Our Approach: A Snowflakes Early Education
A True Intergration of Child-led Montessori Learning with EYFS Structure
Individual Learning Paths
At Snowflakes, we have developed a thoughtfully integrated approach to early education, blending both Montessori child-led learning with the EYFS framework.
We respect your child as a capable, eager learner who develops their own understanding of the world. We guide their natural curiosity through purposeful exploration, creating a community of confident, self-reliant and independent learners that maintain their natural curiosity when they leave us for school.
Structured Work Cycles
Our daily morning structured sessions illustrate our educational philosophy at Snowflakes. Children follow their interests within a prepared environment, crafted weekly by our teachers who guide development through careful observations and timely intervention when needed.
This child-centred learning approach ensures that every child engages deeply with purposefully chosen activities tailored to their developmental milestones and tracking.
Observations & And Guided Autonomy
Finding the correct balance between freedom and structure in our individual tracking system has taken years to perfect, and we take great pride in it.
Children choose activities that appeal to them; your child's key worker is responsible for ensuring they receive exposure to all developmental areas.
If we observe a child avoiding literacy, we might introduce writing letters in sand play using toy cars. This way, we meet them in the middle while gently keeping them on their individual learning paths, preschoolers need for success.
Our 50-Week Real-World Themed Journey
Our 52-Week Real-World Themed Journey
Every week brings a new theme—from "Under the Sea", "People Who Help Us" or "pets at home"—ensuring breadth of knowledge while maintaining excitement. This systematic approach to our nursery curriculum means:
Minimising learning gaps in development
Forming real-world connections
Seasonal awareness
Creating a multi-layered learning experience
Weekly themes integrate both Montessori materials and EYFS objectives, providing a comprehensive approach to learning. Exposing children to this multi-layered learning experience truly has a compounding effect when children are exposed to it early and often for life.
"The Snowball Effect": Integrating The Philosophies
While EYFS provides the framework to ensure nothing is missed, Montessori provides the methodology. Every activity serves multiple developmental purposes, carefully mapped to ensure growth that does not feel forced or academic.
Key Worker's Observations
Structured Work Cycles
Individual Milestone Tracking
Led by your child's interests
Reinforced with real-world themes week by week.
This turns development into a compounding effect turning "snowflakes children into rolling Snowballs". Children who are exposed to this repeated weekly journey with us have shown us year after year that their growth is truly limitless
A Gentle Entry Point To Development
Within two weeks, we gently assess each child through play observation, identifying their starting point without pressure or testing. This forms the foundation of our developmental milestones tracking system, enabling us to begin a journey tailored to your child in the most efficient way possible.
Parent Partnership
Real-time updates captured via the EYlog app through our parent app mean you're always connected to your child's learning journey, giving you insight into what we do with your child and allowing you to continue the fun at home.
We provide deep insights and collaborative "next-step" planning, which is what we base the planning for our "structured work cycles" on. The benefits of active family involvement are compounding.
We have an open-door policy, and we encourage parents to pop into the office for meetings if interested in continuing the work we do at home too.
Our comprehensive curriculum tracking includes:
Continuous Progress Tracking
Our comprehensive curriculum tracking includes:
Daily observations captured via EYlog app
Weekly team meetings reviewing individual progress
Termly comprehensive evaluations
Individual Support Plans when needed
Excellence In Child Development
Our approach ensures children excel across all seven EYFS framework areas while engaging with all the Montessori elements.
Montessori Elements In Practice
Practical Life Skills
From pouring drinks to caring for plants, children develop fine motor control, concentration, and independence through real, purposeful activities. These form the foundation of our educational philosophy nursery
Sensorial Learning
Specialised materials help children classify and understand their world through touch, sight, sound, taste, and smell, building cognitive foundations essential for our child-centred learning approach.
Mathematical Concepts
Concrete materials like golden beads make abstract concepts tangible, ensuring deep understanding rather than rote memorisation. This exemplifies how preschoolers naturally experience mathematics through their individual learning paths.
Language Development
Sandpaper letters, moveable alphabets, and vocabulary baskets create multi-sensory pathways to literacy, supporting our school readiness program.
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EYFS In Practice
Prime Areas
Communication & Language
Personal, Social & Emotional Development
Physical Development
Specific Areas
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts & Design
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Grand Union Village - Branch Address:
8 Higham Mews
NORTHOLT,
UB5 6FP
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