Caterpillar room
In our baby/toddler room, we care for children from birth to two years old. This room is situated downstairs and is specifically designed for the care of babies and toddlers. This rooms holds up to nine children at any one time, with three members of staff. It has a real homely atmosphere. Our qualified and experienced staff incorporate the Early years foundation stage, which is the most recent curriculum designed to provide each child with the individual care and attention that they need to develop to their full potential. We have age appropriate toys and equipment, along with cots, highchairs, baby bouncers, and an area for sensory exploration. Our activities and equipment are provided in a way which offers all children a certain level of freedom and choice.
We ask that you provide your child with Nappies, Wipes, any creams that you may want us to apply and formula/breast milk. If you are breast feeding, you are more than welcome to come into nursery for feeding times if you wish.
Each day, your child’s key person will complete their daily diary, providing you with information about your child’s day.
EG: Details of each nappy change, Meal times, sleep times and activities they have taken part in.
As mentioned, the age range in this room is 0-2 year; once your child reaches two years old, we will assess whether or not they are ready for the next group along. If so, we would arrange gradual visits to ensure a smooth and comfortable transition.
Introduction
Here at Jitterbugz, we pride ourselves on providing your little ones with the highest quality of care and education in a small, friendly "home from home" environment. Our dedicated and loving team have a unique ability to make you as parents and your child feel totally at ease and happy from the moment you step inside our little nursery.
As a childcare provider, we feel it is important that all of the children in our care have the opportunity to experience a varied and wide curriculum.
Children learn a great deal within their first years of life, so we aim to give them the best start by providing a caring, fun and stimulating early years environment.
Below are summaries of the different groups that we have within our nursery.
Our Over 2's Group benefits from 2 rooms which are linked together
The Butterfly room.
In this room , the children can engage in all seven areas of development.
The adjoining rooms are facilitated to ensure that children have access to a continuous
provision at all times of the day.
The areas of learning are as follows;
Creative area, where children can engage in all types of expressive art and design.
Role play and small world, to encourage imagination and understanding the world.
Maths area, to develop each child's ability to problem solve, count, understand number
shape and measure.
Writing area and book area both these areas will promote literacy, language and early
reading skills.
Messy area, to engage children in malleable materials and experiment with different
textures and medias.
Construction area, this area develops your child's fine manipulative and gross motor
skills, both of which will promote good physical skills.
We are very interested in the Reggio Amelia approach and Montessori approach and we are highlyinfluenced by both. All activities are planned for each individual child following in the moment planning,
We use the EYFS curriculum and base each focussed
activity around the Childs' interests and needs.
upstairs have their own children's bathroom with changing facilities. We work alongside
the child’s needs and your wishes to help them learn to use the toilet and to care for
themselves by washing their own hands and brushing their teeth. We provide the tooth
brush and the paste.
we promote independent self care by encouraging children to use drink cups and pour
their own water/milk of their own choice through put the day, we provide both jugs and
cups which are kept on a table at children's level.
Outdoor provision
We have newly refurbished all weather outdoor area, which is completely child friendly and
enabled for all ages and stages of development.
We regularly venture out to our local park and make visits to different places in our community.
Before and after school provision/ Holiday club.
We are pleased to announce that as of Septemebr 2019 we now offer wrap around care for
children who attend schools in our local community. Thsi includes drop off and pick up at
St. Mary's. In addition to this we can also care for children throughout the
school holidays.
