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Welcome to Duffield Pre-school

We are a pre-school group based in a spacious room leading to a secure outside self-contained garden/play area at Meadows Primary School in Duffield. We welcome children from the term after their second birthday up to school age.

We aim to:

• Provide a relevant and structured curriculum through which the children are able to develop socially, emotionally, intellectually and physically​

• Provide an environment that supports learning through play

• Ensure that all children feel included, valued and secure

• Work in partnership with parents and other professionals to develop every child’s potential

• Add to the life and well-being of our local community, and

• Offer children and their parents a service which promotes equality and values diversity.

We offer

your child:

• A safe, happy and stimulating environment

• A high ratio of adults to children, 1 adult to 4 children for
  under three’s and 1 adult to 8 children for over three’s

• An opportunity to engage in adult-led activities and learn to play as part of a group and independently

• Encouragement to develop skills and attitudes that will be a firm foundation for learning

• Opportunities to be imaginative and creative through art and craft, technology, music and role play
  Encouragement to develop a sense of independence and
  have an awareness of, and appreciate the needs of others

• A Key person who makes sure that what we provide is right for your child’s interests, needs and developmental progress

• An ethos that sees parents as partners helping your child to learn and develop

• A setting in which parents help to shape the services it offers