About Us
Meet Teacher Nicky
The Sunshine Club pre-school is run by Nicky Brunskill, a qualified teacher specialising in early childhood development and foundation phase education. With over 8 years of experience teaching and working in foundation phase classrooms with children from 16 months to 9 years old, Nicky is a passionate and caring teacher with a vision for a school that prioritises exploration and learning through play.
With experience at Atholton Primary and Pre-Primary, Montpelier Pre-Primary, her own holiday school and tutoring services, Nicky’s experience in different classrooms has guided her towards building her dream school which encapsulates all the best practices from modern teaching philosophies.
The Sunshine Club teaching philosophy
We learn together
Our children will learn through play and we will maintain a constructivist approach to teaching, where the children are active participants in building their knowledge.
In the art room, we take on a modern – and more specific – Reggio Emilia approach, allowing children to communicate and express themselves though their creativity.
Instead of being guided towards creating identical copies of pre-planned art projects, our children’s art is an interpretation of their experience.