Big Room
In the Big Room, activities are centred around imaginative play. Your child can enjoy free play in this room, from a wide selection of activities which include:
- Construction toys
- Stories, books and music
- Floor toys
- Jigsaws and threading/lacing
- Drawing, tracing, colouring in and cutting out activities
- Imaginative play — includes dressing-up and a ‘home corner’, which may take a theme such as a restaurant, a house, a hospital, a hairdressers, a shoe shop etc.
Quiet Room
The Quiet Room is our dedicated preschool area. We provide a sound start for your child by encouraging early preschool skills in reading, writing, letter sounds and maths. We arrange a wide range of planned play opportunities which enable the children to learn through practical hands- on experiences. These include:
- Playing board games, jigsaws, sorting and matching activities, number games and activities to develop early problem-solving, reasoning, numeracy, communication, language and literacy skills
- We have a library where children aged three and above can choose a book each week to share with parents
- Fine motor activities to support pen control skills
- Pre-reading scheme using Oxford University Press materials
The Great Outdoors
In our extensive outdoor areas, activities are available for all areas of learning. Centred on grass, tarmac, bark-chipped areas and natural meadows, activities include:
- An adventure play area, with a pirate ship, wooden train, balancing logs and walking beams
- Trikes, scooters, ride-in cars and pedal tractors with role play road signs
- Our Beach Hut for sand play and a water wall
- An outdoor classroom for story time and games
- A construction zone with helmets, high-visibility jackets and plenty of building bricks and diggers
- A vast range of balls, hoops, foam javelins, hockey sticks and bean bags
- Gardens where the children grow fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers
- Our Woodland Explorers enjoy fun nature walks and activities in our two large fields and copse
- Outdoor creativity wooden obstacle course
Messy Room
In the Messy Room, activities are centred around expressive arts and design. These include:
- Water play
- Sand play
- Play dough
- Cutting, sticking and collaging
- Painting with a wide range of colours and textures
- Sensory play with cornflour and water, snow flakes etc.
- Our quiet and peaceful sleep area for the younger children after lunch
Fitness and Fun
Millfield offers weekly dance, sport and exercise classes to all children at no extra cost.
Each week a motivational sports leader from Urban Movement Primary, visits Millfield and promotes learning through a variety of sporting activities and challenges aimed at developing the motor abilities of Agility, Balance and Co- ordination. These ‘ABCs’ are useful as they form the basics of all sports and physical activities.
Each session is centred in developing fitness and fundamental movement skills. And because it’s fun, the children don’t realise they are practising and learning new skills!
Meal Times
Our cook takes great care to ensure that all the meals provided are nutritious and meet a well-balanced diet. All our meals are prepared and cooked on the premises.
Lunch is served in two sittings in the main nursery — 11.45am for our younger children and 12.15pm for the pre-school children. Our menu is varied and consists of a hot lunch, followed by a desert.
A light tea is served in two sittings at 4.00pm and 4.20pm.
Fresh fruit is served with milk or water at 10.00am. Milk or water is served again along with a savoury snack such as crackers, bread sticks or rice cakes at 3.00pm. Fresh drinking water is available all day.
The children sit at tables with a member of staff, where they are helped and guided to learn table skills to encourage independence.
We continue to hold a five-star rating from Rushcliffe Borough Council Environmental Health officers for our food hygiene and safety standards.
Primary School
Our independent primary school, Colston Bassett School, was established in 2007 to give parents the option to continue their child's educational journey with the Millfield family when they reach the age of four.
Our school is located in the beautiful nearby village of Colston Bassett on the Nottinghamshire/Leicestershire border, only a five-minute drive from Millfield.
The school is situated in a picturesque, rural location on the edge of the village and we take full advantage of our unspoiled surroundings, offering our pupils a unique and distinctive approach to education where traditional family values underpin everything we do.
Policies and Procedures
Below is a list of policies and procedures available to download:
- 1. Admissions, Arrival and Departure Policy
- 2. Allergies and allergic reactions policy
- 3. Attendance policy
- 4. Behaviour Management Policy
- 5. Complaints Policy
- 6. Confidentiality Policy
- 7. Emergency Procedures
- 8. Equal Opportunites policy
- 9. Mobile Phone Policy
- 10. Nutrition and Mealtimes Policy
- 11. Partnership with Parents Policy
- 12. On line safety policy
- 13. Social Networking Policy
- 14. Safeguarding Children - Child Protection Policy _2_
- 15. Special Educational Needs Policy
- 16. Whistleblowing Policy
