Our Facilities
The nursery has been designed with the needs of the children in mind with bespoke furniture and up to date equipment to give your child the best experience.
Outside Play Areas
The nursery has a number of outside play areas for use all year round:
The Patio Area with a large overhead canopy
Our Walled Garden, Forest School, and Seasonal Growing Area
The AstroTurf Play Area with an all-weather surface
The Robust Activity Area with log traverse and Mud Kitchen
We include the outdoor area in our planning with adult led and child-initiated activities. The area is accessible throughout the day therefore the children require suitable wet weather clothing and we ask parents to provide wellington boots for our forest school sessions.
Forest School
The Forest School is accessible throughout the day and is planned with adult led and child-initiated activities.
Play Equipment
We have a very well-equipped nursery with a wide variety of learning materials and both indoor and outdoor play equipment including:
Large wooden construction toys and community play building blocks
Plenty of painting, drawing and collage materials including an art easel
Balancing beams, rocking chairs and push chairs, as well as cars, boats, trucks, trains, pull-along transporters, dinosaurs, farm animals and dolls.
Books, toys, puzzles, costumes, alphabet, and number games
Sand and Water is accessible in all rooms as planned
Musical instruments, computer equipment, magnets and more.
Washroom & Changing Facilities
There are nappy changing areas in all rooms apart from pre-school room. This promotes good practice in respect of safeguarding children and staff. We provide baby wipes, however if special wipes are required, please supply these alongside a pack of nappies for your child.
The children’s toilets are located within easy reach of the two rooms on the ground floor this consist of four separate cubicles with doors, four low-level sinks, soap dispensers and paper towels. There are two separate toilets located on the first floor to support children that are potty training in the rooms on the first floor and children will always have a member of staff with them. The children are encouraged to practice good hygiene and they wash their hands regularly throughout the day.
Safety, Security and First Aid
At Kids and Co., we take the safety, security, and welfare of the children in our care extremely seriously. As such we have a number of security, first aid and fire safety procedures in place, which are regularly reviewed, tested and updated. However, to summarise, it might be useful for parents to know that:
We have well equipped First Aid Boxes in all play rooms and in the kitchen. Our Early Years practitioners regularly update their Paediatric First Aid Training. Please ask to see our policy on how we deal with first aid procedures.
We have a modern Fire Alarm System with smoke detectors throughout the building, which is regularly serviced and tested. We also practice the Fire Drill with the children and staff on a regular basis.
We undertake head counts and Security Checks every day (using a register), to make sure the nursery is secure. We have a strict signing in and signing out procedure, no visitors are left unaccompanied, and all visits are by appointment only. We make sure all the external windows and doors are kept locked (or have safety locks), that the external gates are closed, and that the children are SUPERVISED AT ALL TIMES throughout the day.
We enforce a ban on the use of personal cameras and mobile phones. Copies of all our fire, sickness, illness, injury and door policies are available to view in our Operational Plan and on our Parent Portal, Tapestry. Please ask us for more information if required.
