Our Curriculum at our Day Care in Peterborough

Childcare Curriculum Following EYFS

At Apricot Nursery our staff team is a key element to your child’s learning, below is a breakdown of how we approach different learning possibilities.

How we approach play and education at Apricot Nursery nursery:

Adult Led Pay

Qualified staff delivering the Early years foundation stage

Bringing new ideas to play

Extending children’s ideas and thinking

Helping implementing boundaries and safe play

Adult controlled play

Child Initiated Play

Resource rich environment

Child in Control

Open ended possibilities

Adult follows the children’s cues

Adult support but no direction

The Early Years Foundation Stage

Our curriculum at our Day Care in Peterborough, is designed to teach and educate your child through fun and engaging activities and to learn through their play. With the support of our key person approach and working closely with parents, this gives the best possible to start to a child’s life.

The Early Years Foundation Stage consists of a statutory framework for the Early Years which sets the standards for learning development and care for children from birth to five years. The practice guidance documents support staff in assessing a child’s progress and helps them to provide the best learning experiences for all babies and children.

The Aim

The aim of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is to ensure that every child is given the opportunity to learn through high quality play experiences and that they will be supported through this journey by their relationship with the key person assigned to them at Apricot Nursery Peterborough.

Key person system at our Day Care in Peterborough

The key person at our Day Care in Peterborough, will plan key experiences based on your child’s interests and stage of development and will observe and monitor your child. We believe that parents are the primary educators of their children and we welcome parental contributions to the learning that takes place.

Parents Guide to the EYFS

‘What to expect when?’ is a fantastic document for parents, please click the button below to open the document. You will see guidance in line with the EYFS curriculum but for parents. Please feel free to access this document and share your thoughts with your child’s key person.

My daughter settled really quickly here, out of the 4 childcare providers Millie has been to, Apricot has been the best. The staff are down to earth and friendly and Millie loves it. Being qualified in childcare myself, it’s nice to finally find a place where I feel she’s getting the best! Thank you!

- Netty Barrett -

A great setting with great staff, our daughter loves coming here for after school club to play and see all her friends, hopefully our other daughter will get the same chance to go there when she gets to primary school.

- Phil N Philippa Harwood -

My daughter loves this nursery, she is always happy after sessions. Very friendly staff, healthy food, clean rooms. In our previous nursery my daughter always cried, had night terrors, every time was dirty, but Apricot is amazing, I see big progress in my daughter behavior, she is calm and happy now. Very recommend!

- Karina Fjodorova -