The Babies Tweenies and Toddlers

In addition to ensuring that all children will be given every opportunity to learn, rest and play, to be warm and comfortable, and to be fed, babies and very small children need to be changed frequently. We provide nappies as an everyday part of our service. All children like to role play, to copy what mum and dad do in the kitchen or at a workbench, to visit the shops or post a letter. These are part of learning behaviours and part of our learning opportunities.

For fine weather the garden has a range of equipment and surfaces to encourage individual initiatives and games under supervision.
In summer there will be trips to the seaside or to the hills, a visit to the zoo or to a farm. In the winter visits to the cinema or theatre and when it snows sledging. These events will incur a small extra cost to be determined as each opportunity arises.

PRE-SCHOOL Getting set for school

Forbes Children Nursery is especially aware of the need to prepare the older children for school. There will be no high pressure tests just quiet nudges in the right direction. The need to provide high standards of pre-school teaching has been well demonstrated. Not only does this prepare
The Tweenie Room
children for the change from pre-school to formal learning but allows children, who have attended nursery since the early months of their life, different perspectives and goals.The nursery is an approved partner with the local authority to provide ante-preschool and pre-school education under the Government's pre-school initiative.

Our framework is the Scottish Office "A Curriculum Framework for the Children in their Pre-school Year" and "Promoting Learning: Assessing Children's Progress 3 to 5". Implementation of curriculum is given in a leaflet we issue to individual parents. Broader issues to do with education are discussed in a general forum at regular Parents' Nights.
When a child moves onto primary school they will take with them a "Record of Achievement". The nursery does this by providing each child with an initial profile which is then built on as they cover the five curriculum areas of education. These five areas of learning are integrated into the nursery routine. The staff observe and record the following:

Emotional, personal and social development

Communication and language

Expressive and aesthetic development

Knowledge and understanding of the world

Physical development and movement
The Computer Room
Whatever eventually is decided every child who leaves our nursery will be ready for the change from pre-school to the more formal learning of primary school.
Forbes Childrens Nursery, 5 Forbes Road, Edinburgh, EH10 4 EF

Telephone: 0131-229-5511, Fax number: 0131-229-5511