Our purpose built, spacious nursery opens out onto a large natural outdoor area providing children with daily opportunities to explore the natural world around them. Both our garden and Nature Kindergarten area offers motivating and varying opportunities for learning. All aspects of the curriculum are explored outside and the wonder and curiosity experienced will serve to enhance and stimulate each child’s learning.
Nursery
Our highly qualified, experienced and motivated team of Early Years Practitioners work alongside our specially trained and qualified Nursery teacher. Staff have an excellent knowledge of childhood pedagogy and our high adult to child ratio ensures that each child’s experience is tailored to their own learning needs and next steps.
Children attend specialist music and French classes and have the opportunity to take part in a wide variety of extra curricular clubs within their nursery day. Our extensive and broad learning experiences offers children the opportunity to learn through play based learning as well as more structured group time experiences.
The developmental milestones matrix is a tool split into four parts; Communication, Thinking skills, Motor skills and Relationships. It is used by the nursery staff to track each child’s individual progress in terms of development.
We update the developmental milestone grids termly and they provide a detailed overview of each child’s development and allow staff to tailor teaching and support to each individual child.
Here is our Developmental milestone matrix. You can hear more about this by listening to our podcast on the topic.
Nursery Information Booklet
Information Booklet (September 2022)
Development Plan 2022/2023
Development Plan 2022/2023
Improvement Plan
Improvement Plan 2022/2023 Update
Our Priority Areas
Priority Areas Spring 2023
What we learn through Play
What we learn through Play
Duty of Candour Report
Duty of Candour Report - March 2022
Nursery Policies
Community Links
Injuries
Administration of Medicine
Spread of Infection
Healthy Eating (September 2021)
Reporting Policy
English as an Additional Language (June 2021)
Participation Policy
Transition Policy
COVID-19 Nursery Risk Assessment
Changing Policy
Dealing with Bodily Spillages
Suncream Poilcy
Induction Policy
Care Inspectorate Induction Guidance
COVID-19 Nursery Risk Assessment - Updated 2.11.21
Nursery Absence Policy
Community Links
Welcome to Cargilfield! We hope this short film gives you a glimpse of what life is like for the girls and boys at our school. We would love to welcome you in person to tour Cargilfield and explain more fully exactly what makes a Cargilfield education so special and so different. Please get in touch with Fiona Craig, our Registrar if you would like to find out more; her email address is [email protected] or you can telephone her on 0131 336 2207.