What We Do
Fun and learning through play
Our team of dedicated, fully qualified and highly experienced professionals in Early Years Education form the bedrock of All Saints’ Pre-School. But we also recognise that you are your child’s first educators and we welcome parents’ involvement in all aspects of pre-school. Working in partnership with parents helps us to ensure that children’s individual needs are identified and met and that your home-based learning is extended and reinforced.
All Saints’ provides a safe and friendly environment for children to learn and develop in, with a wide range of resources to enable them to explore both their indoor and outdoor environment. We’re particularly proud of our fantastic large, enclosed outside space, which offers opportunities for planting and investigation in addition to our abundance of outdoor toys.
We want children to enjoy a variety of experiences to support their learning and our trips into the local community mean ‘crocodiles’ of All Saints’ pre-schoolers are a familiar sight in Ilkley!
We are Ofsted inspected and therefore follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Guidance, which has a strong focus on developing and learning through play. We also work closely with All Saints’ Primary School and other local primary schools to ensure your child’s transition to school goes smoothly.
All Saints’ Pre-School operates an equal opportunities policy in which every child is valued regardless of sex, faith, religion, skin colour or culture.
Rising 5's Sessions
These sessions are structured for the older range of children, to meet their specific learning and developmental needs. We plan very carefully for the cohort of children who will be going to school the following September. Our well co-ordinated transition process ensures that they are socially and emotionally secure, as this is the foundation of positive learning within a school setting.
Our planning includes:
Wider access to the community through visits to All Saints' Church, Manor House Museum, the park and moors.
Other specialist trips to Darwin Gardens, Otley Courthouse, Booths supermarket and train trips.
A Forest Schools programme in Middleton Woods
An artist in residence
Dedicated PE sessions
Alongside side this we prepare children for school by:
Introducing them to phonics
Exploring numbers in a fun and exciting way i.e. number hunts
Developing their language and communication skills
Organising a visit to school, including lunch
A Typical Day
9:15 - Welcome children to playgroup. All children are greeted at the door where they choose their names and come into pre-school.
9:20 – Registration. Children sit on the carpet and share their news; we have a chat about what they may have done and explain the variety of activities they can choose to do.
9:30 - 11.30 - Inside/outside play. Most of the session is taken up with free-flow play activities. Only in very cold and wet weather do we stay inside. Children can access the outside area whenever they choose.
10:00 - 11:00 - Snack time! Children have a choice of snack, such as fruit and then a piece of toast, bread sticks, rice cakes and lots of other healthy options.
11:50 - The children come together again either to sing, have music time, puppet shows, music and movement or mini gym.
12.05 - Story time.
12:15 - Home time! Children are reunited with their parents when their names are called out. Works of art are picked up, goodbyes are said, and another exciting and fun day here at pre-school comes to an end!
