Pre-Prep

    Pre-prep

    Nursery School to Reception

    The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) at Bryanston Prep

    Our Nursery and Reception classes give the youngest pupils a memorable and positive start to their educational journey.

    Our Nursery is set within the 30-acre school campus and welcomes children from 3 to 4 years old.

    At Bryanston Prep we cherish childhood, and we have created a Nursery curriculum full of curiosity, creativity, challenge and most importantly happiness! The Nursery children not only benefit from their own enclosed adventure playground, but they actively use the 30-acre site each day for further discovery, play and exploration.

    Nursery School Children

    Our day

    The Nursery school day starts each morning in our highly impressive Forest School setting where the children are taught by our Forest School Lead and Nursery Teachers. This environment presents regular opportunities for child-led play and ensures that are pupils are immersed in nature with endless opportunities to develop key learning qualities such as resilience, problem solving and risk taking.

    From Nursery, the children also receive expert subject specific teaching from our Heads of Department including sport, music and dance. These early teaching opportunities allow our staff to identify, nurture and celebrate talents and passions in each individual child.

    Reception class

    Boys and girls in the Nursery have daily maths and phonics time with their class teacher. This develops when they move into Reception class, with phonics and maths becoming key lessons, and a central focus of the school day. Children in Reception also read on a daily basis. 

    This starts with their class teacher and picture books, progressing to books with words. Small classes mean our children are supported, challenged and nurtured to be confident individuals who believe in their own abilities.

    Free range

    Our learning is ‘free range’ in the sense that it puts the children’s own interests at the heart of our lessons. At the outset of a termly topic all the children in Nursery and Reception are involved in the planning process, suggesting avenues of investigation and learning through collaborative mind-mapping and sharing of knowledge.

    Through these ‘topic thinking tubs’ staff then plan the children’s learning through exciting activities.