The Koala room is designed to provide all the comforts our babies need with dedicated sleep and play areas. The room is bright and stimulating which offers ample opportunities to explore sensory resources designed to develop the five senses (Feel, Hear, Smell, Taste & See) and language using descriptive words as rough, smooth, cold and soft.

As children get older we introduce resources such as paint and cornflour to stimulate development of motor skills. Paint is used for mark making and cornflour to explore texture. At Pitta Patta we understand it is not the end produce but the journey that is the key to children’s development.

In the Koala room, we aim to follow your child's home routines. Babies respond well to routine and a change from the home can not only be unsettling for the child but also hard work for the parents as it could affect the child's evening sleep routine, and just as much as the children need sleep we are all to aware parents need their sleep too!

Panda Room (1yr - 1½yrs)

This is a bright, warm, and stimulating environment, which is set out in to different areas designed to enhance your childs learning & development.

Each day the Pandas plan activities and again they are very much about exploring using our senses. We follow the EYFS national curriculum and as with the Koalas; it is about the process of exploring rather than what they produce at the end. To show what we do with the children we take many photos to go on our display boards. This gives the parents the chance to have an insight into what their children have been doing and it shows them exploring and in many cases making a mess!

The under 2's have access to the garden and are encouraged to go out at least twice a day. As well as being able to use the grassed and lower decked area of the garden, the under twos have a separate area which they can use if the older children are out. This area is equipped with bright and stimulating equipment such as a playhouse, sit and ride car plus much more.

Tiger Room (1 1/2 yrs - 2 1/2 yrs)

The children in this room are aged 1 1/2 - 2 1/2 and are now becoming much more social. We have space for up 16 children within this room and again it has been separated in to different areas for the children to explore.

We have a home corner area, which all the children can access. This area is for wonderful for observations as you can really see the children acting out real life scenarios, which they see every day. We encourage the team to use this area when planning as it can be changed in too many different role-play situations. By asking, the children for their ideas of what they would like it to be, you are encouraging them to use their imagination. Children seem to love role-playing hospitals, post office, and shops. 

Here at Pitta Patta we feel that if we are offering a variety of activities in the room daily then the children should not get bored and although we do have our daily planning we are very aware that you always need to be aware of the mood of the children. The team are encouraged to be flexible with their routines. if it is days when the children have lots of energy, the team need to make sure that they have more access to the garden. The team need to set outside out like they would do in their rooms, this means we rotate the activities making sure we are including mathematics, Language and literacy and all other areas of the curriculum.

When the children are getting to age, three we would then start introducing them to the pre-school. We would take them upstairs for story and circle time and then increase the time that they spent there so that they feel comfortable with the new routine.

Giraffe Room (2 1/2 yrs - 5 yrs)

This is our pre-school and we take children up to age five. In our other rooms, we have worked within the EYFS national curriculum but in pre-school we start working at the higher stages of foundation stage. Many children first attend some form of pre-school or nursery soon after their third birthday.

Cick here for curriculum on foundation stage.