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Muddy Munchkins Forest Nursery
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Muddy Munchkins Forest Nursery
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- West Parley BH22 8SS
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| The quality of education | Good |
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Overall effectiveness at previous inspection | Not Applicable |
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Diverse Books and Toys: Staff ensure they share all relevant information with their linked early years setting. This helps them to meet children's different needs right from the start. All children are happy, secure and show great enthusiasm and positive attitudes towards their learning.
Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: They have established links with another early years setting to offer weekly forest-school sessions.
Philosophy: Staff create a welcoming and stimulating environment. They are passionate about developing children's understanding of the natural world.
Forest School Sessions: They have established links with another early years setting to offer weekly forest-school sessions.
Activities: Children form good friendships and enjoy one another's company, often creating role play activities together.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff take their lead from children's play and spend a good amount of time joining in and guiding their learning. They are passionate about developing children's understanding of the natural world.
Communication: Parents value the daily updates about their child's day and ideas on how to support their children's learning effectively.
Community Building: Parents comment on the 'hard working team'. They describe the positive impact of the curriculum on their children's learning and development.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff create a welcoming and stimulating environment.
Safeguarding Training: Staff complete training and their knowledge of child protection is updated and refreshed regularly.
Play and Learning Integration: Children form good friendships and enjoy one another's company, often creating role play activities together.
Transition to Primary School: Staff promote daily routines to support children's understanding of healthy lifestyles. For example, children know the importance of washing their hands regularly to reduce the spread of germs.
Diversity Management: However, there are less opportunities for children who are learning to speak English as an additional language to hear and practise speaking in both languages, to further build on their communication skills.
Child Safety Management: Staff skilfully teach children about key safety rules and talk about which plants, such as stinging nettles, to avoid when going for a walk.
Children's Safety and Security: All children are happy, secure and show great enthusiasm and positive attitudes towards their learning.
Teaching Personal Safety: Children take risks and learn how to keep themselves safe.
Happiness and Settling: All children are happy, secure and show great enthusiasm and positive attitudes towards their learning.
Nutritional Menu: They eat healthy snacks and lunches, and enjoy physical exercise.
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Muddy Munchkins Forest Nursery is a Nursery, Nursery located in Dorset County, South West.
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For millennia, children have benefited from spending a lot of time outdoors unattended, and now that they are adults, they remember these early experiences with nostalgia.
Indeed, it is well known that such encounters have a good effect, and as adults, we are aware that they influenced many facets of our own growth and wellbeing.
Although children's basic requirements haven't altered, adults' worries about rising traffic and the perceived rise in the risk of kidnapping have caused a change in society's attitudes on kids' access to and usage of the outdoors.
A culture where many kids live sedentary lifestyles with few, if any, possibilities to access outdoor places or benefit from being outside is a result of a rising interest in media equipment like television, videos, and computer games.
The importance of outdoor play and learning for children's health, development, and wellbeing hasn't diminished despite this cultural shift.
It is crucial that early years settings make the most of the time kids spend outside since, for some, it could be their last chance to play freely and safely outside.
The importance of outdoor learning is equivalent to that of indoor learning.
All that kids do, see, hear, or feel outside is included in outdoor learning.
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Indeed, it is well known that such encounters have a good effect, and as adults, we are aware that they influenced many facets of our own growth and wellbeing.
Although children's basic requirements haven't altered, adults' worries about rising traffic and the perceived rise in the risk of kidnapping have caused a change in society's attitudes on kids' access to and usage of the outdoors.
A culture where many kids live sedentary lifestyles with few, if any, possibilities to access outdoor places or benefit from being outside is a result of a rising interest in media equipment like television, videos, and computer games.
The importance of outdoor play and learning for children's health, development, and wellbeing hasn't diminished despite this cultural shift.
It is crucial that early years settings make the most of the time kids spend outside since, for some, it could be their last chance to play freely and safely outside.
The importance of outdoor learning is equivalent to that of indoor learning.
All that kids do, see, hear, or feel outside is included in outdoor learning.
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Holidays 2024/25
| Holidays | Date |
|---|---|
| Autumn Half Term Holidays | 28th Oct 2024 - 1st Nov 2024 |
| Winter Holidays | 23rd Dec 2024 - 3rd Jan 2025 |
| Spring Half Term Holidays | 17th Feb 2025 - 21st Feb 2025 |
| Spring Holidays | 7th Apr 2025 - 21st Apr 2025 |
| Summer Half Term Holidays | 26th May 2025 - 30th May 2025 |
| Summer Holidays | 24th Jul 2025 - 29th Aug 2025 |
Terms Dates 2024/25
| Terms | Dates |
|---|---|
| Autumn Term | 3rd Sep 2024 - 27th Oct 2024 |
| Autumn Term-2 | 2nd Nov 2024 - 22nd Dec 2024 |
| Spring Term | 4th Jan 2025 - 16th Feb 2025 |
| Spring Term-2 | 22nd Feb 2025 - 6th Apr 2025 |
| Summer Term | 22nd Apr 2025 - 25th May 2025 |
| Summer Term-2 | 31st May 2025 - 23rd Jul 2025 |
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