In the September / January before your child goes up to Big School, we support them to move to the Busy Bee Room for a short period at the start of the day. Here we gently support the children to develop their school readiness by encouraging their sense of independence and enable them to work together cooperatively with both their friends and adult helpers.

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We are able to do small group work such as turn taking games, listening games and activities which allow older children to explore topics in more depth, developing their natural inquisitiveness and also maths and literacy activities that the younger children are not always ready for.

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At Browns Lane we are led by the children when we plan our activities but we use the opportunity to consider events that are going on in our world and let the children  explore them how they wish. For example, if we have cold weather we may make some ice and see how it feels. Or we might go and make footprints in the frost and watch it melt.

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The Busy Bees still take part in the activities in the main hall with their younger friends