Corner House® Nurseries

A home away from home for your child to thrive

Your Local Corner House Nurseries

We have fourteen incredible Corner House Nurseries across the UK. We understand how difficult choosing a nursery can be which is why we are dedicated to providing a home away from home for your child to grow and develop.

At Corner House you’ll find everything in included; from delicious, nutritionally balanced meals to nappies and wipes – we have everything covered. Our free settling in sessions allow both you and your child as much time as you need whilst our highly trained, long standing teams are on hand to support you through the process. At each of our nurseries you will find an extensive garden, spacious playrooms and a wide range of activities which provide an array of learning opportunities to support all areas of your child’s development.

Why choose a Corner House Nursery

Secure entry system and accessible parking
Highly trained, long standing, welcoming teams
Free settling in sessions for as long as your child needs
Onsite chef providing nutritious and delicious NHS accredited meals
An array of nature-based learning opportunities and activities that encourage exploration, investigation and discovery of our natural world
2-5-year-olds funding and parent discounts

Outdoors and Nature

We love to get outside at Corner House! Each of our 4 rooms has its own separate inviting outside space, all appropriately set up for their age groups. All of 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 have mud kitchens, sheds, a stage, water play and a fairy garden! 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 an environmentally friendly nursery, making changes wherever we can in order to make the world a cleaner place! We are a registered ECO-Nursery and are committed to teach our children about their environment and the effect we have on it in our day to day lives.

Education at Corner House Nurseries

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 offer a range of flexible booking patterns and funding options, including 2-5 years old government’s funded childcare

Fees and Funding

Most Enjoyed Activities at Our Nursery

Our nurseries offer a wide range of nursery activities and extras to enrich every child’s experience at nursery and to support busy parents.

Physical Development and Education

As part of our curriculum, we are committed to ensuring children are physically active for a minimum of 3 hours per day.  Physical Development Champions at each nursery are passionate about physical development and create and design specific activities based around movement, raising the heartbeat and exercising the cardiovascular system.

Special Festivals

Our nursery encourages children to celebrate a wide range of festivals and celebrations throughout the year.  We always encourage our little one’s families to share their backgrounds too! This is one of the best ways for children to learn about different religions and cultures by celebrating various world religious festivals, food tasting from different countries and dressing up in the national dress of their friends.

Encouraging Communication

Every day at our nursery we understand the importance of promoting language and communication. Through your child’s daily interactions with other children and our practitioners, we seek to encourage communication and identify speech and language difficulties and supporting your little one in their development journey. With our calm, relaxed lunch experience, Our trained practitioners understand and expand the communication developments that take place during this time.

Fundraising Activities

Taking part in fundraising activities helps children to learn about others that are less fortunate than themselves and to understand how we can help them.  Fundraising events are good fun and are a great way to bring children, families and communities together.  Some of the fundraisers we have taken part in are: sponsored toddles, superhero days, baking cakes to sell and garden parties.

Graduations

We celebrate the big move to primary school with a special graduation ceremony each year!

Heuristic Play

We encourage Heuristic Play with our 1–2-year-olds, embracing every child’s natural curiosity.  Heuristic play involves offering children a range of different objects and receptacles with which they are encouraged to play freely without adult instruction.

Planting and Growing

We make use of our wonderful outdoor spaces and forest areas by encouraging children at our nurseries and Out of School Care clubs to plant, grow and tend to fruit, vegetables, flowers and herbs throughout the year.

Settling-In Sessions

Our nurseries offer free settling in sessions.  Parents can bring their child for a couple of hours first, gradually introducing the child to a new environment.  Settling in sessions are aimed at helping your child to adapt to their new surroundings and become more familiar with the staff and other children.

E-Learning Journals / Parent Zone App

Our E-Learning journals and Parent Zone app allow you to see your child’s activities at nursery with the click of a button.  Staff upload images and notes about your child’s participation in activities at nursery for you to access wherever you are.  Our nursery tablets offer exciting and stimulating learning experiences tailored to challenge and engage little ones.

Baking Activities

Wherever we can we encourage children to partake in preparing their meals at nursery.  We love to see children take pride in their culinary creations and enjoy healthy and delicious food.

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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