Our Commitment to Your Child’s Growth
At Thornton Heath Nursery School, we are dedicated to continuous improvement to ensure the best possible outcomes for every child. Your child’s development, happiness, and well-being are at the heart of all we do. We provide a caring, inclusive, and stimulating environment where children feel confident to explore, learn, and thrive. By celebrating each unique child, working in close partnership with families, investing in staff development, and delivering a thoughtful, child-centred curriculum, we give every child the strongest foundation for a lifelong love of learning.
School priorities for 2025 -2026
Priority 1 : Curriculum
To continue develop and implement a progressive, skills-based curriculum for the children at Thornton Heath Nursery School that is ambitious, fosters curiosity, and builds strong foundations for future learning through rich, meaningful, and developmentally appropriate experiences.
Priority 2 : Language and communication
To continue to embed an ambitious approach to early education that focuses on building language and developing children’s understanding of curriculum based language through high quality interactions, enriched vocabulary and consistent opportunities for talk, enabling all children at the nursery to become confident communicators.
Priority 3 : Oracy
To enhance the development of oracy skills in children aged 2-4 by creating a language rich environment, embedding high-quality adult and child interactions and fostering confident, expressive communicators from the earliest stage.
Priority 4 : Wellbeing
To continue to provide a nurturing and emotionally supportive environment where all children at Thornton Heath Nursery School are supported to develop secure relationships, express their emotions appropriately, and build resilience through consistent routines, staff responsiveness, and targeted wellbeing activities.