Happitots® Nurseries

Providing children with a safe, nurturing, home from home environment where they can learn, play and thrive.

Your Local Happitots Nurseries

Happitots Nurseries are located across Scotland in Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen.  At Happitots we pride ourselves in providing excellence in childcare and early education for children aged from birth to 11 years.  Our nurseries, creche and Out of School Care centres offer a unique range of services and extra-curricular activities to meet individual needs.  

The heart of what we do is providing friendly, safe and supportive environments which put children first every time.  Each nursery is unique and we aim to create spaces which feel like a home from home.   Children learn and develop well in enabling environments with teaching and support from adults, who respond to their individual interests and needs and help them to build their learning over time.

We promote learning through play, invigorating outdoor environments and using natural resources.  We are committed to providing healthy, balanced nutritional meals, supporting children to explore, learn and socialise and delivering every day with passion!

You’ll love Happitots Nurseries

  • Independent, teacher-directed, and small, group activities that encourage investigation, exploration, and discovery
  • Children learn by playing and exploring, being active and thinking creatively and critically
  • Curriculum that supports creative expression, literacy, music, and more
  • Confidence-building opportunities to solve problems and make decisions
  • STEM learning that encourages future-forward skills
  • Safety, security, and robust cleanliness practices
    We are Care Inspectorate Registered Nursery
Our Curriculum

Outdoors and Nature

We love to go outside at all Happitots Nurseries!  We provide separate and inviting outside space, all appropriately set up for each age group.  All our outdoor areas provide children with opportunities to get fresh air and have fun in a safe and secure environment. 

The children love playing in our gardens which provide a variety of activities including den building, mud kitchens, water play, digging and planting, and musical play.  As well as access to our fabulous outdoor play areas, children of all ages enjoy regular walks in the local area.  Our youngest children are often seen out in our double buggies enjoying the fresh air, sights and sounds of the local community.

We use high-visibility vests to keep children safe when out on trips away from the nursery.  We believe there is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing – so we ask parents to provide their children with appropriate clothing for all types of weather.

We are committed to being environmentally friendly, making changes wherever we can in order to make the world a cleaner place.  We include teaching our children about their environment and the effect we have on it in our day to day lives.

Education at Happitots Nursery

Our curriculum includes a Realising the Ambition: Being Me framework in conjunction with Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence approach that offers hands-on perspectives to encourage the skills your child will need in the nursery and beyond:

  • Mathematics: Integrating numbers into real-life routines
  • Schematic Play: Quality learning environment providing the potential for children’s creativity skills and allowing them to follow their own interests confidently
  • Listening, Attention and Speaking: Teaching children to express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using complete sentences
  • Personal, Social and Emotional Education
  • STEM Activities: Building and problem solving using science, technology, engineering, and math
  • Ensuring children are physically active from birth and meet the Chief Medical Officers (2019) guidelines of a minimum of 3 hours per day

Our Nursery Fees and Funding

We always offer flexible booking patterns and a range of funding options, including 3-5 years old government’s funded childcare.

Fees and Funding

Our curriculum

We will guide you through every step to get the most out of our nurseries. Join our family across the UK. If you have any questions or enquiries please feel free to contact us on the following details provided below or alternatively you can complete our online enquiry form also located below and we will get back to you as soon as possible…

Our Curriculum

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