Nursery

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The nursery department, which is the bedrock of academic excellence for Mayflower school ensures that pupils achieve the following before they are promoted to the primary school department by age six:

• To provide pupils with an opportunity to socialize for the first time with children of a slightly different age (aged three, four and five).
• To teach children how to behave in a classroom group: listening, asking permission to speak, waiting one’s turn, sharing toys with others, concentrating for some time, etc.
• To introduce pupils to play-based learning, without formal systematic teaching and learning: basic mathematical language, quantification, seriation, classification and dictation.
• To teach children how to handle coloured pencils and drawing implements, to use construction cubes, to participate in team games.
• To teach children to obey the rules of communal life, to eat their snacks tidily, not to push, to respect other people’s property.
• To prepare pupils for entry into their first year of compulsory education, namely primary year 1, by ensuring that they acquire the basic competences.
• To diagnose possible learning difficulties in pupils and help them to overcome them through early (preventive) intervention.

Admission age for pupils into this department is 3 years.