Early Years

Working at Wallace Road Nursery School our aim was to motivate groups of children to work collaboratively outdoors and increase opportunities for creative self- expression through developing mark–making skills.

Children arrived one day to find an enormous pair of willow glasses in their garden. Who did they belong to and how did they get there?

The children decided that they belonged to Billy the Giant who had dropped them (and his bag with swimming shorts, suncream and bucket and spade) on his way to the beach.

Over the course of this week long project the children interacted with Billy in numerous ways - he even rang them and sent them a giant postcard! 

We’ve learnt a lot from the project, like how setting scenes to create an atmosphere for collaboration enables children to engage in things that they wouldn’t normally have chosen to do.…One member of staff has really taken the bull by the horns and is continuing where Catalyst left off. The project has given her the confidence to tackle that.
Teacher, Wallace Road Nursery School

Our Creative Partnerships project at The  Willows School in Milton Keynes exploring approaches to encouraging shared reading experiences.  The project started with consulting the children creatively about their learning environments.  We also carried out consultation with the children’s parents and this informed us of where the project needed to be placed.  The children talked at length about the physical environment of the library, that it was unwelcoming, uninspiring and not a place that they liked to be.

We then provided opportunities for the foundation stage children and their parents to participate in a variety of activities in response to an imaginative environment that the parents helped us to create. A range of approaches to story making were used which were disseminated to teaching staff through formal CPD sessions.

Our Tiny sessions are hugely popular with Children's Centres, Nurseries and the Foundation Stage.

Join Tempo Teddy and friends for our fun and participative music sessions.  Enjoy toe tapping, foot stamping, knee knocking, hand clapping, instrument playing, wriggling and jiggling, lycra pulling, toy bouncing, song singing!  A wide variety of resources are used alongside instruments and time and space is given for children to explore sounds, make choices, receive encouragement and develop self-esteem, as well as develop musical concepts.  

With the option of a ‘live’ musician to develop a love of live music and to enhance learning.   Sessions can stand alone for specific age groups or be a lovely ending to any Stay & Play session.

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Join in with our friends for a lively and engaging story time with a difference!  Stories are explored for a number of weeks using music, arts and crafts and physical activities to foster enthusiasm, excitement and a genuine love of reading. Sessions support the development of vocabulary, communication skills and confidence of the children and parents/carers, particularly EAL families.

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As accredited teachers in baby and infant massage we offer sessions either as a group or one to one sessions and can also incorporate massage and relaxation into projects with older children.

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