Daily Routines

Explorers' Daily Routine

8.00-9.00

Breakfast

9-11.00

Free play session -  inside and outside (snack available at 10am)

11.00-11.30 Nappy changing
11.30-11.45 Group time
11.45-12.30 Lunch time
12.30-3.15

Transition to sleep. As children wake, free play session - inside and outside. (snack available at 2pm)

3.15-3.30 Group time 
4.00-4.30 Tea time
4.30-5.45 Free play session - inside and outside 
5.45-6.00 Staff handover to parents and carers

Navigators' Daily Routine

8:00 – 9:00am

Children begin to arrive/Breakfast available/Free Play

9:30am

Children given access to outdoors

9:30am

Core day children arrive/planned activities begin

10:00 – 10:30am

Fruit snack available

11:15 – 11:25am

Children tidy up together (Messy play slightly earlier)

11:25 – 11:40am

Language Group Time

11:45 – 11:55am

Free play outdoors

12:00 – 12:30pm

Lunch time

12:30 – 1:00pm

Free play outdoors / Sleep time for some children

1:00 – 2:55pm

Free play and planned activities indoors and outdoors

2:55 – 3:10pm

Tidy up time

3:10 – 3:25pm

Language Group Time

3:30pm

End of day for core day children. All staff must go outdoors to plaza, staff to handover to parents and carers

3:30 – 3:45pm

Free play outdoors

3:45 – 4:15pm

Teatime for children

4:15 – 6:00pm

Extended day

Pioneers' Daily Routine 

8.00-9.00

Children begin to arrive, breakfast is available 

Free play and planned activities begin 

9.30 (or earlier if possible)

Children given free access to outdoors

10-10.30

Healthy snacks are available to children 

11.15-11.25

Staff and children tidy up together

11.25-11.40 

Language Group time

11.40-12.00

Free play outdoors 

12.-00-12.30 

Lunch time

12.30-1.00

Free play outdoors, sleep time for some children

1.00-3.05

Free play and planned activities indoors and out

2.00-2.15

Healthy snacks are available to children

3.05-3.20 

Afternoon language group 

3.30 

End of day for core day children. Staff handover to parents and carers.

3.30-4.00

Free play outdoors

4.00-4.30

Tea time for children

4.30-6.00

Free play indoors and out and planned activities (season permitting) Staff handover to parents and carers.