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Welcome to our Pre-School
First Steps Pre-School is the oldest Charity, committee led pre-school in the Princes Risborough area, having been registered in 1994. We have a spacious indoor area, and a large grassed outdoor area that we use no matter the weather! We offer a free-flow set-up where children can move freely from one area to another, helping them to grow in independence and ability to make their own choices.
We endeavour to give children the opportunity to initiate and extend their own learning through play and to provide a variety of opportunities to meet each child's needs.
Every morning we carry out a rolling snack, where children are able to come and help themselves to a healthy varied snack, as per our seven-week menu. We see each snack time as a wonderful time to learn and be social.
Everything we do, from continuously developing our curriculum, to the intent behind our planning is based on each individual child's needs and interests. This is all underpinned by the Early Year's Foundations stage. We understand that every child learns differently and that 'one size does not fit all'.
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We promote a healthy lifestyle and offer combinations of fresh fruit and vegetables with a choice of either milk or water at snack time. We offer a lunch club facilty every day where children are encouraged to eat with their peers and enjoy their lunch in a social environment.
We occupy a large, bright and airy room where there is plenty of space for children to move around and explore indoors whilst in session. Access to a secure outside grassed area allows our children the same opportunity to move around outside with a variety of appropriate toys and objects.
Our adult ratio is 1:6 for three to four year olds and 1:4 for two year olds. We believe that it is crucial for children of this age to be actively involved in their own learning and these ratios ensure that there are adults always present to give encouragement, support and praise.
We love to try and get the children outside exploring as much as we can, we offer a minibeast activity which rotates termly to allow all children to experience this outdoor education. The minibeast sessions for the academic year 2022/2023 are below:
Autumn term 2022 – Tuesday AM / Friday AM
Spring term 2023 – Monday PM / Wednesday AM
Summer term 2023 – Thursday PM / Tuesday AM
This gives the children the chance to learn and gain confidence through hands-on learning and an opportunity to get closer to nature.
