Hello and welcome to Little Doves Nursery!

Our friendly and inviting Nursery which has many areas in it that allows children to make progress to their next step of their learning. Our areas are set up to support the Early Years Foundation Stage enabling children to make significant developmental progress in a playful environment. We now offer funded and paid places at our nursery. There is a choice of AM, PM and full day sessions. Below is the documentation needed to enquire about a place at Little Doves. There are 2 enquiry forms, one for the paid places and one for the funded places. I have also added a document that allows you to check the criteria for accessing the funded hours for our setting. Either of the forms can be download for you to fill in, then please email it back to Becky at little.doves@whitecote.co.uk

The staff in Little Doves are;

• Becky Gill-Nursery Manager
• Karen Fitzgerald- Nursery Assistant
• Caroline Ashton- Nursery Assistant
• Caron Hawley- Teaching Assistant
• Angie Berg-Teaching Assistant

We have set up the provision to cater for all 7 areas of the EYFS and we use playful interactions to help the children learn and develop. 

The EYFS is split up into these 7 areas; 

The Prime areas are; 

• Personal, social and Emotional, 
• Communication and Language
• Physical Development 

The specific areas are 

• Literacy, 
• Numeracy, 
• Knowledge and Understanding of the World,
• Expressive Arts and Design.

This is our friendly and inviting Nursery which has many areas in it that allows children to make progress to their next step of their learning. Our areas are set up to support the Early Years Foundation Stage enabling children to make significant developmental progress in a playful environment.

What learning looks like in Little Doves.

Welcome to the Spring term!

This is the prettiest of the terms, we love watching our flowers around the garden grow, notice the changes that happen and the different colours of the flowers. We like to water them and look after them, smelling them, especially the lavender. We also start to plant lots of fruit and vegetables ready for us to eat in the summer term. We will investigate ice by looking at arctic animals inside ice, working out how we can get them out, noticing how when the ice melts it forms water in the bottom of the water tray. We will use winter themed mark making activities and fluffy paint snowmen this helps us to practice our fine motor skills by putting different features on the snowman. We will learn about the different types of clothes we need to wear in the winter to keep us warm and be practicing putting our own coats and wellington boots on. Outside we love to jump in puddles, fill and empty watering cans from the drainpipe, we also water the garden, make more puddles to jump in and listen to the sound of the rain on our umbrellas. We are looking forward to tiny tales and tunes who will be coming in to do a session on 'Dear Zoo' for us. 

The books we will be reading are;

• 'Winter.'
• 'Snow Bear'
• 'Owl babies'

Spring learning so far!