Mealtimes
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All food will be freshly cooked at nursery. Menus have been carefully planned to meet the nutritional requirements of children and guidance from the Children's Food Trust has guided menu planning. Menus will be published in due course.
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Mealtimes are an important time of day for children. Within the baby room the mealtime routine will be dictated by the individual needs of the babies themselves. Some babies may be fed in highchairs whilst others may sit at a table to eat. Some babies may still be bottle fed or feeding mothers may choose to come in to nursery to breast feed.
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Within the toddler room children will eat in their key groups with their key practitioners, the same applies with children in preschool.
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Preschool children will be expected to serve themselves from choices made available on their tables. Staff will support children to make healthy choices, e.g., to choose a balanced meal consisting of carbohydrates, protein and vegetables. Children in the preschool will eat from china plates and drink from glasses at all mealtimes, unless a risk assessments informs us otherwise. Toddlers and babies will use plastic plates and beakers.
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Ofsted registered full day care nursery
Home Learning
A great deal of research has been carried out to explore the importance of providing rich and stimulating learning environments for children, which includes home learning environments. Such research focuses predominantly on how learning environments compliment each other through the partnership arrangements which are developed and nurtured between families and the settings they choose for their children.
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There's nothing out there at present to inform us or guide us on how to deal with or manage enforced home learning. These are going to be challenging times for parents as they try to support, educate, and nurture their children through these extended periods of isolation from family members, friends and those in their community.
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We will do our very best to provide as many activity ideas as possible to help our parents during these challenging and unprecedented times. This page will be updated regularly with resources to support you. Provide feedback if you can to help us develop resources already published and to give ideas for new resources.
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We can't wait for the Mill House Family to be back together again.
Dough Play - IDEAS
Dough, slime and other malleable materials provide great sensory experiences for children.
Mini-Beasts - THEME RESOURCE
Our theme for spring and early summer will be Mini-Beasts. We have provided some resources which may be useful to use at home during this period of lock-down.
Water Play - IDEAS
Children love water play! This booklet will provide ideas on how to provide water play in the home learning environment.
Shop Play - IDEAS
Children love playing in the Mill House role play shop! This resource will support you in developing a shop resource as home. Have fun!
Exciting Home Learning Opportunities - BOOKLET
This fabulous resource has been put together by TTS (educational equipment suppliers) for use by parents who are home educating their children during this lock-down period. Enjoy!
Growing - IDEAS
This booklet provides a range of experiments for children to explore the topic of growing, including growing vegetables from kitchen scraps!
