Aims and Ethos
The Chelsea Nursery provides an outstanding environment for children to thrive. We believe a happy child develops confidence and resilience and can work and play with others. The Chelsea Nursery children are nurtured and inspired by teachers who deliver outstanding learning experiences. They are encouraged to explore their creativity, supported to take risks in their learning and become proud of their achievements. We need confident, caring, and independent young adults, ready to take on the challenges of the world.
At The Chelsea Nursery, our ethos is built on a set of key values that are used to support the development of your child and promote quality teaching and learning.
Our aim is for our values to become a natural part of each child’s understanding of the world, and collectively we work together to ensure they underpin every child’s experience of life.
Our philosophy is simple; that children who are stimulated and challenged will develop a lifelong love of learning and be inspired to become the best version of themselves that they can possibly be.
We foster self-belief, promote curiosity and build resilience through a learning culture where teamwork, taking calculated risks and learning to cope with challenges is the norm and mistakes are seen as a natural part of the learning process. We give our children the time and space to be children within a community that celebrates diversity and individuality.
We create this ethos and achieve these aims by:
- Providing a warm, happy, family atmosphere
- Ensuring all children are valued and cared for as individuals
- Providing a challenging educational experience through a broad, balanced and enriching curriculum
- Offering high quality learning experiences which motivate and inspire little learners
- Encouraging children to be curious, creative and independent
- Celebrating success and achievement
- Generating opportunities for independence
- Supporting children’s wellbeing through the use of emotional language, accepting all emotions and exploring ways to self-regulate through co-regulation
- Embracing holistic development by focusing on the child’s personal, emotional, social and spiritual wellbeing and the understanding that these are interconnected
Our Values
Our five simple values are intended to support the personal, social and spiritual development of each child in our care as they journey through The Chelsea Nursery:
BE COURAGEOUS
Courage is not innate, and we strive to teach our children the need to be courageous. By teaching our children courage, we are giving them the opportunity to try, to fail and then to try again.
BE CURIOUS
We want our children to take a keen interest in the world around them and develop a love of learning. When faced with the scale, intricacy and magnificence of the world around them, our hope is that they develop a sense of wonder and humility.
BE COLLABORATIVE
We teach our children how to collaborate when learning; to work together, compromise and share.
BE CREATIVE
Creativity is characterised by the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. Creativity involves two processes: thinking and then producing.
BE A CRITICAL THINKER
We embrace and encourage problem-solving.