Activities

Our extra curricular activities take place throughout the week in both nurseries with the children taking part in sports, Spanish, adventure walks, dance, ballet, Hartbeeps, music and drama.

Our “Small Sports Club” coach, teaches twice a week at both nurseries where the children participate in rugby, basketball, football, tennis and kwik cricket sessions in our garden (weather permitting of course - on rainy days, sessions take place indoors). The sessions are carefully planned to be age specific and covers 3 areas; motor skill development, specific sport skills development and educational activities and games using numbers, letters, shapes and colours. Each of the sessions enable the children to learn and progress while exercising and of course have fun! The sessions also help to build children’s confidence and teach them how to participate in team sports. 

Spanish lessons take place one a week at each nursery.  Spanish is taught internally by our in house Spanish nursery teachers whom are all native speakers. Each session introduces new words through games and songs, helping them the children to build confidence, develop their language and communication skills and have fun whilst learning. The sessions are all 30 minutes long and are for the main school children.  

All learning for children should be an adventure and here at Noddy’s we understand that it is beneficial for children to experience those learning adventures in the real world and beyond the confines of the classroom. "Adventure Learning Walks" at Noddy's provides the children with the opportunity to develop their literacy, maths and writing skills outside of the classroom, combined with some physical activity. For example, we may take the children on environmental print walks, so that they can search for the written words in the world around them, practice their letter recognition on street signs using phonic sounds or when looking at letters on a number plate. There will also be opportunities for children to go on shape hunts, exploring shapes in their environment windows, doors, wheels etc. Visits to places such as Putney Heath, will allow the children to get closer to nature, learning how to problem solve, be more adventurous in their risk taking and enjoy some open-ended learning experiences. Children who take risks in their physical play are more likely to take risks and be bold in their learning in other areas, for example, be brave to make mathematical predications or attempt to spell a new word. 

Dance and ballet are taught weekly by "Holly Mayer Academy of Dance" with qualified teachers from the Royal Academy of Dance. The children are taught to listen to the music whilst learning to skip, jump and dance and hold different poses. These activities help the children to develop their balance, range of movement, and posture along with learning and understanding timing and rhythm. 

For our younger children, those who are still a little too young to participate in the sports and dance activities, we have “Hartbeeps” sessions once a week. The sessions are all set to music and brought to life with puppets and age appropriate sensory props. Our Seahorse, Starfish, Yellow, Blue and Green Rooms go on “trips” to African safaris, into space, have discos in the duck pond and even go diving under the deep blue sea! Each session is developed in line with the Early Years Foundation Stages and are carefully considered to aid your child’s development of fine and gross motor skills, spatial awareness, attention, listening, empathy, language and social skills. 

Music sessions take place for all of our rooms in the nursery. The baby sessions focus on singing and movements along with having the babies use percussion instruments which they can use to make their own music. The older children learn to sing songs, participate in rhymes and rhythm activities and make sounds with percussion instruments which are linked to the topics they are covering in their classrooms. Puppets are also used to stimulate the children. These sessions encourage the children’s creative development and allow the children to express themselves. 

Our pre-school classes have a weekly exciting outdoor education programme known as “KinderGarden” with Alice from Studio Cultivate. Throughout their final year at Noddy’s children will incrementally build layers of learning around practical gardening activities, story telling, drama and art. Through these varied learning mediums the children are able to absorb challenging academic content, expand vocabulary, develop fine motor skills, whilst engendering an appreciation of the living world around them. The classes take place in the playground and run twelve months a year, rain or shine.

All our extra curricula activity teachers are DBS checked and professionally trained.