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Mealtimes at Portland House Nursery in Huddersfield are happy, calm and social occasions with shared conversation. Practitioners use meal and snack times to further learning experiences, role model and bond with their key children and to help promote independence through making choices, serving food and drink and feeding themselves. Children are involved in the setting of tables, serving and clearing away, with pre-school children often taking on the role of ‘mealtime monitor’.
Staff want mealtimes to be leisurely, with children given time to finish their food, so in the larger rooms there are two sittings for lunch in order to keep group sizes smaller and more intimate. There is also an outdoor dining area and children enjoy eating around a camp fire.
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