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Our nursery environment and facilities enable your child to explore, develop and learn. Our Baby, Toddler and Preschool spaces are specially designed and equipped for the children’s different age groups. You’ll see many familiar homely items such as bookcases, tables, chairs, comfy cushions and sofas, just smaller than you are used to! 

Our core resources, enriching toys, games and creative materials are always at hand for your child to explore, and it’s not unusual for our rooms to become unique adventure spaces where your child’s imagination can run free!

And it doesn’t end there… our learning environments continue outside into our lovely garden areas, full of equipment and resources to support your child’s play and learning outdoors.

Babies Environment

Our mobile and non-mobile babies benefit from a large, bright, open plan day room, well equipped with the latest in sensory equipment to test their senses and encourage development.

As babies spend a lot of time sleeping at this early age, we provide a dedicated sleep room. We constantly monitor the room temperature in the day nursery to ensure the babies are comfortable at all times.

Your baby will be cared for by all of our lovely Babies team, and your baby’s key person will be the lead practitioner in their personal care and development.

Toddlers Environment

When your child moves up a stage, their day is structured around their changing interests. Our nursery equipment has been carefully selected, allowing your child to discover at their individual level of understanding.

The room focuses on the primary areas of the ‘Early Years Foundation Stage’ framework and encourages learning through play. We have created various dedicated areas offering different activities.

The ‘Story Corner’ where children can sit in a group and listen to stories, sand and water play area, a construction area to develop coordination and a messy play area to encourage creativity and bring ideas to life.

Toddlers benefit from a staffing ratio of one member of staff looking after no more than four children and supervised access to our fantastic garden.

As this is the time when the majority of children start ‘toilet training’, this area is equipped with brightly decorated children’s toilets, encouraging independence.

Preschool Environment

Preschool children also follow the ‘Early Years Foundation Stage’. We guide and nurture them as individuals to develop the skills, independence and confidence they need for their next step to primary school.

Through our observations of children learning through play, we are able to introduce adult led activities that follow the interest of individual children, linking them to the seven areas of learning:

⦁ communication and language
⦁ physical development
⦁ personal social and emotional development
⦁ literacy
⦁ mathematics
⦁ understanding of the world
⦁ expressive arts and design

The children have open access to the garden every day (free flow) from their room and complete a lot of their daily activities outside through choice. The garden also reflect the areas of learning and allows problem solving on a grander scale.

Outdoor Spaces and Trips

In our safe and secure garden spaces, the children have lots of fun every day with exciting equipment to use, including climbing frames, slides, bikes and scooters, and natural areas with trees, plants and soil.  We are developing our organic growing area where the children can grow their own fruit and vegetables to eat in the nursery, and learn about how to care for the natural environment.

All our children have the opportunity to take part in educational trips in the local community, whether it be to the local shops or places of interest. Every trip is risk assessed and staff:children ratios are strictly adhered to, ensuring your child is always safe.  We also invite local businesses and the emergency services to come in and talk to the children about their jobs, safety awareness and their community.

If you would like to come in for a visit, please get in touch.

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Nutrition

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Settling In

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Curriculum

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Meet the Team

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