PRE RECEPTION AND RECEPTION

A talented and experienced team lead our Early Years Department, where our ethos is that happy children learn best. The staff to pupil ratio is high, enabling the children to grow and learn in a safe, stimulating and engaging environment.

We encourage children to join our Pre-Reception group in the year before they start Reception as it eases transition and allows them to explore the learning environment at their own pace. Most families choose 2 or 3 days a week as a gentle introduction to our school, increasing their sessions as they approach the Reception year.

By the end of the Early Years stage our children typically exceed expectations, and, having already been included in all areas of junior school life, are able to make a seamless transition into the main school.

Outdoor learning is a very important part of our Early Years provision and our outdoor learning environments are full of fun and challenging equipment. We believe that starting school is an exciting adventure from which a life-long love of learning can grow.

YEAR ONE TO SIX

We are committed to offering our pupils a truly personalised education.

Our small classes are tailored so that children have a range of experiences, sometimes working in mixed ability groups, and at other times in groups where their needs can be supported more specifically, by either stretching them beyond the content of the normal curriculum, or supporting areas of weakness.

Specialist teaching complements the pastoral care of the class teacher; throughout the school, subject experts teach our children PE, Music and Modern Foreign Languages. By Year 4, alongside these subjects, pupils benefit from a Computing and ICT specialist, in Year 5 Science is added, and by Year 6, Latin.

This rich and varied curriculum is built on close links with the Senior School. Expertise, resources and facilities are shared, our older pupils being taught subjects including Science, Home Economics and Design and Technology in their labs and workshops; at the end of Year 6 Morley House pupils eagerly anticipate their transition to the Senior School where staff who already know them are ready to ease them into the next phase of their education.