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Queens Road Playgroup is the longest established playgroup in Royston. The playgroup was originally set up in 1962.

At Queen’s road playgroup our purpose is to provide a safe, happy and stimulating environment for the children to learn social and physical skills through play and a range of organised activities.

We are a very caring and dedicated group of fully trained staff, offering high quality care and education for all of the children.

We are registered to accept 25 children per session. We operate on a minimum staff ratio of 1 adult to 5 children.

The key worker will record the children’s play and learning and put this information in the individual record books. These books are available to parents at anytime.

We are registered with OFSTED and hold the Hertfordshire Quality Standards Kite mark.

Our curriculum is based on the Early Years Foundation Stage.

The four themes of the EYFS are: Inuet display

A Unique Child
Positive Relationships
Enabling environments
Learning and development

The four principles of the EYFS are:

Every child is a competent learner from birth who can be resilient, capable, confident and self assured.
Children learn to be strong and independent from a base of loving and secure relationships with parent and/or a key person.
The environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning.
Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates and all areas of learning and development are equally important and inter-connected.

The commitments of the EYFS are:

Child development
Inclusive practice
Keeping safe
Health and well-being
Respecting each other
Parents as partners
Supporting learning
Key person
Observation, assessment and planning
Supporting every child
The learning environment
The wider context
Play and exploration
Active learning
Creativity and critical thinking
Areas of learning and development

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Personal, social and emotional development
Communication, language and literacy
Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy
Knowledge and understanding of the world
Physical development
Creative development

The aims of Queens Road Playgroup are:

To increase the child’s independence
To improve self confidence
To provide the opportunities for stimulating activities
To develop language skills
To develop social skills
To provide opportunities for the child to experiment and explore.
To learn through his/her own experiences and mistakes
To improve co-operation and discipline
To increase knowledge and understanding

All of these will prepare your child for nursery. We look forward to your child joining us at playgroup, where they will enjoy learning through their play.

Admission policy

Depending on spaces available, a child will be offered a playgroup place in the term of their 3rd birthday. If we have a waiting list, children will be offered a place in the order in which they appear in the waiting list book.