage your child's social, emotional, and physical skills, creativity, and all-important communication and listening skills. Of course, your child will just see all this as different ways of playing. Some of the activities your child will take part in include: playing with sand and water, painting, drawing, gluing, and sticking, creating with construction blocks and play dough, moving and dancing to music, listening to stories and reading, doing jigsaws and puzzles, cooking and baking, singing songs and nursery rhymes.