All about Queens Road Playgroup
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:
- 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
The areas of learning and development in the EYFS are:
- 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.
