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The Learning Journey Day Nursery

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28 May 2014

13 December 2013

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About The Learning Journey Day Nursery

• Type: Childcare on Non-Domestic Premises, Full day care
• Local authority: Dudley
• Address: Learning Journey, 64 Bromley, Brierley Hill, West Midlands, DY5 4PJ
• Region: West Midlands

Contact details and general enquiries

• Telephone: 01384262155

Registered by The Learning Journey Day Nursery Limited

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• Bromley Pensnett Children's Centre
• The Bromley-Pensnett Primary School

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The Learning Journey Day Nursery

The Learning Journey Day Nursery offers full time and part time childcare at a competitive rate. We are an excellent, newly refurbished facility where children from birth onwards will thrive in our fun environment.

Open Mon-Fri 7.30am-6pm From birth onwards Holiday clubs available please call us for more information

• About The Learning Journey Day Nursery offers full time and part time childcare at a competitive rate. We are an excellent, newly refurbished facility where children from birth onwards will thrive in our fun environment. Read more
• Location : 64 Bromley, Brierley hill, Dudley DY5 4PJ
• Contact : Penny Virdee
• Telephone : 01384 261615
• Email : [email protected]

High staff turnover and a baby room staffed by inexperienced and immature carers. Our feedback was often met defensively but we put our faith in the manager who continually promised to improve things, more fool us for giving her the time of day. Our baby was repeatedly fed allergenic foods even when they had his allergies in writing from a doctor. The staff didn't seem to understand that many foods can contain dairy which can trigger a reaction. We found bright red scratches on our sons groin which were scratches from false fingernails. Again we were promised this was a blip and the staff member would be told off. His diary would always say he ate his dinner and had juice/water but hen would often be famished hungry and thirsty when he got home. This was actually demonstrated in front of the baby room manager when she argued that he'd had his drink and food. The honesty of the staff is under question. At this stage we were looking to organise a different nursery! He was left to sleep in a baby bouncer when he was too old and big to be in a bouncer, and he wasn't strapped in. They actually uploaded a picture of this onto tapestry. Finally, and the point where we removed our son from the Learning Journey, he was sent home with a concussion which it appears they tried to (unsuccessfully) cover up,and was sick in his sleep due to the concussion and could have choked due to lack of safeguarding over a head injury... It was played down as a 'minor knock' and not mentioned until he was picked up by myself. They should have contacted us as soon as he was hurt, and signposted to doctors not downplayed it. That is a matter of due diligence which they didn't do. When it became obvious we'd be going to Ofsted over the above, the manager Penny implied to call child services on us by way of getting us to shut up. I'm just mentioning this as it would seem the manager is a manipulator and someone who values integrity after profits. Beware.

2018-07-06 19:36:28

over all nursery is fantastic from Management to the staff. my child's learning has come on leaps and bounds and as exceeded her development through the support and learning from the girls that look after her. The parent partnership is amazing, they always go above and beyond to support us and our daughters learning. The owner/ management are very reliable and understanding and are also their for support. I would highly recommend this nursery to others.

2018-11-21 17:13:48

My children attend this nursery and it is lovely, I have seen an improvement in my childrens development. The staff are very helpful and friendly and really cater to the childrens need. The facilites are fab their are lots of toys and activites to keep the children happy, while the outdoor area is great , its one of the best nurseries I've viewed.

2015-06-09 17:36:47

Fantastic nursery, staff are welcoming & full of advice, always give detailed feedback of how my son (18 months) has eaten, slept and what activities he has done during the day and what u could do at home to continue his development. This nursery is a must see place to appreciate how happy & settled children are and how beautiful the rooms are and how each room is tailored to the childrens ages & stages. Management go above and beyond to ensure resources are available to all children & resources that the children are interested in. The environment is always clean and the nursery have many measures in place to ensure your child is safe during their time at nursery. I would recommend this nursery to everyone I speak to who is looking for a good nursery I couldn't ask for a better start for my little one.

2014-07-01 19:32:18

This is an excellent nursery, all the staff are warm and make you feel welcome. All still will go out of their way to help in any way that they can. All staff give very detailed feedback on what my children have been doing that day, they tell me how they are developing and ways in which they are helping to further the development of my children. They also ask frequently if there is anything that I would like them to concentrate on within their learning and development and also let me know any ways that I can help my children's development whilst they are at home. Both of my children love coming in to the nursery and are happy whilst they are there. The facilities and resources are amazing, there is lots and lots available for the children to access freely. My children and I are always greeted with a smile and a friendly welcome. You could not ask for a nicer nursery with immense amounts of resources, good clean environment and friendly staff.

2014-07-30 23:09:47

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10 Creative Ideas for an EYFS Learning Journey

A  Learning Journey  is an effective way to collect evidence of children’s development under the key areas identified by EYFS. But are you left wondering what to include to make the most out of them?

We’ve put together 10 simple ideas to help you put together an EYFS learning journey that enables you to present evidence of how children are progressing.

• Speech bubble templates:

Cut out colourful speech bubble templates and use them to record what children say. Not only is this a simple way to support observations, but it also presents an event from a child’s perspective and tracks their language development. These can then be added to their learning journey and can be used to track their progress with language against EYFS outcome goals over time.

     2. Include photographs:

Include photographic evidence to support your observations and assessments. So, remember to keep your camera to hand and take photos of children in action to stick into and personalise their EYFS Learning Journey.

    3. WOW Moments:

Create a WOW note template and have them readily available for parents and carers. This practice allows parents to record their child’s special achievements and make their contribution to tracking their child’s Learning Journey.

    4. Create an “At Home” section:

This is another way to involve parents and carers in the development of their child’s Learning Journey. Encourage parents to bring in content from home; this could include photo diaries of family trips, certificates or even artwork and mark-making achievements. Parents could also be asked to add their own short observation/explanation and the evidence can be added to the Learning Journey and contribute to tracking of EYFS progress.

5. Observation Sticky Notes:

In addition to the more formal and routine early years observations, use post-its or special stickers to record spontaneous observations. These snapshots and bite-sized anecdotes will help add depth to the Learning Journey and track moments that could sometimes be overlooked. Our handy, pocket-sized  observation sticky notes  are a quick and easy way to record an observation in any environment, such as outings.

6. Include samples of work:

Whether it’s mark-making, role-play, artwork or creative expression, real samples of children’s work provide evidence within a learning journey to support your EYFS observations. In addition, instead of simply sticking the work in, why not create special templates?

7. Diary of significant events:

The Learning Journey is all about tracking development over time and a diary of significant events is a great way to do this. You could pick a theme/event for each month, such as Mothers Day in March or Summer in July and collect a piece of related work. This is a great way for the children and their parents to look back over the year and see what they’ve learned and experienced.

8. Involve children:

Older children will enjoy helping to put their Learning Journey together. For example, they could personalise the cover, choose which pictures and pieces of work to include and have a picture of their family in the ‘All About Me’ section. There are lots of opportunities to encourage ownership!

9. Repeat an activity:

A fun way to track development for a learning journey is to ask children to do the same activity at different time intervals. For example, they could draw a self-portrait when they start a setting and again when they leave. Parents will enjoy seeing the visual difference of how much their child has learned.

10. First and last day:

Create a template to record a child’s first and last day at the setting. This could include a photo, an outline of what they did, what they enjoyed and how they felt.

A personalised record of a child’s unique development journey tracks those precious moments as an early year’s child learns, discovers and develops.

Learning Journey resources to make tracking easier:

Are you looking for an efficient and attractive way to record and organise observations, plus carry out the next steps, planning and tracking of progress?

• My Learning Journey  contains sets of blank templates designed to make it easy to capture and document developmental evidence, and it can be personalised with your setting’s name, logo and any other information you would like to include.
• Simply fill them in, and add photos and copies of children’s work. Over time you’ll create a Learning Journey that will impress Ofsted and be a precious keepsake for parents. Available either as a  ring-bound folder  or a  plastic report file folder .
• Learning Journey Tracker  – This full ‘By Age’ Learning Journey Tracker works alongside the Learning Journey. It allows you to track each child’s progress in the 3 prime areas and 4 specific areas of learning and meets all EYFS/Ofsted requirements.
• Observation Sticky Notes  – These handy, pocket-sized observation sticky notes are a quick and easy way to record an observation in any environment.

Essential Reading

Creating an enabling environment

Teaching British values for EYFS

In the moment planning

How many children can a childminder look after?

10 creative ideas for an EYFS learning journey

Ideas and activities for outdoor learning

Starting school readiness

Why children need a balanced healthy diet

HMRC tax guidance for Childminders

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Little Owls is always seeking for fresh approaches to enhance our curriculum in order to promote growth and raise participation. Recently, additional information based on practitioner-led guidance called Birth to Five Matters was published. Therefore, going forward, we’ll employ Birth to Five as a tool in the nursery in addition to Development Matters. The EYFS framework has also been modified beginning on September 1, 2021, to emphasise how to improve outcomes at the age of five. 

The EYFS revisions have given us at Little Owls the opportunity to spend less time on paperwork and documentation and more time with the children to help them develop in the key areas targeted by EYFS 21, which are physical development and literacy, with a stronger focus on pre-reception literacy with linking language to understanding to reading and writing. In order to promote mathematics from a young age in a fun and engaging way, there will be a stronger emphasis on shapes and spatial thinking. Additionally, a bigger emphasis will be put on using art and design to understand the world and foster creativity. Knowing that each child is unique, we can help them focus and concentrate better by using tools like CoEl (characteristics of effective learning), which encourages children to play and discover new things while also thinking critically and coming up with their own solutions to problems.

How will this affect how Little Owls teaches its children and how they develop as individuals? With less paperwork, we can focus more on preparing the short- and medium-term curriculum while also having more time to get to know the children better and understand and appreciate their passions and interests. This hands-on time aids in encouraging a more positive present-moment presence and modifies the curriculum to encourage children’s engagement.

What is EYFS?

The Early Years Foundation Stage ( EYFS ) establishes guidelines for your child’s learning, development, and care from birth to age five. The EYFS must be followed by all schools and Ofsted-registered early years providers, including childminders, preschools, nurseries, and school reception classrooms.  Read More

Understanding COEL

The focus on how children learn has enormous potential to revolutionise early childhood education and enable children to become confident, creative lifelong learners. These qualities, according to research, can be aided or impeded by the experiences that children have.  Read More

Development Matters & Birth to Five

Development Matters and Birth to Five are both non-statutory guidance written by the government and practitioners respectively. You can read more on both methods here. Here at Little Owls will be using a hybrid of the two. Development matters  and  birth to five.

Learning Tools

The resources at Little Owls are crucial to encouraging engagement and development. In addition to the day activities delivered by the Little Owls Team we provide the following activities;

Music classes with Jo Jingles

Drama Class for toddlers and pre school and sensory for babies

Sports coaching for all ages to improve physical health and fine and gross motor skills.

The Great Outdoors

The environment is essential and it must provide a sense of safety and security. In addition to providing a stable emotional environment, the indoor and outdoor setting emphasises how a child will develop and learn. Our outdoor areas are designed to encourage children to study and explore while using their imaginations. In addition to general play, we utilise the space to learn about nature, the elements, insects, and the weather. A rainy day at Little Owls offers a chance for ‘in-the-moment’ learning, allowing children to examine and grasp different weather situations. No matter what time of year it is, Insect Motel has something to teach you about weather and insects.

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Each child  starts a special learning journey when they join Little Acorns Day Nursery and this journey is documented under their own profile on the Famly App.

Each child is observed during play and activities and these observations are used to assess which developmental goals the child is achieving and which they need support in. These observations and assessments are used to plan future activities, purchase new resources and organise outings.

The  Learning Journey also contain:

• parent’s contributions /observations about their child’s interests and development.
• photographs of your child during their day at nursery.
• evidence of your child’s work, this could be pictures, numeracy problems, paintings, cards, photographs of 3D models, examples of scissor work, handwriting etc.

All this information is used to plan activities and freeplay resources for your individual child to extend the child’s learning in areas they are excelling at and support their needs where necessary. You will be sent a PDF of your child's journey on their last day at nursery for you to keep.

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Charlie Bear's Child Care

Our team creates a safe, nurturing learning environment..

In an environment of nurturing care, children grow in confidence and learn developmentally appropriate skills to create a life-long love of learning. Charlie Bear’s Child Care is a dynamic program that provides early-learning opportunities for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and preschool-plus children of Gritman Medical Center employees and the local community.

Quality Education and Care

At Charlie Bear’s Child Care, we provide children warm, responsive, individualized care. We partner with parents and families to create a caring circle in which children are secure and nurtured. Our teaching staff applies curriculum and play-based learning activities. Children spend their day in a nurturing, safe and happy environment that promotes natural curiosity and desires.

Accreditation and Licensing

Charlie Bear’s Child Care is licensed and inspected annually by the City of Moscow’s Health and Welfare Department. We comply with all requirements for a licensed child care center.

We strive for excellence according to the professional standards set forth by the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale. We are committed to meeting these national standards of quality education.

In addition to following all state and federal regulations, Charlie Bear’s Child Care participates in the Idaho Stars Quality Program. Although participation is not required, this is one more way we can go above and beyond for the children that attend our daycare.

Our educational program is based on Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale guidelines. This comprehensive program includes many areas that contribute to positive child development. The curriculum includes opportunities for children to make their own choices among various learning areas in the classroom, as well as daily teacher-planned activities in language, math, science, art, music and fine motor and gross motor areas.

Importance of Family

You are encouraged to be part of your child’s day at Charlie Bear’s Child Care. Daily reports and information are provided, along with a Parent Resource Center with books, videos and community updates. Family events are held throughout the year to develop strong relationships among the staff, families and children.

Staff-to-Child Ratio

In compliance with the City of Moscow regulations, the maximum teacher-to-child ratios are as listed:

Children under 2               1:3 Children 2-3                        1:5 Children 3 and older       1:10

We have the opportunity to leverage additional staff during structured learning times so that children receive the attention they need to maximize their learning potential.

Credentials and Education

The teacher in each classroom who plans activities must reflect Idaho’s Early Learning Standards and national standards, have a degree in early childhood education or a related field or have prior experience in early childhood programs. Assistants are also qualified by education or experience to work with young children.

All staff are required to have criminal background checks, child-abuse record clearances and annual health appraisals. Staff members are licensed through the City of Moscow. They are certified in First Aid and CPR, and they receive a minimum of 12 hours in annual service training related to their duties as early childhood educators.

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In Transit: Notes from the Underground

Jun 06 2018.

Spend some time in one of Moscow’s finest museums.

Subterranean commuting might not be anyone’s idea of a good time, but even in a city packing the war-games treasures and priceless bejeweled eggs of the Kremlin Armoury and the colossal Soviet pavilions of the VDNKh , the Metro holds up as one of Moscow’s finest museums. Just avoid rush hour.

The Metro is stunning and provides an unrivaled insight into the city’s psyche, past and present, but it also happens to be the best way to get around. Moscow has Uber, and the Russian version called Yandex Taxi , but also some nasty traffic. Metro trains come around every 90 seconds or so, at a more than 99 percent on-time rate. It’s also reasonably priced, with a single ride at 55 cents (and cheaper in bulk). From history to tickets to rules — official and not — here’s what you need to know to get started.

A Brief Introduction Buying Tickets Know Before You Go (Down) Rules An Easy Tour

A Brief Introduction

Moscow’s Metro was a long time coming. Plans for rapid transit to relieve the city’s beleaguered tram system date back to the Imperial era, but a couple of wars and a revolution held up its development. Stalin revived it as part of his grand plan to modernize the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. The first lines and tunnels were constructed with help from engineers from the London Underground, although Stalin’s secret police decided that they had learned too much about Moscow’s layout and had them arrested on espionage charges and deported.

The beauty of its stations (if not its trains) is well-documented, and certainly no accident. In its illustrious first phases and particularly after the Second World War, the greatest architects of Soviet era were recruited to create gleaming temples celebrating the Revolution, the USSR, and the war triumph. No two stations are exactly alike, and each of the classic showpieces has a theme. There are world-famous shrines to Futurist architecture, a celebration of electricity, tributes to individuals and regions of the former Soviet Union. Each marble slab, mosaic tile, or light fixture was placed with intent, all in service to a station’s aesthetic; each element, f rom the smallest brass ear of corn to a large blood-spattered sword on a World War II mural, is an essential part of the whole.

The Metro is a monument to the Soviet propaganda project it was intended to be when it opened in 1935 with the slogan “Building a Palace for the People”. It brought the grand interiors of Imperial Russia to ordinary Muscovites, celebrated the Soviet Union’s past achievements while promising its citizens a bright Soviet future, and of course, it was a show-piece for the world to witness the might and sophistication of life in the Soviet Union.

It may be a museum, but it’s no relic. U p to nine million people use it daily, more than the London Underground and New York Subway combined. (Along with, at one time, about 20 stray dogs that learned to commute on the Metro.)

In its 80+ year history, the Metro has expanded in phases and fits and starts, in step with the fortunes of Moscow and Russia. Now, partly in preparation for the World Cup 2018, it’s also modernizing. New trains allow passengers to walk the entire length of the train without having to change carriages. The system is becoming more visitor-friendly. (There are helpful stickers on the floor marking out the best selfie spots .) But there’s a price to modernity: it’s phasing out one of its beloved institutions, the escalator attendants. Often they are middle-aged or elderly women—“ escalator grandmas ” in news accounts—who have held the post for decades, sitting in their tiny kiosks, scolding commuters for bad escalator etiquette or even bad posture, or telling jokes . They are slated to be replaced, when at all, by members of the escalator maintenance staff.

For all its achievements, the Metro lags behind Moscow’s above-ground growth, as Russia’s capital sprawls ever outwards, generating some of the world’s worst traffic jams . But since 2011, the Metro has been in the middle of an ambitious and long-overdue enlargement; 60 new stations are opening by 2020. If all goes to plan, the 2011-2020 period will have brought 125 miles of new tracks and over 100 new stations — a 40 percent increase — the fastest and largest expansion phase in any period in the Metro’s history.

Facts: 14 lines Opening hours: 5 a.m-1 a.m. Rush hour(s): 8-10 a.m, 4-8 p.m. Single ride: 55₽ (about 85 cents) Wi-Fi network-wide

Buying Tickets

• Ticket machines have a button to switch to English.
• You can buy specific numbers of rides: 1, 2, 5, 11, 20, or 60. Hold up fingers to show how many rides you want to buy.
• There is also a 90-minute ticket , which gets you 1 trip on the metro plus an unlimited number of transfers on other transport (bus, tram, etc) within 90 minutes.
• Or, you can buy day tickets with unlimited rides: one day (218₽/ US$4), three days (415₽/US$7) or seven days (830₽/US$15). Check the rates here to stay up-to-date.
• If you’re going to be using the Metro regularly over a few days, it’s worth getting a Troika card , a contactless, refillable card you can use on all public transport. Using the Metro is cheaper with one of these: a single ride is 36₽, not 55₽. Buy them and refill them in the Metro stations, and they’re valid for 5 years, so you can keep it for next time. Or, if you have a lot of cash left on it when you leave, you can get it refunded at the Metro Service Centers at Ulitsa 1905 Goda, 25 or at Staraya Basmannaya 20, Building 1.
• You can also buy silicone bracelets and keychains with built-in transport chips that you can use as a Troika card. (A Moscow Metro Fitbit!) So far, you can only get these at the Pushkinskaya metro station Live Helpdesk and souvenir shops in the Mayakovskaya and Trubnaya metro stations. The fare is the same as for the Troika card.
• You can also use Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

Rules, spoken and unspoken

No smoking, no drinking, no filming, no littering. Photography is allowed, although it used to be banned.

Stand to the right on the escalator. Break this rule and you risk the wrath of the legendary escalator attendants. (No shenanigans on the escalators in general.)

Get out of the way. Find an empty corner to hide in when you get off a train and need to stare at your phone. Watch out getting out of the train in general; when your train doors open, people tend to appear from nowhere or from behind ornate marble columns, walking full-speed.

Always offer your seat to elderly ladies (what are you, a monster?).

An Easy Tour

This is no Metro Marathon ( 199 stations in 20 hours ). It’s an easy tour, taking in most—though not all—of the notable stations, the bulk of it going clockwise along the Circle line, with a couple of short detours. These stations are within minutes of one another, and the whole tour should take about 1-2 hours.

Start at Mayakovskaya Metro station , at the corner of Tverskaya and Garden Ring,  Triumfalnaya Square, Moskva, Russia, 125047.

1. Mayakovskaya.  Named for Russian Futurist Movement poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and an attempt to bring to life the future he imagined in his poems. (The Futurist Movement, natch, was all about a rejecting the past and celebrating all things speed, industry, modern machines, youth, modernity.) The result: an Art Deco masterpiece that won the National Grand Prix for architecture at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. It’s all smooth, rounded shine and light, and gentle arches supported by columns of dark pink marble and stainless aircraft steel. Each of its 34 ceiling niches has a mosaic. During World War II, the station was used as an air-raid shelter and, at one point, a bunker for Stalin. He gave a subdued but rousing speech here in Nov. 6, 1941 as the Nazis bombed the city above.

Take the 3/Green line one station to:

2. Belorusskaya. Opened in 1952, named after the connected Belarussky Rail Terminal, which runs trains between Moscow and Belarus. This is a light marble affair with a white, cake-like ceiling, lined with Belorussian patterns and 12 Florentine ceiling mosaics depicting life in Belarussia when it was built.

Transfer onto the 1/Brown line. Then, one stop (clockwise) t o:

3. Novoslobodskaya.  This station was designed around the stained-glass panels, which were made in Latvia, because Alexey Dushkin, the Soviet starchitect who dreamed it up (and also designed Mayakovskaya station) couldn’t find the glass and craft locally. The stained glass is the same used for Riga’s Cathedral, and the panels feature plants, flowers, members of the Soviet intelligentsia (musician, artist, architect) and geometric shapes.

Go two stops east on the 1/Circle line to:

4. Komsomolskaya. Named after the Komsomol, or the Young Communist League, this might just be peak Stalin Metro style. Underneath the hub for three regional railways, it was intended to be a grand gateway to Moscow and is today its busiest station. It has chandeliers; a yellow ceiling with Baroque embellishments; and in the main hall, a colossal red star overlaid on golden, shimmering tiles. Designer Alexey Shchusev designed it as an homage to the speech Stalin gave at Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941, in which he invoked Russia’s illustrious military leaders as a pep talk to Soviet soldiers through the first catastrophic year of the war.   The station’s eight large mosaics are of the leaders referenced in the speech, such as Alexander Nevsky, a 13th-century prince and military commander who bested German and Swedish invading armies.

One more stop clockwise to Kurskaya station,  and change onto the 3/Blue  line, and go one stop to:

5. Baumanskaya.   Opened in 1944. Named for the Bolshevik Revolutionary Nikolai Bauman , whose monument and namesake district are aboveground here. Though he seemed like a nasty piece of work (he apparently once publicly mocked a woman he had impregnated, who later hung herself), he became a Revolutionary martyr when he was killed in 1905 in a skirmish with a monarchist, who hit him on the head with part of a steel pipe. The station is in Art Deco style with atmospherically dim lighting, and a series of bronze sculptures of soldiers and homefront heroes during the War. At one end, there is a large mosaic portrait of Lenin.

Stay on that train direction one more east to:

6. Elektrozavodskaya. As you may have guessed from the name, this station is the Metro’s tribute to all thing electrical, built in 1944 and named after a nearby lightbulb factory. It has marble bas-relief sculptures of important figures in electrical engineering, and others illustrating the Soviet Union’s war-time struggles at home. The ceiling’s recurring rows of circular lamps give the station’s main tunnel a comforting glow, and a pleasing visual effect.

Double back two stops to Kurskaya station , and change back to the 1/Circle line. Sit tight for six stations to:

7. Kiyevskaya. This was the last station on the Circle line to be built, in 1954, completed under Nikita Khrushchev’ s guidance, as a tribute to his homeland, Ukraine. Its three large station halls feature images celebrating Ukraine’s contributions to the Soviet Union and Russo-Ukrainian unity, depicting musicians, textile-working, soldiers, farmers. (One hall has frescoes, one mosaics, and the third murals.) Shortly after it was completed, Khrushchev condemned the architectural excesses and unnecessary luxury of the Stalin era, which ushered in an epoch of more austere Metro stations. According to the legend at least, he timed the policy in part to ensure no Metro station built after could outshine Kiyevskaya.

Change to the 3/Blue line and go one stop west.

8. Park Pobedy. This is the deepest station on the Metro, with one of the world’s longest escalators, at 413 feet. If you stand still, the escalator ride to the surface takes about three minutes .) Opened in 2003 at Victory Park, the station celebrates two of Russia’s great military victories. Each end has a mural by Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who also designed the “ Good Defeats Evil ” statue at the UN headquarters in New York. One mural depicts the Russian generals’ victory over the French in 1812 and the other, the German surrender of 1945. The latter is particularly striking; equal parts dramatic, triumphant, and gruesome. To the side, Red Army soldiers trample Nazi flags, and if you look closely there’s some blood spatter among the detail. Still, the biggest impressions here are the marble shine of the chessboard floor pattern and the pleasingly geometric effect if you view from one end to the other.

Keep going one more stop west to:

9. Slavyansky Bulvar.  One of the Metro’s youngest stations, it opened in 2008. With far higher ceilings than many other stations—which tend to have covered central tunnels on the platforms—it has an “open-air” feel (or as close to it as you can get, one hundred feet under). It’s an homage to French architect Hector Guimard, he of the Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris M é tro, and that’s precisely what this looks like: A Moscow homage to the Paris M é tro, with an additional forest theme. A Cyrillic twist on Guimard’s Metro-style lettering over the benches, furnished with t rees and branch motifs, including creeping vines as towering lamp-posts.

Stay on the 3/Blue line and double back four stations to:

10. Arbatskaya. Its first iteration, Arbatskaya-Smolenskaya station, was damaged by German bombs in 1941. It was rebuilt in 1953, and designed to double as a bomb shelter in the event of nuclear war, although unusually for stations built in the post-war phase, this one doesn’t have a war theme. It may also be one of the system’s most elegant: Baroque, but toned down a little, with red marble floors and white ceilings with gilded bronze c handeliers.

Jump back on the 3/Blue line  in the same direction and take it one more stop:

11. Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square). Opened in 1938, and serving Red Square and the Kremlin . Its renowned central hall has marble columns flanked by 76 bronze statues of Soviet heroes: soldiers, students, farmers, athletes, writers, parents. Some of these statues’ appendages have a yellow sheen from decades of Moscow’s commuters rubbing them for good luck. Among the most popular for a superstitious walk-by rub: the snout of a frontier guard’s dog, a soldier’s gun (where the touch of millions of human hands have tapered the gun barrel into a fine, pointy blade), a baby’s foot, and a woman’s knee. (A brass rooster also sports the telltale gold sheen, though I am told that rubbing the rooster is thought to bring bad luck. )

Now take the escalator up, and get some fresh air.

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