A Warm Welcome to Mehria Wonderland Nursery
“Building firm foundations for better futures through holistic learning, where children are happy and fulfilled as a result of experiences packed with awe and wonder ”.
About us
Mehria Wonderland Nursery combines traditional Early Years Education with child centered learning. A team of qualified passionate and dedicated practitioners work together to provide a joyful, stimulating, safe, and nurturing environment, where children can play, explore, and experiment to become confident, inquisitive, and capable learners.
Our Vision
Our ethos is a unique, child-centered philosophy that aims to develop each child holistically. We adopt the multiple intelligence approach that teaches us that every child is intelligent, which we firmly believe, so infused with the Early Years Foundation Stage we ensure to support each child to develop their individual intelligences through play, giving them the confidence to achieve their full potential and enable them to become self-actualised.
Opening times
Monday to Friday- 9am to 3pm
Term time only
Our Values
Throughout every aspect of our practice, we are guided by our HEART Values:
Honesty: We are open and honest in everything we do.
- We want parents/carers to say: “I feel staff are open and upfront therefore I trust them”
- We want our staff to say: “I speak up and feel comfortable admitting if I don’t understand something or I’ve made a mistake”
Equality: We value all people equally and treat them fairly, whilst recognising their individuality.
We parents/carers to say: “I feel that I am seen as a person and treated fairly”
We want our children and staff to say: “I feel that I am listened to and that my views matter”
Accountability: We provide excellent care and ensure the safety and wellbeing of all under our responsibility.
We want parents/carers to say: “I feel comfortable that staff will do the best for my child”
We want our staff to say: “I take pride in the work I do and take responsibility for making a difference everyday”
Respect: We treat everybody the way we would like to be treated.
We want children to recognise: they feel comfortable that staff members have regard for their feelings and wellbeing.
We want our staff to say: “I value every person as an individual and I feel valued”
Teamwork: We work together to make improvements, delivering consistent high quality, safe care.
We want our staff to say: “I support my colleagues and feel engaged in our setting”
Our Aims
-To provide a high-quality nursery experience, where children are at the heart of everything that happens.
-To create a safe, appealing and inspiring nursery environment, where children thrive and learn.
-To build secure and trusting relationships with children and their families, valuing parents as their children’s primary and most important educators.
-To celebrate diversity, appreciating and respecting the things that make each child unique.
-To continuously strive to improve the nursery into the best that it can be.
The conception of an Educational Journey
“Education is our passport to the future. For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today”. (Malcom X)
Teaching at Mehria Wonderland Nursery is based on integrated learning. Through observation, inquiry, exploration and first-hand experiences, children discover the joy of acquiring knowledge and new skills across the seven areas of learning. In this way, the process becomes more meaningful and less of a routine. A structured approach is followed by combining the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum with experiences underpinned by the British values and cultural capital. Children are taught through play, adult-led learning, and are facilitated a variety of engaging and planned activities, whilst allowing for individual attention and the development of each child at their own pace.
The seven areas of learning and development within the EYFS curriculum
Communication and language development involves giving children opportunities to experience a rich language environment; to develop their confidence and skills in expressing themselves, and to speak and listen in a range of situations.
Physical development involves providing opportunities for young children to be active and interactive; and to develop their co-ordination, control, and movement. Children must also be helped to understand the importance of physical activity and to make healthy choices in relation to food.
Personal, social and emotional development involves helping children to develop a positive sense of themselves, and others; to form positive relationships and develop respect for others; to develop social skills and learn how to manage their feelings; to understand appropriate behaviour in groups, and to have confidence in their own abilities.
Literacy development involves encouraging children to link sounds and letters and to begin to read and write. Children must be given access to a wide range of reading materials (books, poems, and other written materials) to ignite their interest.
Mathematics involves providing children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, calculating simple addition and subtraction problems; and to describe shapes, spaces, and measures.
Understanding the world involves guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community through opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology and the environment.
Expressive arts and design involves enabling children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials, as well as providing opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play, and design and technology.
EYFS Overarching Principles
- Every child is a unique child, who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured;
- Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships;
- Children learn and develop well in enabling environments, in which their experiences respond to their individual needs and there is a strong partnership between practitioners and parents or carers;
- Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates.
Development Matters Guide
We use this guide to track children’s progress and development in accordance to the different age bands. We are making this link available for those parents/carers that may be interested to check where they child is currently at and how to support them at home for their next stage of development.
https://www.foundationyears.org.uk/files/2012/03/Development
Keyworker System
At Mehria Wonderland Nursery we have a keyworker system in place, in which every keyworker establishes a professional relationship with their key child and parent/carer. A key person provides individual, tailored care to every child assigned to them. From an early age, it’s important for a child to develop key cognitive skills like confidence and social interaction, and this key person offers nursery children a place where learning can be performed in a settled, safe and trusting way.
HOW DOES THIS HELP YOU AS A PARENT?
As a parent, you want the best for your child. By pairing them with someone who fully understands their learning, development and individual care, it gives you confidence that your child is developing at a healthy rate. But your child isn’t the only who should be building a connection with this person. Your relationship with your child’s key person is just as important. A partnership with the parent ensures there is full transparency in your child’s learning and development, and it helps you to take your child’s development even further at home.
Staffing ratio
For children aged two years, there is one member of staff with every four children.
For children aged three and over, there is one member of staff for every 13 children.
School readiness
Children are supported to work towards achieving their Early Learning Goals in preparation for the next stage of their learning at the age of 4years +.
Throughout their time in nursery children are regularly observed and assessed which is shared with parents using our online learning journal.
We realise that learning opportunities and new experiences happen both at home and at nursery and therefore always encourage parents and carers to contribute to their child’s learning journal, by making comments and giving constructive feedback.
Termly Parents’ Evenings are also arranged so that parents can get first hand feedback on their child’s development. We aim to ensure that when children do start full time schooling at age 4+ they are well ahead of the academic expectations for their age and will continue to forge ahead as they get older.