Smiling Faces Pre-School

PLAY . LEARN . LAUGH

"The teachers are very nice and they pay attention to every child."

"It is a great place! The environment is clean and comfortable too."

"My daughter absolutely loves it! She's made lots of friends and is learning so much!"

Our Settings

Virtual Tour of Our Nursery

Smiling Faces Pre-school is situated within a hall in The Penge Congregational Church. We have a wide variety of learning resources as well as access to an outdoor space to develop everyone learning skills as part of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework.

At Smiling faces Pre-school, we provide a multi-cultural service to all families and their children in the community and the surrounding communities. We provide an environment that is safe and combines learning with play in a professional way. We recognise the diversity and complex needs of each unique individual.

We are registered to accept 23 children per session and offer places to children age 2-5 years old. Our sessions are 9am-12pm, 12pm-3pm or a full day 9am-3pm. We offer spaces for the extended 30-hour entitlement, universal 15 hours for 3 & 4 years old and the 2-year-old funding for eligible families. Children attending the full day bring their own pack lunch. A healthy snack is provided on both sessions.

Our pre-school reflects the overarching principles of the Statutory Framework for the Early Years and the children learning and development is guided by the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Areas of learning:

Personal Social and Emotional Development: With a positive role model, staff encourage children to develop a positive sense of themselves. They are encouraged to respect each other, manage their feelings and form positive friendships and to be confident.
Communication & Language: Children can listen to a variety of stories, interact with their peers and teachers, sing nursery rhymes and is encouraged to ask questions.
Physical Development: We have an outdoor space equipped with toys to support physical development. Fine motor skills are developed with the use tweezers, threading different items and construction toys.
Literacy: We provide a range of reading materials for children to use. We encourage them to tell a story using pictures and their own imagination.
Mathematics: Children are given the opportunity to identify numbers, shapes and using them in several simple ways.
Understanding the world: We encourage children to make sense of the community and to explore their surroundings. We share different cultural events and holidays.
Expressive Art & Design: We encourage children to use their imagination to create pictures exploring different materials. We also encourage the use of different media, dance and role play.

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