Pre-School / Day Care in Bolton, UK

Lostock Playschool, Bolton:
Lostock Playschool, located in Bolton (18 miles northwest of Manchester), North West England, is a Preschool offering childcare for children aged 2 1/2 to 5 years old. Our Preschool provides structured learning through play in a safe, fun, stimulating and caring environment. The Playgroup follows the guide lines as set out in the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework which is a Statutory Framework for the Early Years Learning and sets the standards for development and care for children from birth to five years. Our qualified staff are dedicated and passionate about childcare and pride themselves on close relationships with the children and parents. Lostock Playschool is fully Ofsted inspected.

Early Years Foundation Stage:
The Early Years Foundation Stage is Statutory Framework for the Early Years Learning which sets the standards for development and care for children from birth to five years. The aim is to ensure that every child is given the opportunity to learn through high quality play experiences.

Our curriculum covers the six areas of learning and development:
- Knowledge and Understanding
The children are encouraged to talk about their families, the past and present, where they live, explore features of living things, question why things happen and how they work, and to use technology to support their learning.

- Physical
The children are encouraged to move confidently with increasing control, use a range of large and small equipment, use balancing and climbing apparatus and to handle appropriate tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control.

- Personal, Social and Emotional
The children are encouraged to share, work as part of a group, develop personal hygiene, build confidence and self-esteem.

- Communication, Language and Literacy
The children are encouraged to express themselves, talk and listen, use and enjoy books, and recognise and write their own names and some alphabet letters.

- Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
The children are encouraged to recognise shapes and patterns, compare, sort and match objects, recognise and use numbers to 10.

- Creative
The children are encouraged to explore sound, colour, texture, shape, space and form, respond in a variety of ways to what they see, hear, smell, touch and feel, to observe and listen, use imagination through art, music, dance, stories and imaginative play.