A Warm Welcome to Mehria Wonderland Nursery
“Building firm foundations for better futures through holistic learning, where children are happy and fulfilled as a result of experiences packed with awe and wonder ”.
About us
Mehria Wonderland Nursery combines traditional Early Years Education with child centered learning. A team of qualified passionate and dedicated practitioners work together to provide a joyful, stimulating, safe, and nurturing environment, where children can play, explore, and experiment to become confident, inquisitive, and capable learners.
Our Vision
Our ethos is a unique, child-centered philosophy that aims to develop each child holistically. We adopt the multiple intelligence approach that teaches us that every child is intelligent, which we firmly believe, so infused with the Early Years Foundation Stage we ensure to support each child to develop their individual intelligences through play, giving them the confidence to achieve their full potential and enable them to become self-actualised.
Opening times
Monday to Friday- 9am to 3pm
Term time only
Our Values
Throughout every aspect of our practice, we are guided by our HEART Values:
Honesty: We are open and honest in everything we do.
- We want parents/carers to say: “I feel staff are open and upfront therefore I trust them”
- We want our staff to say: “I speak up and feel comfortable admitting if I don’t understand something or I’ve made a mistake”
Equality: We value all people equally and treat them fairly, whilst recognising their individuality.
We parents/carers to say: “I feel that I am seen as a person and treated fairly”
We want our children and staff to say: “I feel that I am listened to and that my views matter”
Accountability: We provide excellent care and ensure the safety and wellbeing of all under our responsibility.
We want parents/carers to say: “I feel comfortable that staff will do the best for my child”
We want our staff to say: “I take pride in the work I do and take responsibility for making a difference everyday”
Respect: We treat everybody the way we would like to be treated.
We want children to recognise: they feel comfortable that staff members have regard for their feelings and wellbeing.
We want our staff to say: “I value every person as an individual and I feel valued”
Teamwork: We work together to make improvements, delivering consistent high quality, safe care.
We want our staff to say: “I support my colleagues and feel engaged in our setting”
Our Aims
-To provide a high-quality nursery experience, where children are at the heart of everything that happens.
-To create a safe, appealing and inspiring nursery environment, where children thrive and learn.
-To build secure and trusting relationships with children and their families, valuing parents as their children’s primary and most important educators.
-To celebrate diversity, appreciating and respecting the things that make each child unique.
-To continuously strive to improve the nursery into the best that it can be.
Our Vision
Our ethos is a unique, child-centered philosophy that aims to develop each child holistically. We adopt the multiple intelligence approach that teaches us that every child is intelligent, which we firmly believe, so infused with the Early Years Foundation Stage we ensure to support each child to develop their individual intelligences through play, giving them the confidence to achieve their full potential and enable them to become self-actualised.
Opening times
Monday to Friday- 9am to 3pm
Term time only
Our Values
Throughout every aspect of our practice, we are guided by our HEART Values:
Honesty: We are open and honest in everything we do.
- We want parents/carers to say: “I feel staff are open and upfront therefore I trust them”
- We want our staff to say: “I speak up and feel comfortable admitting if I don’t understand something or I’ve made a mistake”
Equality: We value all people equally and treat them fairly, whilst recognising their individuality.
We parents/carers to say: “I feel that I am seen as a person and treated fairly”
We want our children and staff to say: “I feel that I am listened to and that my views matter”
Accountability: We provide excellent care and ensure the safety and wellbeing of all under our responsibility.
We want parents/carers to say: “I feel comfortable that staff will do the best for my child”
We want our staff to say: “I take pride in the work I do and take responsibility for making a difference everyday”
Respect: We treat everybody the way we would like to be treated.
We want children to recognise: they feel comfortable that staff members have regard for their feelings and wellbeing.
We want our staff to say: “I value every person as an individual and I feel valued”
Teamwork: We work together to make improvements, delivering consistent high quality, safe care.
We want our staff to say: “I support my colleagues and feel engaged in our setting”
Our Aims
-To provide a high-quality nursery experience, where children are at the heart of everything that happens.
-To create a safe, appealing and inspiring nursery environment, where children thrive and learn.
-To build secure and trusting relationships with children and their families, valuing parents as their children’s primary and most important educators.
-To celebrate diversity, appreciating and respecting the things that make each child unique.
-To continuously strive to improve the nursery into the best that it can be.
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Our Curriculum
Additional hours charged at £7.00 per hour for 2-4 year olds
Mehria Wonderland Nursery
Including SEND Adaptations and Safeguarding Alignment (KCSIE 2025)
Policy Date: October 2025
Review Date: October 2026
EYFS Lead: Sofia Hakim
SENCO: Sofia Hakim
Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL): Zile Humma
Manager: Mr Qazi Senior Manager
1. Policy Statement
Our nursery provides a nurturing, inclusive and stimulating Early Years environment for children aged 2–5 years, where every child can thrive and reach their full potential.
Our curriculum follows the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage
(EYFS 2025) and uses Development Matters (2023) as a non-statutory guide. We are committed to:
– Delivering a broad, balanced, and ambitious curriculum for all children.
– Adapting provision for children with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND).
– Embedding safeguarding and welfare throughout the curriculum, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE 2025).
– Promoting equality, inclusion, and respect for diversity.
2. Age Groups and Focus Age Group Main Curriculum Focus
2–3 years (Toddlers) Emphasis on Prime Areas:PSED, Communication & Language, and Physical Development.
3–4 years (Preschool) Extending Prime Areas while introducing Specific Areas: Literacy, Maths, Understanding the World, and Expressive Arts & Design.
4–5 years (Pre-Reception) Deepening learning across all areas with focus on school readiness, resilience, and self-regulation.
Our curriculum aims to:
1. Build strong foundations in Prime Areas of learning.
2. Celebrate individuality and diversity.
3. Support children with SEND through tailored strategies and adaptations.
4. Promote the Characteristics of Effective Learning (Playing & Exploring, Active Learning, Creating & Thinking Critically).
5. Embed safeguarding and well-being through all learning.
6. Prepare children for school with independence, curiosity, and resilience.
Our curriculum is play-based, inclusive, and sequenced for ages 2–5. Practitioners balance child-initiated and adult-guided experiences, using observation, assessment, and planning cycles.
Key implementation features include:
– Learning through play, exploration, and purposeful experiences.
– Differentiation and SEND adaptations (visuals, Makaton, sensory spaces, 1:1 support).
– Inclusive environments with accessible, real-photo labels and open-ended resources.
– Daily outdoor learning and risk-aware exploration.
– Safeguarding integrated through KCSIE 2025 and EYFS 2025 compliance.
We measure curriculum effectiveness through:
– Children’s progress and well-being.
– Observations and summative reviews.
– SEND children’s progress against individual goals.
– Safeguarding practice reviews and compliance checks.
Outcomes include:
– Children demonstrating curiosity, persistence, and independence.
– Secure progress across all learning areas.
– Strong safeguarding awareness among staff and children.
6. Characteristics of Effective Learning Characteristic How We Support It
Playing and Exploring Open-ended play, sensory resources, and child choice.
Active Learning Encouraging persistence, effort, and concentration.
Creating and Thinking Critically Asking open questions, problem-solving, and planning ideas.
7. Monitoring and Review
The EYFS Lead and SENCO monitor planning, inclusion, and safeguarding termly. Parent and child voice are gathered regularly. Policy is reviewed annually or upon guidance updates.
8. Key Roles and Responsibilities
– Manager / EYFS Lead: Oversees curriculum implementation.
– DSL: Leads safeguarding and compliance.
– SENCO: Coordinates SEND provision.
– Key workers: Observe, assess, and support development.
– All Staff: Uphold inclusion and report concerns immediately.
Our Curriculum
Intent, Implementation, and Impact
We aim to offer all children chances to play and explore, to actively learn
through real life experiences building cultural capital to prepare them for the next stages in their lives.
Our Curriculum Intention
The purpose of teaching what we teach?
At Mehria Wonderland Nursery our vision is to provide a safe and stimulating environment where children are at the heart of everything happens at nursery.
Our curriculum aim to offer all children chances to play and explore, to actively learn through real life experiences building cultural capital to prepare them for the next stages in their lives.
Our goal is to insert strong foundations in the EYFS together with the characteristics of effective teaching and learning, as well as ethical and spiritual development so that our children are happy and curious lifelong learners.
Our curriculum is consequently the cultural capital, we know what our curious little learners need so that they can gain the knowledge, understanding and skills to succeed moving throughout their nursery journey. Children experiences within the nursery that provide awe and wonder based on their individuals interests and continuously teaching them all about what life has to offer in a play-based environment. We recognise and value individual’s strengths and talents and believe in praising effort and valuing the little steps that really make a difference to a child’s progress. We know that by doing this, we are building happy and secure children, who feel safe. Praise and clear boundaries contribute to the confidence and resilience of our children. Creating children who are independent, not only in their organisational skills but also in their learning, is a high priority for us. We believe that all children are intrinsically capable of amazing things and we develop this through having high expectations of all children based on their complex needs and backgrounds.
A language rich environment is vital and this is what we strive for within our settings.
Our Curriculum main key standards are:
- Happy, secure and feel safe environment
- Socially strong and able to form positive relationships
- Our curriculum will encourage curiosity and engagement
- Our curriculum is Child-led and Ault-led .
- Our curriculum is strongly linked to the environment and the community
- Our curriculum is literacy rich
- Our curriculum aim is to ensure children are independent risk takers , confident and resilient
- Our curriculum is accessible to all
How We Implement Our Curriculum
How do we teach what we teach?
At Mehria Wonderland nursery we provide a balance of child-initiated activities carefully thought out from their individual interests and learning structures, and purpose built activities which are created to engage and challenge the children in many different ways.
We meet the needs of all our children through planning opportunities that build upon and extend children’s knowledge, experience and develop their independence and confidence.
Our practitioners, then expertly support ‘In the moment’ to further improve and maintain their individual learning needs based on the 7 areas of the EYFS.
The Impact Our Curriculum Has On Our Children
What have our children learnt and how well they have learnt it?
We believe that every child is unique and they all have potential to achieve. Ensuring we are meeting the standards and needs of all our children including EAL, SEND, Disadvantaged, Pupil Premium and small groups of children can be met within the environment of high quality first teaching, supported by targeted interventions where appropriate. In this way is can be seen to be impacting in a very positive way on children’s outcomes.
Ensuring we are meeting the standards and needs of our children including our disadvantaged children including SEND.
Our early year practitioners use their observations/assessments to identify the children’s starting points, and plan experiences and bespoke activities to ensure progress. Evidence of the children’s progress, which includes written observations, videos and photos and separately contributions from parents/carers are recorded on a child’s journey via our Parent Educational Tapestry APP and linked to the the seven areas of the EYFS. Our practitioners use this data to then assess the impact of learning by liaising with other staff members and this helps them create future actions plans.
These prime areas give children the core skills and confidence they need, helping them to engage fully in the next four ‘specific’ areas of learning.
The purpose of teaching what we teach?
At Mehria Wonderland Nursery our vision is to provide a safe and stimulating
environment where children are at the heart of everything happens at nursery.
Our curriculum aim to offer all children chances to play and explore, to actively
learn through real life experiences building cultural capital to prepare them for
the next stages in their lives.
Our goal is to insert strong foundations in the EYFS together with the
characteristics of effective teaching and learning, as well as ethical and spiritual
development so that our children are happy and curious lifelong learners.
Our curriculum is consequently the cultural capital, we know what our curious
little learners need so that they can gain the knowledge, understanding and skills
to succeed moving throughout their nursery journey. Children experiences within
the nursery that provide awe and wonder based on their individuals interests and
continuously teaching them all about what life has to offer in a play-based
environment. We recognise and value individual’s strengths and talents and
believe in praising effort and valuing the little steps that really make a difference
to a child’s progress. We know that by doing this, we are building happy and
secure children, who feel safe. Praise and clear boundaries contribute to the
confidence and resilience of our children. Creating children who are
independent, not only in their organisational skills but also in their learning, is a
high priority for us. We believe that all children are intrinsically capable of
amazing things and we develop this through having high expectations of all
children based on their complex needs and backgrounds.
A language rich environment is vital and this is what we strive for within
our settings.
Our Curriculum main key standards are:
Happy, secure and feel safe environment
Socially strong and able to form positive relationships
Our curriculum will encourage curiosity and engagement
Our curriculum is Child-led and Ault-led.
Our curriculum is strongly linked to the environment and the community
Our curriculum is literacy rich
Our curriculum aim is to ensure children are independent risk takers , confident and
resilient
Our curriculum is accessible to all
How We Implement Our Curriculum
How do we teach what we teach?
At Mehria Wonderland nursery we provide a balance of child-initiated activities
carefully thought out from their individual interests and learning structures, and
purpose built activities which are created to engage and challenge the children in
many different ways.
We meet the needs of all our children through planning opportunities that build
upon and extend children’s knowledge, experience and develop their
independence and confidence.
Our practitioners, then expertly support ‘In the moment’ to further improve and
maintain their individual learning needs based on the 7 areas of the EYFS.
The Impact Our Curriculum Has On Our Children
What have our children learnt and how well they have learnt it?
We believe that every child is unique and they all have potential to achieve.
Ensuring we are meeting the standards and needs of all our children including
EAL, SEND, Disadvantaged, Pupil Premium and small groups of children can be
met within the environment of high quality first teaching, supported by targeted
interventions where appropriate. In this way is can be seen to be impacting in a
very positive way on children’s outcomes.
Ensuring we are meeting the standards and needs of our children including our
disadvantaged children including SEND.
Our early year practitioners use their observations/assessments to identify the
children’s starting points, and plan experiences and bespoke activities to ensure
progress. Evidence of the children’s progress, which includes written
observations, videos and photos and separately contributions from parents/carers
are recorded on a child’s journey via our Parent Educational Blossom App and
linked to the the seven areas of the EYFS. Our practitioners use this data to then
assess the impact of learning by liaising with other staff members and this helps
them create future actions plans.
These prime areas give children the core skills and confidence they need, helping
them to engage fully in the next four ‘specific’ areas of learning.
The conception of an Educational Journey
“Education is our passport to the future. For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today”. (Malcom X)
Teaching at Mehria School Wonderland Nursery is based on integrated learning. Through observation, inquiry, exploration and first-hand experiences, children discover the joy of acquiring knowledge and new skills across the seven areas of learning. In this way, the process becomes more meaningful and less of a routine. A structured approach is followed by combining the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum with experiences underpinned by the British values and cultural capital. Children are taught through play, adult-led learning, and are facilitated a variety of engaging and planned activities, whilst allowing for individual attention and the development of each child at their own pace.
The seven areas of learning and development within the EYFS curriculum
Communication and language development involves giving children opportunities to experience a rich language environment; to develop their confidence and skills in expressing themselves, and to speak and listen in a range of situations.
Physical development involves providing opportunities for young children to be active and interactive; and to develop their co-ordination, control, and movement. Children must also be helped to understand the importance of physical activity and to make healthy choices in relation to food.
Personal, social and emotional development involves helping children to develop a positive sense of themselves, and others; to form positive relationships and develop respect for others; to develop social skills and learn how to manage their feelings; to understand appropriate behaviour in groups, and to have confidence in their own abilities.
Literacy development involves encouraging children to link sounds and letters and to begin to read and write. Children must be given access to a wide range of reading materials (books, poems, and other written materials) to ignite their interest.
Mathematics involves providing children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, calculating simple addition and subtraction problems; and to describe shapes, spaces, and measures.
Understanding the world involves guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community through opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology and the environment.
Expressive arts and design involves enabling children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials, as well as providing opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play, and design and technology.
EYFS Overarching Principles
- Every child is a unique child, who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured;
- Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships;
- Children learn and develop well in enabling environments, in which their experiences respond to their individual needs and there is a strong partnership between practitioners and parents or carers;
- Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates.
Development Matters Guide
We use this guide to track children’s progress and development in accordance to the different age bands. We are making this link available for those parents/carers that may be interested to check where they child is currently at and how to support them at home for their next stage of development.
https://www.foundationyears.org.uk/files/2012/03/Development
Keyworker System
At Mehria Wonderland Nursery we have a keyworker system in place, in which every keyworker establishes a professional relationship with their key child and parent/carer. A key person provides individual, tailored care to every child assigned to them. From an early age, it’s important for a child to develop key cognitive skills like confidence and social interaction, and this key person offers nursery children a place where learning can be performed in a settled, safe and trusting way.
HOW DOES THIS HELP YOU AS A PARENT?
As a parent, you want the best for your child. By pairing them with someone who fully understands their learning, development and individual care, it gives you confidence that your child is developing at a healthy rate. But your child isn’t the only who should be building a connection with this person. Your relationship with your child’s key person is just as important. A partnership with the parent ensures there is full transparency in your child’s learning and development, and it helps you to take your child’s development even further at home.
Staffing ratio
For children aged two years, there is one member of staff with every four children.
For children aged three and over, there is one member of staff for every 13 children.
School readiness
Children are supported to work towards achieving their Early Learning Goals in preparation for the next stage of their learning at the age of 4years +.
Throughout their time in nursery children are regularly observed and assessed which is shared with parents using our online learning journal.
We realise that learning opportunities and new experiences happen both at home and at nursery and therefore always encourage parents and carers to contribute to their child’s learning journal, by making comments and giving constructive feedback.
Termly Parents’ Evenings are also arranged so that parents can get first hand feedback on their child’s development. We aim to ensure that when children do start full time schooling at age 4+ they are well ahead of the academic expectations for their age and will continue to forge ahead as they get older.