Welcome to Cowplain Day Nursery

Joey’s field is a nature reserve and outside classroom located in the nearby infant school. Here the children can really explore the natural world and their environment by taking part in activities such as nature trails, den building and pond dipping all in a safe environment. The classroom allows for lots of creative activities using natural resources they have found whilst the tunnels and hills continue to support all the children’s physical development.

Our mark making and writing area is resourced with a wide range of high quality mark making tools and equipment. We use children’s current interests to enhance mark making opportunities and encourage all children to explore marks and how they are made, developing those all important pre-writing skills.

Maths and problem solving are available throughout the nursery, however the maths area provides opportunities for exploration of shape, space, measure and developing and understanding of numbers and their uses. The resources give opportunities for sorting by shape, size and colour as well as recognising patterns giving children the skills they need to make connections and solve all kinds of problems.

The centres spacious sports hall provides the perfect place for the children to let off steam.

Here they can choose from a variety of play equipment such as stepping stones, balance beams, bikes and balls. We have a large parachute that we use for group circle games which helps the children to co-operate with one another.

The nursery has the highest quality role play area with its solid wood kitchen and dressing up units. The children love to plan this into whatever their theme e.g. we had beach café, an aeroplane and even a dentist!

Our Cosy corner is filled with bright colourful cushions ready for those children who want to relax in comfort. They can look at one of our many good quality books, sit and have a quiet chat with their friends or just have some quiet time to themselves or a little rest. There are plenty of teddies for cuddles & snuggles and a cd player available to play some lovely relaxing music.

Messy play contributes enormously to the development of a child’s cognitive and creative abilities. It allows a child to explore their senses by providing the opportunity to pour, mix, squeeze and squelch materials not normally available to them. Also, not having to produce something particular, leaves a child free to explore all sorts of possibilities. It taps into a child’s curiosity about the world around them and feeds their irresistible urge to try new things out and experiment.

At Cowplain Day Nursery we feel that meal times should be a relaxed, happy and sociable time. The children are encouraged to make independent choices when selecting there snacks from the range of healthy and nutritious food we offer.

Example of a week’s menu:-

• Breakfast between 8am – 9am– choice of cereal, toast or fruit. Milk or Water
• Mid morning snack – varies from apple, banana, grapes, raisins, breadsticks, cheese, cucumber and carrot sticks. malt loaf.
• Lunch parents provided lunch box
• Mid afternoon snack consists of the same as morning snack

Tea 4.15pm , an example of the weeks menu is as below :-

• Mon – Sausages, potatoes and veg
• Tues – Pasta & meatballs
• Wed – Fish fingers, mash, beans and sweetcorn
• Thurs – Cheesy Pasta
• Fri – Mince, roast potatoes and vegetables

After tea fruit or yoghurt is offered.

Additional £1 for Tea

Through out the day the children can help themselves to water as we have a water cooler situated in the nursery

Your Padnell school child can be left with us from 8am.
We can then, if required, supply breakfast. There will be activities for your child prior to us taking them to Padnell school for the start of their day.
At the end of their school day, we can collect your child from Padnell School and bring them to our after school care.
Charges for this are at a rate of £6 per hour including Tea