A teacher-led childcare team
based in a beautiful home setting in woodland
About Puddle Lane
A nursery-like setting with all the advantages of home.
Smaller than a nursery, but larger than most childminding settings, Puddle Lane focusses on quality. We follow a Forest school and Reggio Emilia approach to Early Years Education and are run by highly qualified teachers, and a hand-picked team with a wealth of experience. Puddle Lane is surrounded by and overlooks SSSI protected habitats of heathland and woodland.
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What is Reggio Emilia?
As a Reggio influenced setting, we use a child’s curiosity, and interests as a starting point for creating invitations to play, and enquiry led learning. Children and adults learn and discover together, and we observe and document a child’s stepping stones through their actions or voiced ideas.
As a team, we think about the way we use the environment as a provocation for learning
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What is Forest School?
Originating in Denmark, Udeskole – literally meaning ‘outdoor school’, has made an important contribution to the development of ideas about the holistic nature of children’s learning.
Children who have attended Forest school in their early years have been found to have well developed social communication skills, the ability to work in groups effectively, be willing to try new things, and have confidence and self-esteem.
We run forest school sessions daily in a dedicated private woodland area, which we walk to from the cottage.