At around 14 months your child will make the transition into our Butterflies group.

In Butterflies we appreciate that most of our children have now found their feet and just want to be up, about and moving! Therefore, we ensure that we provide plenty of opportunities for movement both indoors and out. We also nurture our young children’s natural curiosity and have lots of sensory and heuristic activities available for the children to explore. There is also a huge focus on developing social skills in this age group. Children gradually become more confident, independent and develop sharing skills and friendly behavior through careful support and encouragement of the staff.

Children also participate in short circle time activities where they share their favourite stories and songs as a group. These are always popular and the children love choosing which story is going to be read with their friends. Typically, this age of children are, picking up new vocabulary and linking words together to form short, simple sentences and make verbal requests. We see the children begin to chatter with each other in play and begin to build friendships. Interactions with children of this age group are always lovely!

Butterflies is a lively and busy group with such active and enthusiastic children but there is always lots of fun, excitement and learning to be had!