Nurturing Our Under Two Year Olds

A spacious, safe environment for babies and early toddlers, to experience sights, sounds and textures.

Qualified care staff provide cuddles and encouragement while introducing songs, musical instruments, story time, books, puzzles, craft and construction activities.

Designed especially for our youngest children during this early stage of physical, motor and sensory development.

The space provides stimulation for the most inquisitive and ardent young explorer, carefully and lovingly supervised, to ensure safety while encouraging self-confidence and imagination.

This well-equipped, bright room includes sand and water play facilities.

A daily journal is kept for each child to record all activities and essential information for parents, e.g. feeds, changes, sleeps, etc.

All our children are given positive guidance and encouragement to develop at their own pace.

We operate a 1:3 staff ratio to children in our Under Two’s Room.

Our Curriculum

  • The curriculum at ABC is tailored to suit each child, building on individual interests and learning step by step.

    Our inclusive, highly skilled and experienced team celebrates individual development and creativity.

    We strongly believe that every child can thrive and that there should be no limits to learning opportunities.

    Our commitment to all children who attend our nursery is to provide a nurturing and stimulating environment where their Individual needs are met by highly skilled passionate staff.

    Children will feel happy, valued and safe, enabling them to have confidence to further explore the world in which they live in.

  • A Unique Child – Every child is a competent learner from birth, who can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.

    Positive Relationships – Children learn to be strong and independent from a base of loving & secure relationships with parents and/or key person.

    Enabling Environment – The environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning.

    Learning & Development – Children develop and learn at different rates and all areas of learning and development are equally important and inter-connected.

    The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets standards for the learning, development, and care of children from birth to 5 years of age.

    We fully embrace the EYFS standards and implement our play based educational activities using the EYFS Curriculum.

    The curriculum focuses on seven areas of learning, which we use in the planning of children‘s activities, from six months up to five years old;

    Prime Areas that underpin everything in early years:

    • Communication and language

    • Physical development

    • Personal, social, and emotional development

    Specific Areas help children to strengthen and apply the prime areas:

    • Literacy

    • Mathematics

    • Understanding the world

    • Expressive arts and design

    Children in our Foundation Stage and Pre-School rooms benefit from the same curriculum as children attending an LEA nursery school and are entitled to Nursery Education Funding from 3 years old, depending on their date of birth.

  • We have two secure and substantial outdoor play areas. One outdoor area is focused on the under 2’s and the other is dedicated to 2-5yr olds.

    Each dedicated area is suitably equipped with play apparatus and toys to assist in physical development, (such as co-ordination and balance), spatial awareness and risk assessment. We utilise our resources to encourage learning co-operation, communication skills and social development.

    Spacious and carefully supervised, our outdoor play areas have safety surfaces, soft woodchip, sand, tarmac, wooded and garden areas. The entire space is appropriate for interesting and stimulating outdoor play – ideal for all year-round outdoor activity, when we take the entire curriculum outdoors.

  • While each age group have their own activity room, interaction between babies, toddlers and infants occurs regularly to stimulate a homely environment and understanding atmosphere. This approach proves invaluable to the personal development of each age group. It is also a means of developing a child’s confidence and supports their transition to the next care room.

  • All our meals are freshly prepared each day in the nursery kitchen, by our fully qualified and experienced chef. We are fortunate to have an additional room designated solely for dining.

    We offer well balanced, nutritious meals. Every meal is based on the healthy plate guidelines, containing protein, fibre and carbohydrate.

    Meals are served in our dedicated dining room, which encourages children to share in the social occasion of eating together, to be independent and prepare for school.

    We continually introduce different flavours, to develop and broaden children’s palettes and experience of other cultures.

    Our full day menu includes a healthy mid-morning and afternoon snack, which together with meals provide the minimum five daily recommended portions of fruit and vegetables. Meals are well-balanced, containing all the vital elements for a healthy diet, inc. protein, carbohydrate, fibre, vitamins, etc. juice & fresh water is always available.

    Food Standards Agency ‘5 Stars’ awarded for hygiene standards.

    We fully cater for special diets on medical, cultural or religious grounds.

  • Irrespective of colour, creed, race, gender or disability, we strongly promote tolerance and understanding of the many varied and rich differences in our society, through positive imagery, discussion, role-play, visits and celebration.