Our Rooms

We’re proud of our Baby room. In this space we endeavour to achieve the highest of standards through the provision of a safe, stimulating and happy atmosphere. With a high ratio of staff to children and a good balance of care and understanding, we are confident your child will settle in fast. We want your children to enjoy their time with us and for you, as a family to feel at home with our team. Over time you will get to know and develop confidence in our staff members.

Throughout their day children explore through heuristic play with the open ended equipment provided. Our exciting learning environment also includes access to messy play activities such as Baked Bean Play, sand, water and more.

Amongst the multitude of activities for children we provide treasure baskets for exploration. Baskets are full of natural objects or those made from natural materials. Babies respond more intensely to such materials and more muted colours. At Blossom Lodge we encourage babies to explore the texture, taste, smell and sound of objects, not just the look of them. This is a collection we are always adding to and appreciate anything new that’s easily found around the house or out and about. Great examples include wooden spoons, corks, fir cones, dolly pegs, coasters, cotton reels, balls and more. Please let us know if you find something suitable. 

All aspects of your child’s development are enhanced through play and social interaction in a relaxed and homely environment. We strive to encourage each child’s exploratory impulses and natural inquisitiveness; more often than not this involves a lot of messy play to stimulate their senses.

Throughout the day children have the ability to explore and experience an entire range of resources. These include everything from arty and messy activities through to garden exploration (our garden is joined onto the Bumblebees room). 

Throughout this space children enjoy sharing stories, singing and dancing together. It’s around this time they will start to role play using dolls and toy kitchen sets. Children also begin constructing and sorting with a range of items such as building bricks, pine cones, octons and more.

At Blossom Lodge Day Nursery we fully encourage each child’s exploratory impulses and natural inquisitive natures. Because this involves a lot of messy play we ask parents and carers to ensure children are dressed suitably. Our aim is to allow your little ones to express themselves freely and without any boundaries.

The fantastic and lively room is full of children further developing their skills with the ongoing support of our enthusiastic staff. Language, independence, social skills and all other areas of development are further developed through free play and fun, well-planned activities. Caterpillar children love imaginary play; we encourage this further with lots of dressing up, stories and role play activities.

Caterpillars are usually the age group where toilet training is introduced, starting at home and supported by nursery. We have a toilet training guide that is available to all parents with nursery procedures, tips and support.

Our Butterfly room offers a relaxed atmosphere and a balanced mix of structured activities. Coupled with free play, a confidence and desire to learn is nurtured in each individual child. 

We’re extremely proud of our children and we help nurture and prepare them, ready for school. Our preschool children have childcare provided until the last working nursery day in August before starting school that September.

The way children play and their interests are carefully observed in Butterflies. We closely monitor progress whilst gaining the right knowledge in accessing individual needs. Through watching intently, we learn ourselves how to appropriately plan children’s learning and development next steps. Nursery curriculum is child-centred, arising from the interests of the children. Our team has been effectively trained in the Reggio Emilia approach. Based on the belief that children construct their own theories and knowledge through building relationships with others, this approach has proven to work well. 

‘Children need the freedom to appreciate the infinite resources of their hands, their eyes and their ears, the resources of forms, materials, sounds and colours.’ Reggio Emilia.

The Blossom Lodge nursery team celebrates all achievements of the children. Children are encouraged to ask questions and express discoveries, as play and talk are the main ways they learn. The Butterflies team actively encourages children to take part in planning their activities.  This results in a greater enthusiasm for what they are doing and pride in their own achievements. This also greatly enhances confidence.