Rothesay Nursery School

"Play is an essential part of every child's life and vital to the processes of human development. It provides the mechanism for children to explore the world around them and the medium through which skills are developed and practised. It is essential for physical, emotional and spiritual growth, intellectual and educational development and acquiring social and behavioural skills"

National Voluntary Council for Children’s Play Charter

We believe that children learn through outdoor play, which complements and enhances their indoor learning. For this reason, children are able to choose between playing inside and outside for most of the Nursery session.

We aim to:

• Promote good quality, challenging, safe and accessible play for all children.
• Provide well-planned engaging activities outside, similar but different to indoors.
• Provide an environment to extend and improve children’s learning and well-being regardless of the weather.
• Make the most of an environment over which we have little control.
• Expand children’s horizons of what learning can be experienced outside.
• Fulfil the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage outdoors as well as indoors.