The nursery environment within the Maple room has been carefully created with resources to promote enquiry, collaboration and thinking skills. The continuous provision has been selected to promote the development of the PRIME areas of learning – Personal Social and Emotional, Communication and Language and Physical development.  Resources are displayed to encourage independence and child led enquiry. Children in the Maple room have a daily planned small group time with similar age peers, led by their key person. During this group time they will read stories, sing songs and rehearse rhymes that have been carefully chosen to promote the development of language and literacy skills. Mathematical learning is supported through routine tasks such as self registration onto 5 frames, daily use of 5 frames at snack time, using visual timetables and matching resources to pictures at tidy up time.