Play & Development

Developing confidence and social skills is key to our mission at St Paul’s. The wide variety of indoor and outdoor play on offer enables the children to acquire a range of new talents and fully explore all kinds of interests.

Our hall features a home corner, a library area, craft tables, a dressing-up cupboard, musical instruments, a ‘Small World’ area as well as games, puzzles and toys. We have a table for maths and literacy and lots of time for singing, making music and cooking.

Outdoors we have a courtyard play area with a play house, large sandpit, water play and a mud kitchen as well as a selection of bikes, tricycles and ride-on toys. Our beautiful grass meadow gives the children plenty of space to run around and the opportunity to be in nature, grow plants and vegetables and experience multi-sensory learning.  We also have slides, small climbing equipment and plenty of PE equipment for games and general play.

Our Typical Routine

9.00am:  Greeting, registration and free play

9.30am:  Play activities indoors and outdoors: exploring, investigating and discovering.

Snack bar is open throughout.  A variety of healthy food and drink is available.

11.40am:  Tidy-up time indoors and outdoors

11.50am: Song and story time

12.00pm:  END of morning session

12:15-1:00pm: Lunch Club - children enjoy their packed lunches

1.00pm-3.00pm: Playtime and learning activities 

3.00pm:  END of afternoon session

Clothing

Clothes should be comfortable, washable, easy-to-change. Please bring named items:

  • A coat, wellies and waterproof trousers

  • A bag is required to hang on your child’s peg, to contain:

  • Slippers or crocs for indoor play

  • A spare set of clothes

  • Hat and gloves as necessary

  • Suncream as necessary