Nurture Provision Statement
The Nurture provision, provides more specialist support for children aged 2-4 years of age, who at their current stage of development, need higher levels of adult support and a personalised environment in order to flourish and make progress. Children who attend may have more complex long- term learning needs or may require temporary, short -term support.
We are flexible and responsive with provision. We include transitional learning experiences for children in Little Nursery and or Big Nursery. Often children and families are being supported by specialist agencies including speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, educational psychology, communication & autism teams, sensory and physical difficulties teams.
The Nurture provision environment has higher adult to child ratios, dependent on the needs of the children, typically this is 1:2/1:3. The practitioners within the Nurture provision are experienced in working with children to support their social communication, language development and play skills.
The Nurture provision also offers:
- A reduction in noise and fewer distractions due to there being fewer children, which lowers anxieties and increases conditions for learning, interaction and communication.
- Increased access to specific resources to support cognition development through their senses, schemas, cause and effect/trial and error testing.
- Closer observation to keep them safe and support to develop greater independence.
- Individual SEND support plan to support the Graduated Response.
- Intensive early intervention teaching through highly frequent interactions and communication support strategies.
