Bramble House Day Nursery

Activities: Children enjoy carefully dipping a wand in liquid, then lifting it to blow bubbles. Toddlers learn to make play dough and explore sticks of spaghetti in the role-play area. Older children enjoy mixing pasta, flowers and leaves in the outdoor area.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff promote children's physical development well and understand the importance of this.

Communication: They use online applications to find out about their child's day and talk to their child's key person regularly at collection times.

Community Building: Parents speak very highly of the nursery and of the relationships with the manager and staff.

Programs and Resources: The manager works quickly to ensure children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) receive the support they need.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Parents describe the setting as 'feeling like home'. Staff and children wear cosy slippers in the nursery which adds to the relaxed feeling.

Safeguarding Training: Managers and staff have a strong knowledge of how to safeguard children effectively.

Play and Learning Integration: Older children learn to dress and undress from all-in-one suits and wellington boots, ready to go outside. They actively engage in rugby-coaching sessions and eagerly wait, then take turns, moving along a course.

Child Safety Management: Staff teach children about appropriate choices in a positive and supportive manner.

Children's Safety and Security: Children are happy and feel safe with the familiar adults around them.

Teaching Personal Safety: Staff remind children not to walk backwards down a corridor, as they will not see where they are going and might bump their head. This supports children in understanding the risks and learning about why it is important to keep themselves safe.

Happiness and Settling: Children meet familiar staff members as they arrive to enter the nursery in the morning. They explore a wide array of activities throughout their day and play calmly alongside their friends.