About Footprints

Footprints offers a unique, personalised, home from home environment for your child. We provide a high quality educational journey, mixed with awe, wonder and excitement for learning!

We believe that children learn best through exploring their own environment and accessing good quality resources. We have therefore designed an open plan indoor space that has a natural and airy feel leading straight to the outside garden, allowing children to have free flow access between both areas and thus enabling us to provide a rich learning space for children to confidently explore.

The Footprints Experience

Early Years Curriculum

Working as an EYFS lead and Deputy Headteacher for 13 years, Rhiannon has extensive knowledge of the early years curriculum and provides an educational environment with high quality adult and child led activities.

Personalised Learning

Extremely small numbers of children means that we can focus on each child’s individual interests in order to create engaging and tailored experiences that meets their specific needs and enables them to make maximum progress in their educational journey, whilst having fun!

Food

Pete has worked as a travelling demonstration chef in England and Northern Ireland, employed by businesses and Local Authorities to educate parents and children on healthy eating. Once described as a 'Poor Man's Jamie Oliver', Pete provides nutritious home cooked meals for the children at Footprints - he also likes the children to have as much chance as possible to cook too!

Early Phonics

Speaking and listening are essential skills for children to acquire as early as possible in order to access learning. The leadership of Phonics is a particular specialism of Rhiannon’s and she plans daily activities that enhance these vital communication skills.

Music

Music helps children to tune in and activates all areas of the brain. Pete (playing multiple instruments - sometimes at once) provides a daily singing session for the children to join in with.

Outdoor learning

Our garden space is complete with a mud kitchen, water wall, sandpit, deconstructed role play area...the list goes on. We strongly believe in high quality outdoor learning as it offers unique opportunities for understanding the world as well as exposes the children to a degree of risk that you can’t gain from inside.

The setting

An open plan indoor space has been designed to have a natural and airy feel leading straight to the outside garden, allowing children to have free flow access between both areas that enables a rich learning space for children to confidently explore in.

Outings

We are so lucky to have West bank park on our doorstep! The huge forest area is perfect for our Wellie Walks where we take our learning outside. Rhiannon is trained to provide activities that increase a child’s self belief, confidence, communication, problem solving skills and emotional well-being. The children absolutely love it!