The Reddam House Early Learning School (ELS) provides a warm, nurturing learning environment with a large central grassed playing area and separate gardens for each stage to cater for the children’s specific developmental and growth needs. The school serves lunch in the dining hall to all children who attend aftercare. The dining hall doubles up as an indoor play area. An aftercare facility, the Adventure Zone, is available after school until 17:30 each day. This service is offered at no additional cost to parents. For a little insight into our ELS, please watch OUR SPECIAL LITTLE PEOPLE.

From the outset, our Reddam House Early Learning School is influenced by the unique Reggio Emilia approach, recognising and celebrating each child’s innate abilities and gifts. We regard children as competent and capable, and respect childhood as a time to explore, create and be joyful whilst learning. Our Early Learning School (ELS) environment and teachers also support the Reggio Emilia philosophy.

We believe that we are ‘doing it differently’. The children are welcomed into each room personally by the educators who support each child in the transition between home and school. The door into the Early Learning School is the ‘hinge’ between the two most important worlds in your child’s life. 

The rooms are calm, beautiful and organised. Each space is carefully resourced with natural objects matched with palettes of paint or jars of crayons with the intention of inspiring each child to explore colour, shape and pattern. Construction areas have the beginning of a building to extend and motivate children into their own buildings and imaginative play. In each corner of each room there is a spark of interest waiting for a child to take this forward and direct their own learning and answer their own questions.

We inspire the children to have confidence and imagination towards how they will proceed with their activities, to become creative and critical thinkers who can learn independently. This is what we believe is the most important part of the education we provide at the Early Learning School. Please do come and visit us, taking part in an individual tour so that we can demonstrate to you how all of our children are learning and enjoying their experiences in our school.