Georgie Porgie's Pre-School

Happy Birthday to our wonderful Debbie 💚🐷🩷
You make us all laugh everyday with your amazing sense of humour. Have the best day 🩷🐷💚

Well July was wonderful, let’s see what A U G U S T brings 🥰
08/12
Let’s make it memorable 💚🐷🩷

💚The Environment is the Third Teacher 💚
Every decision within our environment has been made with one question in mind...
"How does this make a child feel?"

At Georgie Porgies, we believe a child's first teacher is their family. We are privileged to become their second teacher, building relationships, nurturing confidence and inspiring a lifelong love of learning. There has been an abundance of research to suggest that the environment then becomes the third teacher, quietly influencing every experience, every interaction and every opportunity to grow.

Our environment hasn't always looked like this.
Like many early years settings, there was once a time when our walls were brighter, our displays were fuller and we believed that more colour meant more learning.
But through years of reflection, professional study, research and, most importantly, observing children, our philosophy changed.
Research has shown that excessive visual stimulation can make it harder for young children to concentrate, regulate their attention and fully engage in learning. We wanted our environment to do the opposite.

Our love of Hygge became the foundation of that journey.
For us, Hygge isn't about creating beige classrooms or following a trend. It's about creating an atmosphere where children feel calm, safe, connected and truly at home. It is found in our relationships, our routines, our cosy corners, our natural resources and the sense of belonging that every child deserves to feel.
Over time, we have adapted these principles to create an environment that not only nurtures wellbeing but also prepares children for the world beyond our doors.
Schools are often less visually stimulating than early years settings, yet they demand greater levels of concentration, independence and resilience. We believe our role is to prepare children for that transition, not by making learning louder, but by making it richer.
Our practitioners bring the learning to life through meaningful conversations, sustained shared thinking and carefully planned experiences. The environment simply supports that learning; it doesn't compete with it.
Our walls don't need to shout.
The children's voices are loud enough.
At Georgie Porgies, we don't believe the most powerful environments are those filled with the most things.
We believe they're the ones where children feel secure enough to wonder, confident enough to explore and inspired enough to become lifelong learners.
Because when families are the first teacher, practitioners are the second and the environment becomes the third, extraordinary things happen. 🩷

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