Merchant Square Day Nursery

Activities: Children engage in activities like role play, interacting with real objects such as pine cones, shells, and pebbles.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children’s early communication, language, and writing skills are progressing well; staff provide opportunities for mark-making and storytelling.

Communication: Manager organizes parent workshops, and newsletters provide information on activities to try at home.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Parents say staff always greet them with a 'big smile.'

Safeguarding Training: Staff access safeguarding and wider child protection training to develop their knowledge to a good level.

Play and Learning Integration: Children benefit from daily trips outdoors to help promote their physical development and sense of identity within their local community.

Diversity Management: Staff very successfully encourage children to recognize emotions and feelings, supporting diverse learning experiences.

Child Safety Management: Staff use risk assessments to identify safety issues effectively, both on the premises and prior to outings.

Children's Safety and Security: Children are emotionally secure and demonstrate that they feel safe.

Teaching Personal Safety: Staff practise evacuation procedures regularly to teach children what to do in an emergency.

Happiness and Settling: Children are enthusiastic and motivated learners, showing they are happy and settled.

Nutritional Menu: They enjoy a wide variety of freshly prepared meals each day.