Grapevine Nursery School is owned and run by a teacher who has spent her career in mainstream schools, which is why education is at the heart of all our activities.

We use the Highscope approach to develop learning, which encourages children to make choices from babyhood. Our educational system combines small-group sessions (when staff develop structured activities with children) and “work times,” when children are offered their choice of all play materials - but they must first plan their intended activity by telling their key worker what they wish to do.  

At the end of work times, children gather in small groups with their key worker to talk about what they did/made/learned, and show their models/pictures to the rest of the group. In this way a “plan, do, review” cycle is established.