Skip to content We are a 60-place nursery. Places are available for babies and children from 3 months to 5 years. Funded 2-, 3-, and 4-year-old places available as well as the option to access further hours between 8 am & 6.00 pm. We pride ourselves in delivering excellent care and early education with the children at the centre of everything that we do. Our promise is to support every child as individuals.
We treat every child as an individual and celebrate lots of different diverse celebrations to ensure all children are being treated equally.
We have 3 rooms in nursery and they are:
aged 6 months to 2 years = 12 children in total
aged 2 years to 3 years = 15 children in total
aged 3 years to 5 years = 16 children in total
Playing outdoors allows children to develop self-confidence, independence and self-esteem. They also become aware of limits, boundaries and challenge in their play. When children are used to playing outdoors, they are more likely to: try new activities. Here at Blue Orkids we provide two outdoor areas. One for our babies and one for our toddlers and pre-schoolers. We aim to provide a stimulating outdoor learning experience through exploring our natural areas, going for walks in our local community, searching for bugs and of course lots of physical activities including running, climbing, obstacle courses and outdoor games
We have two sections one for our Babies and one for our Toddler and Pre-School to share. The garden is very spacious to enable the children to free play among themselves. We do spend a lot of our time outside as children love to be able to be themselves and have a much wider space for them to be able to use their gross motor skills such as making their own obstacle course.
When the weather is lovely we do take the children out for little walks around the village, they put on their little high vis jackets, either in a push chair or walk on reins. We discuss about the environment and what we see.
We operate a key person system in the nursery where each child has a key person. The key person observes their key child regularly and completes assessments, which helps to identify any support that the child may need. We try to identify children with SEN as early as possible. We know when children need help if:
We have a set menu of which we have a nursery chef who cooks onsite. He provides us with snacks in the morning, lunch at 12pm, afternoon snack and then tea. We have a wide variety of meals her such as:
Children from 1-4 years old need to eat well to establish good eating patterns, ensure they grow and develop appropriately, to protect their teeth and to ensure they arrive in school at a healthy body weight able to enjoy a variety of minimally processed foods. At Blue Orkids we aim to support healthy eating by offering lots of fruit and vegetables, providing delicious home-cooked and nutritious meals and of course providing lots of learning opportunities around healthy eating and looking after ourselves
When a new child is starting with us we believe that the settle in sessions are so important for not only the child but for the parent/carers. We offer at first 3 settle sessions. The first one we ask the parent/carers to stay with their child for an hour then the next 2 sessions are longer but with less time with the parent/carer in the room so then the child and the parent/carer can then start to feel safe and secure with the educators in the room. If we feel the child needs more time then of cause this is something we can do.
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