Learning Tree Nursery

Learning Tree Nursery is a nursery in Trade Centre, Dubai offering the International Baccalaureate, EYFS curricula. The nursery welcomes children aged 1 Years to 4 Years Old. Learning Tree Nursery's school has grown out of a passion to provide the highest quality of care and education to children in a rich and stimulating environment. Envisaged and created by seasoned educators, all with a strong foundation in the British Early Years and Foundation Stage Framework, Learning Tree Nursery has developed the nursery's deeply researched and carefully constructed early development programme: The Learning Tree Philosophy. With the nursery's chain of nurseries opening across the U.A.E and Qatar, Learning Tree Nursery hope the nursery's website offers you an insight into the nursery's school and into the workings of the Learning Tree environment.

Fundamentally, The Learning Tree is a neighborhood nursery. Like a tree, it will grow from the nursery's neighborhood and shape the nursery's neighborhood as it caters to the needs of the nursery's community. Dubai, and Executive Towers in particular, offer an exciting environment for families. And Learning Tree Nursery has drawn upon this to create a stimulating environment for the nursery's children: an environment in which children have the opportunity to be active learners, intrepid explorers and creative inventors – all within the safe environs of their school.

the nursery realises that many families in the nursery's community are part of a rapidly changing expatriate environment; nevertheless, they want to be part of a community. A community that has a strong sense of self and in which every child is welcomed as a member of the family and as a friend. The Learning Tree provides an international education to an international community.. in a local neighborhood. Of course, a community is not only about its children, just as education is not only about schools. Here, at the Learning Tree, Learning Tree Nursery creates opportunities for us all to come together during school hours and beyond. Learning Tree Nursery aims to build circles of support for you and your family that are so essential in an expatriate community.

For this purpose Learning Tree Nursery has created the nursery's dedicated Learning Tree Parents’ Lounge. Located on the first floor, alongside the nursery's administrative offices, The Lounge serves as a community centre, a meeting place or simply a peaceful refuge, where Learning Tree Nursery can come together through social events such as coffee mornings, reading groups, 'Mums and Toddlers' events and activities or presentations on child related issues and family well being. The Lounge is also a year round gallery providing parents with a window onto the way Learning Tree Nursery does things and an opportunity for the nursery's children to share their joy and their achievements with the people who matter most.

And parents do matter most. Parents are vital collaborators in the process of a child’s education. Learning Tree Nursery believes firmly in the value of strong home-school partnerships. the nursery's school provides a focal point for the community and brings it together, but it also reaches into the nursery's community.

It reaches into homes as the nursery's teachers work with parents to ensure that they have the necessary skills to reinforce at home.

the nursery expects parents to be active partners in their child’s education. Just as Learning Tree Nursery does, Learning Tree Nursery expect parents to foster the potential of their children to think, to learn and to play. Learning Tree Nursery's children are not simply targets of instruction; their minds are not simply vessels to be filled. the nursery's children deserve to be inspired, to be encouraged and to grow.

Research shows that children learn and develop well in enabling environments, in which their experiences respond to individual learning needs. the nursery considers the environment here at The Learning Tree Nursery to be 'the nursery's third teacher'.

The quality and layout of spaces and patterns of usage are deliberately and painstakingly designed bearing in mind the desired educational outcomes prescribed by the EYFS curriculum.

Learning Tree Nursery's inspiring 'mobile classrooms' are the cornerstone of the nursery's curriculum. The Expressive Arts and Design Room, the Construction and Number Zone and the Language Playroom are destinations along the path of discovery which the children follow in a typical week. These are interconnected spaces which allow the experience of an enhanced Free Flow. Learning occurs in a variety of settings and so, essentially, the classroom is mobile.

the nursery's central indoor role play area, the Learning Square is, as the name suggests, the heart of the nursery's facility. Awash with natural light, and with clearly designated spaces for large and small group activities, this central piazza becomes an interactive space that allows children to build critical social skills. The dress up zone, reading wall, role play area, childrens' theatre and ICT area all provide opportunities for interaction and encourage relationship building.

Learning Tree Nursery is particularly proud of the nursery's private outdoor play area which is equipped with a carefully chosen, age-appropriate outdoor play gym on an Astroturf surface. Under a shady canopy, the nursery's children engage in sand and water play as well as Physical Education games and activities that provide the opportunity to develop their gross motor skills.

Safety and security of the nursery's children is of the highest priority for us and the design of the nursery's premises has been carried out with the utmost regard for this responsibility. Learning Tree Nursery's Early Years Furniture and all educational resources, toys, and indoor and outdoor equipment have been brought in from leading international providers from the U.K, United States and Germany, meeting the highest international standards.