Howell’s School Nursery provides a warm and welcoming introduction to our Howell’s family where the girls take their vital first step on our “learning ladder”. From the start, our core values are firmly embedded into the learning experiences to enable every girl to achieve her full potential in all aspects of her development.

Our nursery-learning programme is based on The Foundation Stage Curriculum and this is enriched by a wealth of carefully planned, purposeful activities to stimulate and engage the girls in their learning. Our aim is to foster the girls’ curiosity of the world around them. Creative challenges and opportunities ensure that girls are actively engaged in their learning from the outset.

From the moment girls enter our bright, cheerful nursery, they sense that school is a good place to be where exciting things happen.

We value our close working relationships with parents and take every opportunity to share and discuss progress and welfare. Parents are kept fully informed by staff about their daughter’s learning in a variety of ways including termly curriculum letters, parent consultation evenings and curriculum evenings.

Extra-curricular activities take place both during lunchtimes and after school. These are an important part of our school day and offers rich opportunities for girls to develop new interests. These include:

• Music clubs Green Gang (Environmental)
• Writing Science
• Fun with numbers (Maths) Latin
• French Sports activities

We firmly believe that the aim of the school curriculum must be the development of effective thinking skills together with personal and social development. We see this duality as essential to raising the standards of attainment of all girls.

We adhere, in broad terms, to the core requirements of the National Curriculum; however, an education at Howell’s extends well beyond the prescribed syllabus content with the express intention of enthusing girls about the very processes of learning itself. The key is independent learning. We feel that girls must acquire insights into their own learning processes and their effectiveness.

Our girls are encouraged to develop skills of self-analysis and reflection, choosing learning methods that suit them best, whilst it is the role of their teachers to challenge and motivate girls towards an appetite for lifelong learning. Our aim is to help students acquire skills essential to tackling a competitive and rapidly changing world.