Hello, welcome to the Woodcroft blog.

Finally, after reading lots of other school and early years blogs and itching to write my own, I seem to have managed to get this blog up and running with the invaluable support from one of our expert governors, without whose help I couldn't have done it, so thank you so much Hannah! I aim to blog about once a month. I will write about an aspect of a typical day at Woodcroft and will also write about special events as they occur.

So to tell you a little bit about us...

Woodcroft Nursery School is a stand alone maintained school, one of two in the local area we are the only two in the whole of Essex. We have three rooms of 52 children each [each child has 15 hours split into five sessions which can be accessed in a pattern to suit the needs of parents and children] and each room has a qualified teacher, nursery nurse and special needs support assistant so we really lucky. We operate a free flow system where the children can access two of the rooms and the garden during the main session and then each room has their own group and snack time. We also have a rolling snack available during free flow.

We are very lucky to have a team of dedicated staff who are passionate about providing the best possible care and education for these young children. We are always looking to improve our practice and look forward which is why I think these blogs are so useful as professionals get to see what lovely ideas are going on elsewhere and also share some of their own.