Healthy eating and physical activity are essential for growth and development in childhood.  Young children need to eat five or six times a day.  For help coming up with healthy meal times, check our suggestions for toddlers age 1 to 5.

From this activity, children can learn sorting skills i.e. sorting the ‘caterpillar stones’ by colour, size and number of spots. You can develop this activity further by increasing the number of stones, or coming up with your own creative ideas for the back of the stones.

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets the standards that nurseries and other early year’s providers in England must meet to ensure that children develop and learn well and are kept healthy and safe.

Creativity is an important human characteristic. Young children’s development involves them in fascinating explorations of sound, materials, colours and textures using all their senses.  For children there is nothing more satisfying than being able to express themselves openly, but also their desire to explore which starts at a very young age.

My name is Nicola and I have worked at Rothley Park Kindergarten for 12 months, since becoming a qualified Level 3 nursery practitioner. I chose to work in childcare as I love children and enjoy seeing their progression.