Nursery & Pre-School
Funfishers provides Early Years Childcare for children aged 9 months to 5 years in our purpose build baby, toddler, and pre-school room.
Nursery and pre-school is available all year round from Monday to Friday, with the exception of bank holidays, for 51 weeks a year.
Nursery and pre-school is available all year round from Monday to Friday, with the exception of bank holidays, for 51 weeks a year.
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Highly qualified Early Years Practitioners work across the setting to provide an enriching and safe environment for the children to learn and develop through play. Resources are provided to stimulate the children’s interests and enhanced to build knowledge and learning through exploration and enjoyment. We offer funded places for children aged 9 months to 4 years through the City of York Council 2-year-old funding, 3 to 4-year-old government funding, and now including the new 30 hour roll out in 2024 for children aged 9 months upwards. We also offer parents a flexible half termly booking service |
Provision areas are delivered in accordance with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) guidelines and the 7 areas of learning, each area encourages the children to be imaginative, investigate the world around them, engage in discussions and become enthusiastic learners whilst enjoying and achieving through the characteristics of effective learning. All of these opportunities inspire the children’s natural curiosity and supports them to be a unique child.
Little Treasures Baby Room
An enriching environment where children aged 9 months to 2 years learn through play, forming relationships with adults and children, developing language for communication and enhancing physical skills. |
Toddling Turtles Toddler Room
An enriching environment where children aged 2 to 3 years learn and develop through child led play. Provision is delivered according to the interests of the children and enhanced by adult interactions. |
Dazzling Dolphins Preschool Room
A free flow environment promoting child led play using stimulating resources to enhance learning and development, challenge knowledge, skills and support school readiness in a safe and inspiring way. |
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Outside, we provide a stimulating environment with a wide range of resources offering challenging physical learning experiences. Areas of provision encourage the development of skills such as balancing, coordination, gross motor control, exploration and imagination.
Outdoor play is a vital part of our environment which is reinforced through forest school sessions using natural open-ended resources to enhance skills further. Within the forest school site, we have a vegetable plot where the children learn to plant and care for vegetables which we then eat as part of a healthy balanced diet. |
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Each child has a key person who supports and guides them through their journey of learning and development, observing their interests, enhancing their learning and assessing their progress.
From the start of the child’s journey with us, the key person will support them in settling in, helping them to feel safe and secure, and build a relationship with the family to provide continuity of care and stability for the child. Over the time that a child attends the setting, Practitioners contribute towards a learning journey for each individual child. |
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Famly
As a setting, we use a secure, easy-to-use app called Famly for all our communication with parents and carers, keeping you updated on your child’s journey with us. We use Famly to document observations, photographs, videos and assessments of children who access the baby, toddler or pre-school rooms. This is an effective way for us to show you, as parent and carers, what your child is learning whilst at the setting and for you to form strong links with us by adding comments on what you see and sharing your own photos and descriptions of special memories you have made as a family.
As a setting, we use a secure, easy-to-use app called Famly for all our communication with parents and carers, keeping you updated on your child’s journey with us. We use Famly to document observations, photographs, videos and assessments of children who access the baby, toddler or pre-school rooms. This is an effective way for us to show you, as parent and carers, what your child is learning whilst at the setting and for you to form strong links with us by adding comments on what you see and sharing your own photos and descriptions of special memories you have made as a family.
We offer flexible settling in sessions for all children before they begin attending the setting, these can be tailored to suit the individual needs of your child.
