Hatching Dragons Barbican

Our Barbican nursery is the perfect environment for children to grow and learn, with our global approach which focuses on inclusion, diversity and acceptance, whilst developing language skills in two of the worlds most important languages, English and Mandarin.
You cannot find a nursery more centrally located than our City nursery, which is in in the middle of London.
At our Barbican nursery, we are open from 8:00 to 18:30, 51 weeks of the year.
Our curriculum is engaging, dynamic and focused on the educational needs of our children.
We use both English and Mandarin to teach, so that children can develop proficiency in both languages.
We use songs, rhymes and fun to help develop their understanding of language and the world around them.
We aim to help children in this group speak up to 20 words in either Chinese and English and to fine-tune their basic motor control skills, in our sensory-rich environment.
Our Baby Dragons are exploring everything around them, grasping objects and items, learning to walk and beginning to understand their environment and how to control it.
We help them to develop self-awareness, and instil an understanding of risk.
Blue Dragons are advancing to more academic areas of development, focusing on language and numeracy in guided activities.
Our toddlers are able to recite numbers in sequence and in writing and they have the most rapid acquisition and verbalisation of vocabulary, able to understand or speak anywhere between 250-1000 words in English or Chinese.
Our Dragon Flight children are our oldest and most advanced, who are preparing to enter primary school.
They have also developed numeracy skills and are able to count in sequence and recognise numerals in Chinese and English beyond 20.
We aim for each child to leaves us well balanced, confident and with fantastic social skills.