Edinburgh Academy Nursery education

The Edinburgh Academy,
10 Arboretum Road,
Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 5PL.
Phone: (0131) 552 3690
Fax: (0131) 551 2660
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The Edinburgh Academy is a
registered charity, no. SC 016999

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Nursery Education

Both Spruce and Rowan nursery units cater for children aged three to five, as we like to have the children mixing with others a little older and a little younger.

Here at the Edinburgh Academy, we provide a warm, caring environment where boys and girls can grow and develop in a secure, stable and friendly environment. We aim to help each child to discover the true joy of learning and guide each individual gently along the path that prepares them for life.

Discovering the Joy of Learning

The carefully structured nursery environment leads to much stimulation and the skills of the trained staff are such that the children are learning without even realising it! Often what is seen to happen in a nursery is described as “just play” but to our young children this is their work.

It is well recognised that the best way for children to learn is through play. We aim to support each child’s development by following a process-oriented play-based curriculum. We provide a wide variety of play experiences based on children’s interests. All of these experiences are to facilitate and support certain aspects of children’s development.

Extending the range of experience

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Nursery education

At The Edinburgh Academy we acknowledge the vital importance of nursery education. Within this department of the school, we develop and broaden the experiences our young children encounter, and guide them towards being confident, enthusiastic and inquiring young people.

Graduates of The Edinburgh Academy Nursery are ready to move along the path that prepares them for life.

This is the beginning of The Academy's celebrated "personally tailored teaching."

Nursery Curriculum

The Curriculum Framework – The Child at the Centre and Curriculum for Excellence, refers to planned learning experiences based on different key aspects of children’s development and learning. It helps the staff to plan activities and experiences that promote children’s development and learning in:

Emotional, Personal and Social Development
Communication and Language
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Expressive and Aesthetic Development
Physical Development and Movement

These key aspects identify a range of learning to which children are entitled during their pre-school years.

Active learning

Active learning is learning which engages and challenges children’s thinking using real-life and imaginary situations.

Spontaneous play
Planned, purposeful play
Investigating and exploring
Events and life experiences
Focused learning and teaching

Here at The Edinburgh Academy, we provide experiences, situations and adventures that help to develop an enthusiastic and inquiring young person.

The natural ability of the young child must be nurtured, encouraged and satisfied to enable strong foundations to be laid for all future learning in life.

Personal Development

Of course, we realise that the education of our nursery children does not start and finish at the nursery door!

We constantly extend and develop the varied experiences of each nursery child and encourage their social, emotional, intellectual and physical development.

(Examples of some special challenges can be seen on our nursery activities page.)