Extra-curricular activities at Hampton Nursery

Rhythm Time

Rhythm Time is music-based development for new born babies to pre-school children and includes music classes for children within nurseries and children’s centres across the UK. Sessions are in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage and are loved by the children and adults alike.

Today over 10,000 children enjoy Rhythm Time classes every week. These classes are run by franchisees who take great pride in delivering top notch and award-winning music classes throughout the country.

Rhythm time classes for babies and pre schoolers

Every baby, toddler and pre-schooler is an individual with great potential. Rhythm Time classes teach you how to make music fun for your child, and show you how you can help to unlock their potential by singing and making music together, and how it can help enhance your little one’s development. More importantly, when they’re making music with others, key skills are developed such as:

Socialising, confidence, listening, speech, co-ordination and creativity

Communication and language

Physical development

Personal, social and emotional development

Babies – Birth to 6 months

It’s never too early for your little baby to enjoy the wonders of music. Rhythm Time’s award-winning multi-sensory baby classes will help your little one’s:

Language development

Eye tracking/balance

Muscle development

Bonding and relaxation

Hand/eye co-ordination and speech development

Social skills – meeting and sharing with their little friends

Courses are created specifically to enhance babies their early development from birth to under 6 months.

In this music-based course, we'll show you lots of special bonding and development activities that both you and your young baby will love. These classes will help to stimulate baby's vision and hearing, promote deeper sleep, improve muscle tone, flexibility and circulation, introduce them to 'tummy time', plus LOTS more.

Toddlers

Your toddler’s confidence, creativity and co-ordination will flourish with fun, quality toddler sessions. Watch them advance as they:

Explore different percussion sounds, enhance co-ordination and develop a sense of pulse

Build their confidence and self-expression through dance

Develop listening skills and a musical ear

Practice rhymes to develop speech

Learn to listen and concentrate

Pre-schoolers

Watch your pre-schooler start to ooze confidence and develop their skills even more as they prepare for school. And, what an amazing array of skills your pre-schooler will have learned, from conducting, reading musical signs and playing simple pieces of music, to singing individually. These classes will pull everything together and give your pre-schooler a really firm musical foundation.

Forest School

Forest School is an innovative educational approach to outdoor play and learning. They offer ALL learners regular opportunities to achieve and develop confidence and self-esteem through hands-on learning experiences in a woodland or natural environment with trees.

By participating in engaging, motivating and achievable tasks and activities in a woodland environment, each participant has an opportunity to develop intrinsic motivation, sound emotional and social skills. These, through self-awareness can be developed to reach personal potential.

Forest Schools aims to develop:

independent thinkers

better at focusing and concentrating

measured challenges help to build confidence to try new skills

To build dialogue and shared learning skills

practical skills and empower less academic learners

Key outcomes of Forest School:

Confidence

Social Skills

Language and Communication

Spanish

Spanish classes are for the pre-school aged children.

Our Spanish teacher Nicky is a fully qualified language teacher with a first class degree in Spanish.

Nicky has been teaching early years languages for over 10 years and is passionate about language learning.

The Spanish lesson is in a warm enabling environment, within the nursery and the children learn through fun.

All activities are linked in with the Early Years Framework, and also link in with the pre-school room planning.

They will learn songs, stories, rhymes, dances, and enjoy puppet shows and miming.

The children always have so much fun, but also the lesson is structured and the children really benefit from this style of learning.

Each week the children receive, stickers and word sheets to go home, so you can practice together.

Spanish Lesson Benefits:

Children can improve all language skills through mimicking and non verbal communication

Language learning can improve cognitive skills, co-ordination, creativity and sense of well-being and confidence.

Children who learn a 2nd language tend to out-perform against their peers

Children will soon be singing and speaking in Spanish!

Key outcomes of learning Spanish: