An example of the outstanding equipment at our nursery in Clapham Junction is the Community Playthings Nursery Gym that we have in our Babies & Toddlers Room. This is superb in encouraging physical development, helping our children gain bodily skills such as navigating steps, slides, tunnels, and bridges. This boosts their confidence in their abilities, facilitates independent decision-making, and allows them to develop trial-and-error problem-solving skills. What we love most about this piece of equipment is that it encourages all of these things in the children, whilst they have fun, play and develop their social skills too.
Our outdoor environment is packed with great resources and equipment. We have all manner of facilities for our children to enjoy – a large sandpit where the older children love to imagine and create some masterpieces of sandy architecture, and our younger children enjoy getting to know the texture of this material. We have a Mud Kitchen where hands get dirty and recipes are created, a Growing Patch where fascination is evident at the vegetables forming before the children’s eyes.
There are dens and cosy areas for the children to enjoy relaxing alone or together – reading, chatting or having story time. We also have a large construction area – where we have various sizes of blocks as well as wheels – so the children can build a whole host of different things. Our outdoor environment is brilliantly stimulating.