Welcome

At two and a half years, two sessions per week are sufficient. This will be Tuesday and Thursday mornings. We provide a ratio of one adult to four children for these sessions, as required by OfSTED. The curriculum for these sessions has an emphasis on the child feeling comfortable and secure when away from their parent/guardian. The foundation stones of social behaviour are laid down, spending time getting to know each other, interacting, building trust and of course having fun!

When your child is on three sessions a week they will have progressed into the middle group, they will move to Monday Wednesday and Friday mornings. This is when the curriculum starts to place more emphasis on the criteria laid down by OfSTED for the ‘Early Learning Goals’.

For the last three terms of pre school (nursery sessions) children have a total of five sessions per week in the afternoon. We aim to provide an all round and complete balance of experiences in order to ready your child for the next step .... Primary School. As most of our children go on to Knebworth Village School we have close links with them and have regular participation with qualified teachers from the reception classes. Places are limited for nursery sessions and are allocated separately from morning sessions. Please see admission criteria and the back of the prospectus.

Collection of Children
Please do not send people who are strangers to us to collect your child. WE WILL NOT LET THEM GO. Only named people will be able to collect a child. Also please try & pick up children on time.

Parking
There are STILL parents who continue to park in the hostel. If you do not want to park in the road we have permission to use the car park of the Catholic Church.