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Bright Horizons Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon Hospital, Rickmansworth Road, Northwood, HA6 2RN

We welcome you to visit our nursery at your earliest convenience.

Please call 0800 085 4074 (9am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday) or email parentenquiries@brighthorizons.com

Mount Vernon Nursery is situated in a quiet location on the Mount Vernon Hospital site. The nursery offers a wonderful environment with a curriculum planned to ensure that the needs of each individual child are met. Babies and children can grow, learn and become independent and confident, ready for a lifetime of learning and for school.

Staff observe and plan topics that are child initiated as well as adult led thereby ensuring that the children are interested in the topic and willing and happy to learn. Topics are designed to stimulate and promote children’s language development, and to help their understanding of themselves, their environment and others around them. The sensory play that we provide is a valuable part of the children’s day, along with language and literacy, numeracy and science activities. Our aim is for our children to leave nursery with confidence and a love of learning.

The nursery offers:

• Flexible hours from 7.20am to 6pm, Monday to Friday
• a homely environment
• Activities include, Growing Readers, Gardening Club, Cooking, Spanish, Ballet, Daily physical development programme, Ready for School, Wood work and ICT.
• large and secluded gardens – extending children’s learning outdoors
• Bright spacious rooms, with separate changing facilities
• Beautiful Indoor soft play room
• Parking for dropping off and picking up children
• Key pad entry on main door which is changed regularly

During their time at Mount Vernon Nursery children can progress through four main areas:

Baby Room

This self contained area provides dedicated care for babies from 3 months old. Here, they can follow the same comforting routine they would at home, in an environment filled with responsive interactions and language. The learning activities and experiences we offer provide babies with a safe world, with rich opportunities to actively explore and enjoy, to see, hear, feel, touch and move. d an. For quieter times, we provide a peaceful sleeping room. We have a spacious environment with access to all activities including: sensory play, sand and water, art activities, music and movement, plus a cosy area for stories and singing. The babies have access to our soft play area for physical development and and also to our beautiful garden areas.

Toddlers Room 1 and 2

These areas take children from approximately 15 months and are designed to support their rapidly developing skills and physical abilities. We have a cosy area for stories and singing, imaginative play, art and craft, sand and water play available daily and free flow access to a large garden area to extend the children’s learning in the outside environment. Each child needs to develop a sense of autonomy, the sense of being separate, independent self that comes from being treated as an important individual and being allowed opportunities for freedom

Lower School

Lower school‘s learning programme for rising three’s reflects the transitional nature of the child’s third year of life. The programme is designed for each child to make the transition from the sensory-motor world of toddlers to an increasingly social world and the onset of symbolic thinking. Their learning environment is well-planned to allow child-initiated play, small groups and supportive learning that lay down firm foundations for developing positive attitudes and dispositions for learning throughout life. The development of language, mathematical reasoning and scientific thought is emphasised throughout.

Upper School

TThis area is for three years up to the age of five. Our programme for learning builds on the children’s knowledge and skill base, learning style and interests. A rich variety of projects investigates the workings of widening world and enhances the development of emerging knowledge and skills. A balance of child initiated and adult planned learning across 6 key areas of learning is provided throughout the day. At this stage we offer guided experiences that encompass all the skills and understandings necessary for optimum development and success in school, introducing a wide range of subjects such as Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, Growing Readers, science, IT, Ballet, the World Around Us and Spanish. We focus on each child’s individual needs in order to develop their confidence and independence in preparation for school. Many of our nursery children have successfully passed assessments for places within the private schools in the area.

For more information please call: 0800 085 4074 (9am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday) or email parentenquiries@brighthorizons.com