At Willow, we believe that play is educationally powerful. The staff plan, individually and jointly, to capitalise on the basic principles of play i.e. that it is concrete, active learning that is intrinsically motivating. Using their knowledge of the curriculum, of play and of the children’s developmental stages, the staff plan flexibly to combine adult focused and child initiated play situations. We aim to provide for the needs of the “whole child” i.e. intellectual, emotional, social, physical, spiritual and moral.