The tweenies rooms provide care for children aged between 16 and 26 months. We use nature to fill your child’s day with marvel and excitement. We encourage their natural curiosity to question, experiment and develop ingenuity. From a walk through our fairy garden, to watching raindrops plopping in a puddle, we appreciate and experience the magic of all that nature has to offer.

The creative room provides the children with access straight onto their own outdoor play space. This room is where the children have opportunity to express themselves through chalk, paint, pencils, sensory trays and messy activities. The children also eat in this room, providing a lovely family group atmosphere, as they all sit around the table together to talk about their day.

The exploration room offers the children loose parts play. A ‘loose parts’ toy, is open-ended; children may use it in many ways and combine with other loose-parts. Introducing simple, everyday objects can improve creativity, boost social and problem-solving skills, and support inclusion. Nature, which excites all the senses, remains the richest source of loose parts, which we have an abundance of here at Abbotswood Day Nursery.

The children have a range of different spaces that offer awe and wonder within the rooms. This is to extend their learning and development, and includes role play, small world, and loose parts construction.

When your child starts at the nursery, we allow them freedom to settle in and build relationships with the adults who care for them. They will generally build a stronger link with a particular member of staff and this will be you child’s key person. The key person role is to support and document your child’s learning and development, as well as tend to their care needs, nappy changes, going to bed, etc. Your child’s key person will feedback to you at the end about how they have been. You can talk to your child’s key person about any changes in your child’s routine or home life. Termly, your child’s key person will give you an in-depth overview of your child’s time here at Abbotswood.

We have a growth centric approach at Abbotswood, and so work in partnership with parents to decide when children are ready to move on to the next stage of their Abbotswood journey. Your child’s key person will give the room they are moving into a full hand over of your child’s learning and development before they move. The staff allow two weeks for your child to settle and build a relationship with the new adults in the room before telling you who their new key person is. Information about the room and the staff working in there will be sent out to you, and an in depth overview sent out to you on our EyLog system.