At Clifton Kindergarten our aim is to provide children with a range of activities and experiences to meet their individual and developmental needs, within a caring, warm environment.

"The Kindergarten provides good quality nursery education.  Mature, experienced and well qualified staff are exceptionally skilled in using conversational questioning techniques to promote childen's learning." OFSTED 2008

Clifton Kindergarten is an independent, privately owned pre-school facility for children aged 2 to 5 years, situated in purpose built premises within the grounds of Clifton Primary School.  We are registered and monitored by OFSTED to ensure that we provide high quality care and early years education. 

Our premises include a large indoor space and a similarly large outdoor area with an all weather surface so we can enjoy the outside environment throughout the year.

Inside our building we have separated our space into several areas of continuous provision.  We have 16 areas of continuous provision which are available for the children to use as they wish.  These are:-

• domestic role play
• enhanced role play
• sand area
• water area
• malleable area
• tactile area
• mark making area
• workshop area
• woodwork area
• painting area
• printing area
• music area
• construction area
• small worlds area
• computer area
• reading corner

We provide outdoor play on a daily basis.  Our all weather surface allows us to play outside when it has rained and we use umbrellas and our sail shade when it is raining to get some fresh air!  We have recently spent lots of money on our outdoor area allowing it to encompass all areas of continuous provision.  In addition, we have many outdoor toys to rock, push, pull and pedal as well as a climbing frame and a climbing wall.  We also have bats, balls, hoops and bean bags, a small trampoline and tent.  We see outdoor play as a vital part in children's physical development and ensure that the children participate fully in this.