What to expect when you first visit the toddler (blue) room

- The Environment    - The Staff    - Learning    - How our day is structured

• The Environment

When your toddler joins us at the Tulips Day nursery they will have the opportunity to thrive in an environment that encourages their creativity, confidence, determination and love of exploring.

To ensure that your child has the opportunity to investigate their surroundings and make sense of the world around them with ease and comfort you will notice that our rooms have tables and chairs that let their feet touch the floor, labelled see through containers that enable them to choose, play with and put away their favourite toys.  Natural resources that encourage inquisitiveness and stimulation, peaceful corners as they enjoy listening to a story and well equipped rooms that enable your child to develop their mind and personalities to the highest possible peaks.

The extensive out-door area allows your toddler further learning experiences.  The garden is a humdrum of activity where climbing, cycling, pushing, pulling throwing and catching form just some of the skills that your child will learn to develop and master with confidence as they progress through their years with us at Tulips.  Your child will learn to plant and look after different seasonal flowers and vegetables – in turn watching their efforts grow, giving them an immense sense of achievement.

• The Staff

Our highly qualified and experienced staff will be by their side to guide, nurture and praise.  To listen to them make sense of a situation, to answer their whys and what fors and to show patience love and care enabling your child to create their own impressions of the world around them, and first impressions are lasting impressions.  The ratio of staff to children from the age of two is one to three.  Each child has a dedicated Key Worker – who is your first point of contact at the beginning and at the end of the day.  The Key worker will ensure that she knows everything about your child and she will share this information with other nursery staff ensuring that your child’s every need in met in the best possible way.  Individual communication books will further enable you to share with your child’s daily trials and tribulations.  Making you feel very much a part of your child’s learning experience.

• Learning – The Tulips Way

At the Tulips Day Nursery our Early Years Curriculum provides a framework to ensure that each child receives the care and education for every aspect of their development.  This is achieved through a combined programme of planned activities free play and your child’s own first hand experiences.

Your child will have the opportunity to experience a number of varying stimuli.  These will include:

• Play in a secure environment as a member of a group
• Express their own feelings
• Begin to share and care
• Begin to understand what is right from wrong
• Become confident and have a positive self-image
• Enjoy making things
• Test and try their own ideas with different equipment to see how they work.

How our day is structured.