About Davison Day Nursery
Davison Day Nursery is a 42 place nursery, located in a purpose-built, single storey building on the site of Davison High School and is a term-time only nursery. The nursery is open between 8am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. During these opening times, the day is split into two sessions; 8am-1pm and 1pm-5pm. The nursery has three rooms, to enable us to provide different, age-appropriate experiences and activities for the children in our care. These rooms are: the Baby Room, the Toddler Room and the Pre-School Room. Special diets are catered for within the nursery and school lunches are provided. Healthy snacks, water/milk and formula milk are available during the day. The nursery operates a laundry facility should a child’s clothes need changing, in the event of an accident. Nappies are supplied by the parents. The nursery provides Factor 50 sun cream for the children unless you wish to provide your own. A key-person system is in operation throughout the nursery. This means that there is a key person who is responsible for ensuring that all your child’s needs are met.
Baby Room
The baby room is a calm and relaxed environment where most children will begin their nursery life. We care for up to 9 babies, looked after by three qualified members of staff. When your baby starts at nursery they will be assigned a key person from within the baby room who will help your child settle. At times, other staff members might be required to work alongside the baby room staff and this has the benefit of enabling your child to become familiar with other staff working within the nursery.
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is followed to ensure that the babies have lots of opportunities to learn in a holistic way, (by viewing them as a whole child). This is achieved by building upon the babies’ interest in interaction and by providing a range of opportunities to explore the world around them.
Toddler Room
The Toddler Room offers many new, exciting and stimulating experiences, as well as keeping a warm, homely and caring atmosphere. The Toddler Room can care for up to nine children in a session and has three qualified members of staff. Your toddler will be assigned a Key Person who will help your child settle and liaise with you regarding their progress and achievements. At times, other staff members might be required to work alongside the toddler staff and this has the benefit of enabling your child to become familiar with other staff working within the nursery.
A few weeks before your child starts in the Toddler Room, he/she will have had the opportunity to visit, steadily becoming used to the new environment.
In the Toddler Room we have a wide range of activities encouraging both individual play, where your child can explore and learn through experience, and group activities to encourage social skills such as sharing and communication. We also offer sand and water play, music time and outdoor activities where the children can make use of bikes, pushchairs and large apparatus and enjoy the opportunity to run freely in an open space.
Pre-School Room
The Pre-School room is full of activities and experiences available for your child to engage in, and these activities are offered as a result of focused observations following children’s individual interests.
Planning is done on an individual basis, using the information gathered from observations. Every child is allocated a Key Person when they start, who will help your child settle within the room, in addition to being responsible for liaising with you regarding their progress and achievements.
The Pre-School room care for twenty-four children and are looked after by four/five members of staff. We work closely with Northbrook College and encourage child care students to undertake their placements with us, working in the Pre-School room.
The Pre-School room have adjoining toilets and easy access to our large, exciting outside area. Our ethos within the Pre-School room is to promote quality interactions and to prepare your child for the transition to Primary School. We aim to develop independence so that they are prepared and equipped to cope with the next stage of learning. This includes being able to deal with their own toileting and hygiene needs, dress and undress and separate from their main carer with confidence.
The Pre-School room offers an extensive range of stimulating and exciting activities to enable children to build upon his/her existing experiences and interests, develop language and benefit from a depth in learning. Activities incorporating the indoor and outdoor environment include: - sand, water, mark-making, role play, books and stories, ‘messy play’ such as painting, jelly, ice, cornflour, pasta, singing and music, physical play, use of the computer, table-top activities such as puzzles, small world play, construction and modelling and our writing/ mark making area - the list is endless!
These experiences help children to develop their skills across the seven areas of learning and we are happy to work in partnership with you to meet your child’s individual needs.
