Learning & care
Premises and equipment
Purpose-built spaces and carefully chosen resources that help children play, rest, explore and grow.
Our nurseries operate in first-class, purpose-built accommodation. Every space has been designed to our own specifications with pre-school children as the focus.
Our building
- Bright and spacious classrooms
- Sleep and quiet spaces
- A large kitchen where we cook our own nutritious hot meals and snacks
- Laundry facilities
- Spacious, specialist landscaped gardens with hard and soft play areas, baby play areas with safety surfaces, and covered outdoor spaces for wet days
- CCTV and biometric fingerprint access systems
- Direct access to children’s toilets from classrooms
- Low-level windows for easy views outside
- Additional private and larger spaces available as required
Selecting equipment and toys
When purchasing equipment, we choose resources that give children opportunities—with adult help—to develop new skills and concepts through play and exploration.
- Appropriate for the ages and stages of the children
- Challenging physical, social, personal and intellectual skills
- Featuring positive images of people of different genders, ethnicities, cultures and abilities
- Including natural, versatile materials that encourage open-ended creativity and problem-solving
- Supporting individual potential and progress towards learning outcomes
- Conforming to relevant safety regulations and being sound and well made
Resources children can explore
Some activities are selected daily to introduce fresh interest, while familiar favourites remain consistently available.
- Sand and water
- A multicultural home corner
- Books, puzzles and games of varying difficulty
- Climbing apparatus and a tricycle track
- Blocks, Duplo, Stickle Bricks and other construction materials
- Musical instruments
- Computer equipment used to develop early digital skills
- Paint, crayons and other mark-making tools
- Puppets
- Small-world play equipment