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BABY

The Baby Room

Treasure Baskets/ Heuristic Play

These provide stimulating opportunities for the sensory exploration for babies. Each treasure basket has a theme which could be metal/ wooden objects, brushes, materials and many more. Each basket is filled with objects that enable your baby to use and develop their own sensed whilst discovering new textures and the way different objects work. Through this exploration your baby is learning about the world around them. Treasure baskets are a fantastic way of supporting your baby and their overall development, we rotate the baskets regularly for the babies.

Sensory Play

The babies get to explore lots of different sensory activities. Sensory exploration helps babies to develop in many ways; -Physical Development- using fine and large gross motor skills, Communication and Language Development, Personal, Social and Emotional development.

Black, White and Red Area

The Black and White area has been created to offer a visually stimulating environment. Babies are able to distinguish these three colours very early in life due to the strong contrasts. There are various different resources available for the babies in this area to explore. OFSTED praised our black and white area “Young children effectively explore their senses”. Research suggests that black on white is the most attracting colour for young babies to see.

Opportunities within the baby room

The babies have free flow access to the different areas within the baby room throughout their session, this will also include outdoor play in the nursery garden or a walk to local places such as park, beach, the boating lake, library and the sensory room. The babies have a home corner for imaginative play, small world area and opportunities to join in with craft activities such as painting and mark making.

Sleeping

Sleep is an important part of your babies routine when it comes to replenishing their energy. In the baby room we promote your babies sleeping routine. Both outdoor and indoor sleeping is incorporated into the daily routine. Our nursery has a sleep policy in place to ensure safer sleeping practices are upheld.

Learning and Development

The baby room follow the birth to 5 matters guidance with child at the centre of practice;  Specifically focusing on the prime areas *Personal, Social and Emotional Development, *Communication and Language Development, *Physical Development. Every baby has an individual assessment in place and Learning Journal-memory book which parents/ carers are able to take home at any time to add photos and comments.

Outdoor Opportunities

The babies have access to the outdoor environment including an outdoor classroom. which they have various areas to explore such as mud kitchen, water play, climbing and balancing equipment and much more. We encourage the children to access the outdoor area in all weathers and dress accordingly in appropriate clothing.