Pre-School
Our youngest children attend Ducklings from the September after their 2nd birthday and Cygnets from the September after their 3rd birthday.
Ducklings and Cygnets provide a caring, balanced and structured ‘home from home’ learning environment and our youngest pupils receive exceptional care and attention. Every unique child is treated as an individual and their needs catered for by an experienced and well-qualified team of Early Years practitioners.
Our pre-school children have fun every day both inside and outside, developing their curiosity and learning about life all the time. They explore the environment; they develop a love of books, music, drama and sport; they plant, paint and draw; they use technology and they learn about different cultures. Visiting specialist teachers run engaging sessions weekly, including Spanish, Drama and Mindfulness.
Our Ducklings and Cygnets are busy and purposeful. They are encouraged to think for themselves and make sensible choices, to share and to make new friends. Our pre-school is a safe, secure, happy place where boundaries are clearly defined and where children thrive, knowing they are valued and respected as the youngest members of the St. Helen’s College family.
Our Ducklings children move automatically into Cygnets Nursery in the September after they turn 3, without any need to re-apply. During their time in Cygnets, subject to readiness, they will be offered a Reception place at St. Helen's College and the vast majority of our pre-school children join the main school and progress all the way through with us.
