Effra Nursery School & Children's Centre
  • Welcome
  • About Us
    • Our vision and ethos
    • Our governors
    • School development plan and EYPP report
    • DfE Financial information
    • Key policies
    • GDPR and privacy notices
    • Ofsted reports
    • Opening times and hoilday schedule
    • Our staff
    • Hiring a space
    • Job vacancies
  • Nursery Provision
    • Emergency procedures for uncollected children
    • Places for 2 year olds
    • Places for 3 and 4 year olds
    • Applying for a place >
      • Enquiry form
    • Children's learning and development >
      • Learning outdoors
      • Learning to communicate, read and write
      • STEM
      • Forest school provision
      • Music therapy and interactive music making
      • Out and about-places to visit
    • Children with special educational needs and disabilities
    • Settling in
    • Daily routines
    • Breakfast and after school club
    • Holiday provision >
      • Holiday provision form
  • Children's Centre
    • Stay and play sessions
    • Family support
    • Training and courses
    • Getting back to work
    • Women only sessions
    • Health and children's development
    • Current events and timetable
  • Gallery
  • Newsletters
  • Contact us
    • Our centres and contacts
    • Legal enquires

Our vision and ethos

Effra is an excellent high quality, caring learning environment; at the heart of the community, where all children and families are welcomed and supported to enjoy lifelong learning.

Our work across the nursery provision and children’s centre is based on our belief that the early years of a child’s life are vital in shaping their future by encouraging positive attitudes to learning and providing opportunities to learn without limits.
During the first five years much of children’s learning takes place. This is the time when attitudes are shaped, first relationships formed, concepts developed and the foundations for later learning made. We therefore have a set of values that run as a golden thread through all the work we do at the centre.

These values are at the heart of everything we do at Effra. We believe that the provision we plan for the children will encourage them to develop their confidence, skills and knowledge and be able to reflect on how they fit into the wider community.

At Effra we work with children to encourage them to care for themselves, for each other and for the environment. Children care for their learning environment by being responsible for tidying up the inside and outside space. We make regular visits to Effra Nature Garden and Brockwell Park for forest school and learning about the natural world. The children plant, grow, harvest and cook fruit and vegetables. We also hatch chicks and watch the life cycle of butterflies every year.

We aim to develop confidence by giving children the skills they need to be confident to voice their needs and opinions and to know they will be listened to and valued. We work with children who need support to ‘find their voice’, and develop their confidence to engage with small and larger groups of children. Our learning environment inside and outside is planned to be appropriately challenging so children can develop skills and confidence across all areas of learning and development.

We offer daily opportunities for children to work on all aspects of creativity from painting to role-play, and everything in between. In addition we provide a STEM curriculum (Science Technology Engineering Maths) to stimulate and support creativity, creative thinking and problem solving. Children are encouraged to express themselves in whatever way they feel confident. This could be through their painting, model making music and singing or though developing roles and personas in role-play.

​We are a fully inclusive centre. All children and families are welcome and we work closely with parents and carers to reduce and remove barriers to learning for children. We aim to provide a curriculum that is appropriate to each child and meets their needs so they make progress during their time at Effra and reach their potential.

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​​35 Effra Parade | London | SW2 1PL
Tel: 020 7733 8425
Email: admin@effra-school.org.uk
Website maintained by: SML​
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  • Welcome
  • About Us
    • Our vision and ethos
    • Our governors
    • School development plan and EYPP report
    • DfE Financial information
    • Key policies
    • GDPR and privacy notices
    • Ofsted reports
    • Opening times and hoilday schedule
    • Our staff
    • Hiring a space
    • Job vacancies
  • Nursery Provision
    • Emergency procedures for uncollected children
    • Places for 2 year olds
    • Places for 3 and 4 year olds
    • Applying for a place >
      • Enquiry form
    • Children's learning and development >
      • Learning outdoors
      • Learning to communicate, read and write
      • STEM
      • Forest school provision
      • Music therapy and interactive music making
      • Out and about-places to visit
    • Children with special educational needs and disabilities
    • Settling in
    • Daily routines
    • Breakfast and after school club
    • Holiday provision >
      • Holiday provision form
  • Children's Centre
    • Stay and play sessions
    • Family support
    • Training and courses
    • Getting back to work
    • Women only sessions
    • Health and children's development
    • Current events and timetable
  • Gallery
  • Newsletters
  • Contact us
    • Our centres and contacts
    • Legal enquires