The Ascot Day Nursery is situated in a beautiful Victorian building, with an outdoor area and private access to a local play park in North Ascot. We welcome children aged from birth to three years and understand the importance of flexible childcare. This is reflected in our fee structure, where you can choose the hours you require to suit your individual needs.

The children are cared for in a safe and stimulating environment, where practitioners build secure and trusting relationships with the children and their families. The setting has a big emphasis on learning through play and ‘in the moment’ opportunities to build on the children’s development and creates activities to meet the children’s interests to ensure learning is engaging and effective.

The opening hours are Monday to Friday 7:30am to 6:00pm, with the exception of bank holidays and the period between Christmas and New Year. Our fees are charged on an hourly basis, thus allowing parents the flexibility to choose hours which suit both their working and personal lives.

We have a very spacious room with high ceilings, providing lots of natural light. The large room allows for most activities to take place in one room, including art activities, messy play, sensory experiences, singing, and story times. We also have access to a large hall which we use as an extension of the main room. This area is used more often by the toddlers who enjoy learning about the themes we explore. The themes take us on a journey around the world, learning about different animals, people, and cultures.

The local library is also housed within the building, allowing us the opportunity to visit and enjoy quiet story times in small groups.

The outdoor area is an extension of our nursery, allowing space for the children to explore, play, and grow. The outside playground has a mud kitchen where the children can get creative, use their imagination, and model behavior and experiences from home. It also provides the children with the opportunity to play with, and alongside their peers and build on their social skills. There is also a musical area within the playground which encourages children to experiment with sounds, a water feature, where the children can experiment with water and explore ‘cause and effect’. The playground also has a large sandpit where children often build sandcastles, dig holes, and use their imagination with small world resources to play and explore. Also housed within the playground is an area for growing plants, fruit, and vegetables as well as a summer house that the children can access whilst playing outdoors. Along with the playground resources, we like to use the outside space as an extension of the main room and provide art, sensory, and other activities that the children enjoy indoors, outdoors.

The main room has outdoor access to a small area that the children can use throughout the day to bring the outdoors, indoors. Resources are used that follow the children’s interests and are changed regularly.

The Ascot Day Nursery is also within walking distance of a small wooded area, a duck pond, and local park. The children often go on local walks, nature trails, and trips to feed the ducks.

We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) which helps promote children’s development through ‘in the moment’ and planned activities that are guided by the curriculum.

The nursery is managed by Amanda Jarvis and her team. Amanda started at the nursery in 1999 as a student nursery nurse, and is now the manager after more than two decades of loyal and outstanding service. Our practitioners are either qualified to level 2 and above or are working towards their qualification, and both the manager and deputy manager have completed a degree in Children’s Learning and Development. All practitioners are DBS checked and hold a current paediatric first aid certificate, up-to-date safeguarding training, and food hygiene certificates which are renewed every three years. The Nursery director is Colleen Caddow. Colleen is on-site daily and has built secure relationships with the children and their families. Colleen is available to cover practitioners to provide continuity of care whilst practitioners may be away from the setting for annual leave or sickness. Through providing the all-important continuity of care, it helps to promote the children’s emotional well-being and supports secure and trusting relationships.