Registrations
New places only open in our baby room so we cannot take registrations for older children. Our waiting list is now currently 12-18 months long and initially goes by your registration date.
Rooms
On the top floor we have one baby room for children aged 6 months to approximately 18 months.
On the middle floor this is our pre-toddler room for a rough age group of 15 months to 2 years old.
On the ground floor we have our toddler room and our preschool room both with direct access to the garden so they can use it out of their set times when they want to.
We believe that our children should be able to move on to the older rooms as soon as they are ready rather than it being led merely by their age, otherwise it can lead them to regressing in their behaviour and not being able to reach
their full potential of learning and having fun with peers of the same abilities.
However this can make it difficult to guarantee you a place with us further than 3 months ahead of time as we can't predict their readiness
beyond this. Due to this uncertainty of securing a place with us sooner we do not charge a registration fee and won't ask for a deposit until we can guarantee you a set start date.
So please have back up options. Other
nurseries have rigid rules to only follow the date of births to make their waiting lists easier to handle but we don’t agree with this; especially when a younger sibling is nearly always more advanced than its peers thanks to observing
the older sibling at home.
Honestly if a child wasn't ready to be moved, the staff from both rooms would protest and we would never upset a child by moving them by force. Our decisions are always geared by the children.
A member of staff from their room would act as the parent did in settling them in to the new room; but quite often this isn’t needed as the child will recognise children who have moved down before them and are familiar with the
rooms and staff from walking through there every day to get to the garden.
Quite often they almost settle themselves which is why we may only tell you with short notice as we’re following their lead! Each room has an hour
each assigned to the garden in the morning and the afternoon, but in the colder weather we would shorten this where needed but still go out for fresh air
Baby Rooms
We have two baby rooms, one which accommodates 18 babies, and another that has 12 babies, both with light and airy nappy changing facilities so there are no musty lingering smells!
Pre-toddler/ Toddler rooms:
We have two rooms for this age group with direct access to the garden so they can use it outside of their set times. Transition to these rooms is very easy for the older babies (near toddlers
approximately 16 months upwards) as they walk through these rooms each morning and afternoon for their garden time.