A day in the life of a…

7:30-9:00
Breakfast and Free Play. Our popular activity is to have our kitchen role play out with real fruit and veg with pots, pans and plates.

9:00-10:00
Sand, Water, Messy and Creative Play. The children love baby dolls with bubbles and flannels in the water, sieves and colanders in the sand this is an easy creative and clean activity is mark making with paint brushes and water on parcel wrap or on the decking/fence panels or flags outside?

10:00-10:15
A fruit or vegetable based snack. Our favourites are mixed berries, cucumber and hummus or cheese and apples.

10:15-10:30
Circle Time. ‘What’s in the bag’ Fill a bag with items linked to nursery rhymes i.e. a sheep or a spider, children then choose an item and think about the song it is linked to then sing it together.

10:30-11:15
Outdoor Play. We love rolling balls and cars down tubes and guttering, banging metal spoons on different materials to make sounds, riding on our ride ons or going out for a walk into the woods and collecting natural materials.

11:15-11:30
Get ready for lunch time. We enjoy taking off our own shoes and putting them away, washing our own hands and faces and choosing our own cutlery to help pour our own drinks.

12:00-13:00/14:00
Nap time.

14:00-15:30
Activities. We usually have a range of activities such as baking, baby massage, music and dancing, parachute games, sensory bags. We also have a rolling snack available.

15:30-16:00
Outdoor play/walk. We usually go for a walk before our tea and enjoy running up and down the hills exploring the woodlands.

16:00-18:00
Free play. We enjoy climbing on the soft play equipment, reading stories, listening to music and playing instruments, building blocks and ICT toys.

7:30-8:30
Breakfast. During breakfast we enjoy playing in our kitchen and setting up our breakfast e.g fruit, veg, and jars. Then we eat our breakfast together sat at the table.

8:30-9:30
Free-Play. Tots love to play with an activity set up on the table, using our outside equipment and reading stories.

9:30-10:00
Snack Time. During snacktime we will eat our favourite fruit or veg.

10:00-11:00
Planned creative / messy activity and Free-flow play. Tots love various activities with shaving foam, rainbow spaghetti and water play.

11:00-11:30
Outdoor Play. We usually go for a walk before our tea and enjoy running up and down the hills and exploring the woodlands.

11:30-12:00
Lunch Time

12:00-13:30
Quiet Time for Tots to sleep or rest. We will dim the lights and put on some mindful music / Zen music.

13:30-14:00
Snack time with a drink of water. Snacks consist or fresh fruit, breadsticks, crackers or rice cakes. We then have the Tots brush their teeth after snacks.

14:00-15:00
Planned creative / messy activity and Free-flow play

15:00-15:30
Outdoor Play. We like to play games and with the equipment in the outdoor area.

15:30-16:15
Teatime. We wash our hands and wash faces; we will help ourselves to our own cutlery and drinks and will help to make our own tea.

16:15-18:00
Free-Flow play with an activity set up on the table and reading stories.

7:30-9:00
Breakfast and Free Play. During free play we enjoy playing in our kitchen with real fruit, veg, tins and jars. We use recycled boxes and planks to make car ramps and tracks.

9:00-10:00
Toddlers love making our own playdough, using spices and herbs to create different scents. We make potions using different shampoos and shower gels in the water tray, we make dinosaur swamps in sand and will do craft activities such as junk modelling or collage making.

10:00-10:15
A fruit or vegetable based snack. Our favourites are sliced apple, cucumber and hummus or melon boats.

10:15-11:15
Outdoor Play/Walk. We enjoy den building, playing in our mud kitchen with real veg, pots and pans. We make obstacle courses using planks and logs and enjoy riding on our ride ons. Whilst on a walk we enjoy treasure hunting in the woodland and making crafts.

11:15-12:00
Lunch time

12:00-13:00/14:00
Nap time.

14:00-15:00
Activities. We usually have a range of activities such as baking, playdough, music and dancing, parachute games, number and shape hunts around the room. We also have rolling snacks available when the children want it.

15:00-15:15
Yoga/Mindful Activity. We will do a yoga routine, practise some happy breathing with bubbles or have a drink of warm milk under a blanket and listen to stories.

15:15-15:45
Outdoor Play/Walk. We usually go for a walk before our tea and enjoy running up and down the hills and exploring the woodlands, playing football and rugby.

15:45-16:30

Teatime. We wash our hands and wash faces; we will help ourselves to our own cutlery and drinks and will help to make our own tea.

16:30-18:00

Free Play. We enjoy using our play equipment, drawing and reading stories.

7:30-9:00
Breakfast and Free Play. We encourage the children to make their own breakfast, help to cut up fruit, butter their own toast.

9:00-10:30
Activities/Free Play. We enjoy investigation activities such as buried magnetic/non magnetic items sand using big magnets, using real tools and hammers to create bug houses.

10:00-10:15
A fruit or vegetable based snack. Our favourites are sliced apple, cucumber and hummus or melon boats.

10:15-11:30
Outdoor Play/Walk. We go on nature hunts looking for specific plants or animals, we build dens outside and enjoy planting and growing activities.

11:30-11:45
Phonics. Phonics games include looking for items around the room that begin with a certain sound.

11:45-12:15
Lunch time

12:15-14:00
Free Play/Activities. We choose our own resources; we enjoy painting and creative activities such as collage making and cutting/junk modelling. We continue to play with playdough and will play in the sand and water trays.

14:00-14:30
Yoga/Mindful Activity. We will do a yoga routine, practise some happy breathing with bubbles or have a drink of warm milk under a blanket and listen to stories.

14:30-15:15
Outdoor Play/Walk. We usually go for a walk before our tea and enjoy running up and down the hills and exploring the woodlands, playing football and rugby.

15:15-16:00
Teatime. We wash our hands and wash faces; we will help ourselves to our own cut-lery and drinks and will help to make our own tea.

16:00-18:00

Free Play. We enjoy using our play equipment, listening to music and reading stories.