What is BarBar like for children?

Children meet lots of new children and become friends with them along with the adults and staff at BarBar. Some children will be those that they have been friends with since they were babies, others will be brand new friends, and some will stay friends with them on into Primary School.

The focus of the nurseries and pre-schools is on child centred play with the children having free access to a wide range of activities and equipment such as sand and water play, music and puzzles, painting, construction activities, small world,  role play and dressing up, and outdoor experiences of role play, trips and visits, and climbing apparatus. Some adult directed activities occur and these include craft, cooking, story time, dance and music and PE.

BarBar has a wide range of toys games and activities to make the child’s learning fun - for example there is a role play area, home corner, dressing up, workbench, garage and cars, a brio train set, duplo, octons, a quiet book corner, threading, cards, games and puzzles, dolls and prams and an outdoor play area with a house, tunnels, balls, hoops, rockers, slide, trampoline and a climbing frame.

Children have lots of practical creative activities to do- including painting, glueing, play dough, clay modelling, cutting and sticking.  Music, songs and rhymes and dances are an important part of nursery life along with story time and access to a wide variety of books for self exploration.

We introduce children to ICT skills with the use of a  computer, games, trips out with practical ICT experiences, musical instruments, tapes and books.   

The children wore their pyjamas to nursery to raise funds for charity- Feb 2009

During the day at BarBar children are provided with a healthy snack of fruit, cheese and ham, toast, biscuits etc along with water or milk .

Children staying all day have a hot cooked two-course meal prepared at The Rosary School  or at Stratford Park costing £2.00 a day.