At Little Green Day Nursery, we have two outdoor environments which we fully utilise. Our all-weather surfaced area provides opportunities to ride on bikes and scooters, play with balls and hoops, explore the builders yard, and play a variety of games. In our natural garden we promote exploration of the natural environment – the children can climb and slide, hide in the trees, dig, den build, be creative with the crates, planks of wood and tyres, explore the mud kitchen and generally investigate and experiment. We make full use of our explorer’s box which is full of magnifying glasses, trowels, tweezers, and bug containers for all the creatures they are sure to find hiding under our logs!

We pride ourselves on excellent communication at Little Green Day Nursery. Our vision is to engage all parents in their child’s nursery journey and achieve the best outcomes through meaningful partnership with parents.

Parents have online access to “parent zone” – this is our app which connects with the nursery software we use. By regularly accessing parent zone parents can track their child’s progress at nursery, view activities their child has been doing to promote their development and chat to their child about them. We encourage parents to add their own comments and we love to hear about home life, any new skills your child is mastering and have an insight in to what your family has been doing together. Parents can share their own photos and videos on parent zone and the keyperson will be able to use these to follow their key child’s current interests.

Drop off and collection times are also a good time to share information about your child. On collection we will share information with you about their busy day with us. Our youngest children in our caterpillar room also have a daily diary added to parent zone to keep you informed about care routines including meals, bottles, sleep times, and nappy changes.

Each term we track your child’s progress, and this can also be viewed through parent zone. Twice a year your child’s key person will invite you to meet and discuss your child’s learning journey and their time at nursery. This is a great opportunity to discuss your child’s progress in more detail, ask any questions you may have, share ideas, and current interests and look at ways to work together to fully support your child’s development. Staff are always on hand and happy to discuss your child’s progress at any time should you have any concerns.

All the staff at Little Green Day Nursery go through a rigorous recruitment process and they all have ongoing checks through the Disclosure and Barring System (DBS). References are obtained to ensure their suitability to work as part of the Little Green Day Nursery team. All staff undertake a full continuous professional development programme which includes a full paediatric first aid qualification, safeguarding, health and safety training specific to early years, food safety and food allergy training. Our team participate in ongoing training throughout the year.