Early Years
CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF EDUCATING THE CHILDREN OF SCARBOROUGH
We were judged to be OUTSTANDING by Ofsted in 2012,
2015 and then again in 2019.
At Childhaven, we are committed to supporting our children develop into resilient, independent life-long learners. We offer a range of high-quality services for children aged 2-4, including nursery sessions and breakfast, lunch and tea-time.
If you would like to arrange a visit or to explore your child's future with us, please contact us.
To visit Childhaven Community Nursery School's website, click here
Stronger Practice Hub
Childhaven Community Nursery School have recently been accredited Yorkshire and Humber Early Years Stronger Practice Hub
- Establishing local networks of settings to share knowledge and effective practice.
- Proactively sharing information and advice on evidence-based approaches – for example through newsletters, blogs and social media.
- Acting as a point of contact for bespoke advice, and signposting to other funded support.
- Working with the EEF to select evidence-based programmes to fund and make available to settings.
Useful Resources
Help for children, parents and families - click the links below for useful educational links
Parent View - give Ofsted your view on your child's school
Ofsted - Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a department of the UK government.
CEOP Internet safety - Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) works across the UK
Oxford Owl - Oxford Owl helps support children’s learning, both at home and at school.
BBC Bitesize - BBC Education Site
Top Marks - Top Marks is an educational website for children, teaching professionals and parents.
Think U Know - Internet Safety for Children and Adults
North Yorkshire Outdoor Learning - North Yorkshire Outdoor Learning Service. Motivational learning in inspirational environment
Tech and Play - Exploring play and creativity in pre-schoolers’ use of apps
BBC Tiny Happy People - Tiny Happy People is here to help you develop your child's language skills
CPD - Courses For Practitioners
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Outdoor Learning In The Revised EYFS
Join us at Childhaven, as we consider how our nursery garden provides opportunities for mathematical learning all year round. We are an outstanding nursery school and we embrace modern practices, with many influencers, including the work of Reggio Emilio, Ferre Laevers well-being and involvement scales, Anna Ephgrave’s In the Moment Planning, the Curiosity Approach, and the work of Greg Bottrill. We fully embrace working outdoors in all weathers. During each day there will be a mix of input / question and answer sessions and also practical observation of the school at work in its everyday wonder. There are three days, one in each term, so that you can see REAL progression over the year, and how we adjust the provision as the year goes on and for the different seasons. There will also be a focus on Mathematical Development on all the of the days, using latest research and recommendations from the EEF
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Experience Days At Childhaven
We are an outstanding local authority maintained nursery school in a beautiful Victorian building in the heart of Scarborough. We are offering practitioners the opportunity to spend the day with us to engage in professional discussion around aspects of practice. Each day will be themed around ‘What makes outstanding?’ and include plenty of time with our wonderful staff and 2-4 year-old children in their everyday life in the school, balanced with opportunities for questions and professional discussion. On request, this day can be themed to include aspects that your team are developing if you want to visit as a larger group.
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Stronger Practice Professional Discussion Groups
Join us to connect with others and discuss popular (and requested) aspects of current practice in a friendly and small group. To gain new ideas, celebrate and share your good practice . To spend quality time away from your own setting to reflect.
Monday 23rd January 2023 1pm - 3pm Using outdoors in the Winter - how do we offer opportunities in all weathers? How do we manage freeflow to outdoors?
Monday 27th February 1pm - 3pm Story telling - how do we use props and loose parts? When do we offer adult led sessions? How do we encourage child led story telling?
Monday 27th March 1pm-3pm In the Moment Planning - how do we organise this in our settings? Where are we on our journeys?
Each meeting will be an informal and friendly time to share practice and learn from each other. It may also be possible to see practice in action at Childhaven to support discussion.
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Planning In The Moment With Anna Ephgrave Ages 2-4 Years
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Planning In The Moment With Anna Ephgrave EYFS - Year 1
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Bespoke Support
We offer bespoke support to Early Years Settings. If this is something that your setting requires, please do not hestiate to contact us.
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Experience Days At Childhaven Community Nursery School
FREE to Opportunity Area schools and settings working with 2-4 year olds. £150 p/p or £500 for groups of 5 per setting if you are outside the Scarborough area
Please contact us to arrange a date and time to suit you.
Kathryn Firth is the Headteacher at Childhaven Nursery School
The outstanding Nursery School in the heart of Scarborough is a well-known centre of excellence and has a long history of being involved in professional development of practitioners and students.
Kathryn also works for the DfE as an Early Years Expert as part of the COVID recovery programme and also for NYCC as a consultant Headteacher supporting PVI settings.
