Babies

The most loving, caring staff are chosen for our cosy baby room of only 6-12 places, safely away from more active children.  One will be assigned as your key worker caring for your baby and form a close partnership with you, telling you all about your baby’s day with us, including notes and photos recorded on a Tablet and shared with you through a secure online portal. The team are well-trained in baby care, and make sure that your baby has the close personal attention and fun activities throughout the day that really help early development, looking after a maximum of 2-3 babies each. Peaceful, closely supervised sleep is provided in cots or on special floor cushions.

Rooms and carpets are kept clean and fresh, and toys and furniture kept hygienic and replaced regularly.
Parents are welcome to visit at any time of day, and can view their children in the room without being seen, to be sure they are happily settling in.

Toddlers

We work with parents to help your child with toilet training around age 2, develop early communication and social skills, independence and early learning. Safety and good hygiene is paramount throughout the nursery.

A ‘key person’ is designated for your child, to provide a constant contact for both of you. Observations and assessments of your child’s development are made frequently, from which activities are planned to keep your child’s interest and help move on to the next stage, following the Department of Education’s Early Years Foundation Stage guidance.

Parents are welcome to visit at any time of day, and can view their children in the room without being seen to be sure they are settling in, and check notes and photos online of your child’s activities today in your secure portal.

Healthy food is freshly prepared on the premises by our Chef, with a varied menu that has won the highest Platinum level of Healthy Eating Platinum Awards, at all of our nurseries.

Pre-School

Our Pre-School Nursery curriculum is based on the DFES Foundation Stage to link directly to school Reception, but unlike school nursery classes we have a very high 1:8 staff ratio, so we can give a lot of personal attention to every child to develop to their best potential at an early age in all areas, while really enjoying all the fun early-learning activities.

Our wide range of fun educational activities are ideal for engaging every child’s interest and learning, in preparation for a confident and successful start at school. Our activity curriculum has been highly praised in Ofsted inspections – your child will follow an individual learning programme which fully meets all areas of learning and development set out by the Department for Education, while learning to play and work together too.

The rooms are fun and attractive, and all facilities and furniture are specially designed for children.

Outings are also made regularly to learn about the wider environment, we celebrate festivals and we have many seasonal projects, like growing vegetables in our gardens and hatching butterflies.

Parents are invited in occasionally for activity sessions, to have fun here with your children first-hand & chat with the team.  This may get messy!

Large gardens for many outdoor activities

Our large gardens have lawns, paths,  rubber-surfaced areas, bike-riding areas, climbing frames, sandpit, a sensory garden and forest school,  to stretch muscles and imagination in the fresh air!

We have separate area for each age group with activities they find most fun, with babies and toddlers enjoying the fresh air and toys away from faster moving children.

Soft Play room

We often provide a large indoor ‘soft play’ room for each age group to take turns running, jumping and tumbling safely … while staying warm and dry.

Extra activities & Sensory Room

For even greater variety and early learning for your child, we also bring in popular extra activities free of charge. These often include Yoga for Tots, Music and Dance, early French language and the Exotic Pet Zoo.

We also have a very popular Sensory Room in each nursery, which engages all the childrens’ senses in a magical calming environment!

Parents information during the day

Keep in touch and enjoy your child’s day with us using our highly rated ‘Famly App’, where we share photos of your child’s activities daily, child development reports, invoices, messages back and forth direct to your keyworker, and you can even authorise relatives to have access too.

 

Opening times and fees

Open 7.30am – 6.00pm Monday to Friday.  Fees include tasty morning and afternoon snacks and healthy 2-course lunch, all freshly prepared and cooked on the premises, all resources and consumables, and extra-curricular activities. We offer mornings, afternoons, short school days or full days plus a number of term-time places.  Our fees from April 2026 are as follows;

Full day fees                      £72.50

Short day  08.00-15.30     £65.50

Morning    08.00-13.15      £43.00

Afternoon 13.15-18.00      £43.00

Extra hours                         £8.50/hr

Term-time places are also normally available, please enquire for rates and availability.

 

Government funded childcare hours

If you’re a working family in England, or a sole parent working in a one-parent family, and you or your partner are earning at least £183/week (eg 16 hours at national minimum wage) but less than £100k/year  then you are eligible to apply for up to 30 hours per week funded for children aged 9 months to 4 years

This covers basic childcare and EYFS for 38 weeks of term-time, or spread over 52 weeks if you prefer.  In addition we provide the following for premium care and early learning at Earlyworld;

 

Food fee per day

For mid-am snack, healthy 2-course cooked lunch, mid-pm snack, tea

Full day   Short Day  AM         PM

£9.00      £7.00          £5.00    £5.00

 

Non-food extra services per day

Your EYFS funding only covers basic childcare and EYFS, this fee covers the enhanced provision at Earlyworld; award-winning FAMLY app for parent info and early learning, creams and toiletries, enhanced early learning and art consumables, sensory/soft play, cookery, Diddi Dance, foreign language, animal man, library, monthly themed activities, extensive garden resources for each age group, balance equipment and bikes & local trips.

Full day   Short Day   AM         PM

£4.50         £4.00       £3.50      £3.50

 

For a basic funded-only EYFS session at times which avoid these activities and meals, please ask.

 

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