Our Rooms
All our children move from room to room throughout the nursery, but each age group has its own base room where children spend time with their Keyworker.
Bathrooms
There are two children’s bathroom areas – one upstairs and one downstairs. These are fitted with small toilets and basins, and everything is within reach to encourage independence.
Research Area
This is situated in a special, quiet area on the landing. All our computers feature touch screen technology.
Garden Area
Our large, safely walled garden is perfect for all kinds of play activities. There’s a sandpit, a water play area, climbing and balancing equipment, wheelie toys, a large new playhouse and all kinds of opportunities to explore the great outdoors – whether it’s searching for mini-beasts, growing plants and vegetables, feeding the squirrels or running races in the fresh air.
Our ‘soft to touch’ artificial grass means the lawn can be used by all ages all year round – with no more scraped knees! We also have specific shady areas for when the sun is strong.
Several age groups may go out into the garden together, enabling siblings to play together. Children are closely supervised by our staff at all times.
Poppy Room
This bright ground floor room is the perfect place for stimulating language development and role play. With sensory toys, puzzles, vehicles, a book area and a welcoming cosy area for the babies to relax and snuggle into the soft blankets and cushions, members of staff encourage your child’s early speech, supporting self-expression in all kinds of exciting ways.
It’s a base room for under-twos, and also a place for meals and snacks. There’s a separate kitchen for sterilising and liquidising.
At the far end of Poppy there’s a quiet darkened area for those all-important nap times. We’ll ask about your child’s nap routines and follow these during the nursery day.
Daisy Room
Daisy is also one of our ‘messy’ rooms, with plenty of opportunity to have fun with paints, water, jelly and lots of other materials. As our smallest room it is used for quiet, pre-school activities and for cooking as it is next door to the kitchen.
After lunch it is the ‘awake’ room for our under 3’s and you may find a train set laid out, role play games going on, playdough being moulded, or a child on a practitioner’s lap having a story read as he/she finishes waking up after their sleep.
Buttercup Room
Situated on the first floor, Buttercup is the base room for our ‘Cats’, the two-year-olds, to start their day at nursery. There’s plenty of stimulus for physical activities and role play, with construction toys, train sets, a large dolls house and garage, puzzles, books, dressing up clothes and a large cosy area where the children can chat with friends or have a quiet time.
After lunch, Buttercup becomes our sleep room for after-lunch naps. All our toddlers, most of our 2 year olds and some of the 3 year olds need a rest/sleep during the day. This room is darkened by dropping the blinds, each child lies on a low ‘camp type’ bed with a clean pillow and is gently soothed to sleep by the practitioners with quiet music in the background. Any comforters associated with sleep can be given, e.g. teddy, bunny, muslin, taggy, to help the child drop off to sleep.
Once the children are sleeping, one member of staff remains with them until all the children are awake. Once awake, the children return to the other playrooms where games and activities are continuing.
Lavender Room
On the first floor, Lavender is the base room for our ‘Tigers’, the 3 and 4 year olds. It has the look of an Early Years classroom, with a large creative area, a literacy area, a maths area and a book corner. There are construction toys, magnets, puzzles, table top games and pegs to encourage the fine motor skills required to prepare children for writing, while encouraging their imagination and creative skills.
In this room, the children are encouraged to serve themselves at snack times, helping to cut their fruit and spread their bread or crackers. At lunch time the tables are set for 4 or 5 children with vases of flowers and one child will collect the plates and cutlery for the whole table – good early maths skills. The meals are brought up in serving dishes for the children to help themselves, under the guidance of the staff so no one child can, for example, clear the dish of roast potatoes! The children also pour their own water into their glasses and clear the tables – independence is strongly encouraged in this age group.
