Facilities
At Growing Minds children will experience a variety of indoor and outdoor activities, planned by a qualified and experienced staff team who genuinely love to come to work and care for our children and their families.
Parents and Carers at Growing Minds know that their children are happy and safe enabling them to focus their attention on other commitments more easily.
To truly appreciate what Growing Minds can offer you and your family a visit would be highly recommended. We run an open door policy so feel free to come and experience our Growing Minds community at your convenience. (For this visit please bring with you a form of photo id.)
Our Inquisitors are children aged 6 weeks – 2 years. They are based upstairs where the space is more cosy and home-like with features that enable us to cater for their personal care and sleeping needs whilst remaining in the 1:3 staff to child ratio. Our Inquisitors thrive in an environment that is rich in heuristic play and sensory experiences; supporting their gross motor skills and brain development.
The open-ended nature of these activities means children can explore in a myriad of ways, allowing for their imagination to lead their play. Our Inquisitors are actively exposed to various sounds – sounds which they discover can be created between the surfaces of different objects; supporting their early phonics skills. The heuristic play objects offer opportunities for children to actively explore, combine and manipulate items in a range of sizes, shapes and weights; promoting early mathematical conceptual learning.
Our practitioners adapt to the changing needs of Our Inquisitors and react to every interaction however small. Our ambition is to build solid foundations for the first stepping stone towards success.
Our Collaborators are children aged 2 – 3 years old. Their adventures will begin upstairs in a familiar environment where they feel safe and secure they will then transition downstairs when they show signs of readiness. Our blossoming 2 -3 year olds are constantly intrigued by the world around them and learn best when they are interested which is why our practitioners plan learning activities that are thought provoking, fun and based on the children’s interests.
Our collaborators are encouraged to co-operate with their peers whilst discovering their own independence; they will help set up dinner tables for lunch understanding the routines pertaining this, self-serve their food and feed themselves. In partnership with our parents/carers our practitioners will support toilet training your child. Our ambition is to ensure that our Collaborators build the confidence, independence and skills required for their next adventures as an Explorer.
Our Explorers are pre-school children aged 3 – 5 years old who are based downstairs with free flow access to the venture space. Growing Minds support our children on their important transition to school offering a bespoke curriculum and a variety of experiences truly giving Growing Minds children the best start in education. With a sense of pride Our Explorers will follow their Early Year’s Teacher and Practitioners through a book based adventure.
Learning phase 2 phonics and early maths; practicing fine motor and early writing skills and developing a growth mindset and the understanding of and ability to practice mindfulness strategies. Our ambition is to ensure that Our Explorers build the confidence, independence and skills required for their next adventures at big school.
Children at Growing Minds will go out as often as possible! The children who are based downstairs (aged approx. 2 – 5 years) will access Our Venture space on a free flow basis so will have constant access to the outdoors, whatever the weather.
The children upstairs (aged approx. 6 weeks – 2 years) will access our Venture space every day at times the practitioners feel is most appropriate.
Security
The following procedures are carried out to ensure your child’s safety and well being:
All external doors locked
Video door entry system
Internal & External CCTV
Internal nursery rooms fitted with key code entry.
Policies & Procedures
As you would expect from a high quality childcare provider, we have a range of policies and procedures in place to ensure that your children are safe and well. Our policies are updated regularly a link to them is sent to you on enrolling and each time they are updated. A copy can also be requested from management at anytime.
As always, if you have any questions at all just give us a call, send us a message via Famly or ask any of our staff members. We are always happy to help!