It's fun to learn!
"it's the cornerstone that Horbury Day Nursery is built upon"
47a Manorfield Drive
Horbury
Wakefield
WF4 6JY
01924 275690
lIMITED AVAILABILITY
Please contact us if you are looking for childcare
and we will do our best to help provide you exactly what childcare you require.
Our Pre School is nearly full until July 2024, Toddlers have limited availability and Babies have limited availability until April 2024
If you have any questions then please ring, we welcome all enquiries.
OFsted report now available
We are pleased our latest Ofsted report is now available read.
Our vision and intent
Our ethos is that "it's fun to learn" which is the cornerstone that Horbury Day Nursery is built upon.
The heart of all we do is embraced within the following intents:
To provide and maintain outstanding childcare and education
To employ and retain highly qualified, committed and caring staff
To provide and maintain nutritious and exciting ‘5 a day’ food standards
&
To ensure that every child reaches their full potential whilst having fun learning
First-Rate Curriculum
Our curriculum is to help support the development of babies and children within our nursery. It is based on the Early Years Foundation Stage(EYFS). We use tapestry to share children's development with our parents and carers, this is also a platform where parents and carers can share their child's photos and observations with their child's keyworker.
We also believe in continually supporting all our staff with their development, so we provide every staff member with a Noodle Now training account, where they can assess 110 + courses which supports them in the work place and we also close 2 half days a year for staff training.
During this time we bring in professional people to train our staff team in different skills, our next half day staff training will be a Saturday morning in May 2024, where we will be exploring children's play and all it's benefits to children's learning.
We also encourage our staff to continue their personal development and follow their passion for learning.
All our staff are Pediatric First Aid Trained and once a year, we offer a free first aid training course for all our parents and grandparents.
Our free parents' pediatric first aid course took place on Saturday 7th October 23. Due to this courses success we are offering another free first aid training course for parents, carers and grandparents on Sat 25th May 2024.
We thank Lee and the team at One Stop safety training solutions for delivering all our first aid training.
Dedicated Staff
Our staff are highly qualified to standards well above the legal requirements, which means that we have a team of skilled, dedicated and knowledgeable staff who are passionate about providing the highest quality of care and early years teaching.
All our staff are dedicated and hard working and each month we look out for the staff member who has gone above and beyond in their job. We do this by having a 'Star of the month'. We celebrate and congratulate a member of staff for who they are and what they do at nursery. They also receive a thank you gift from Chris and Julia.
Our 'Star of the month' this month is
Taylor
Thank you Taylor for your hard work and dedication in the pre-school room, and help settling the new staff into the setting.
Well done Taylor.
Please read 'Meet the Team' below for further staff information.
Outside Agencies that we work with
To ensure that we offer children the best levels of help and support to meet their care and educational needs, we work with outside agencies such as Children and Young People's Service Early Years Sufficiency Team, WESAIL, Ofsted, Early Years SEND team, Early Help Hub, LADO and Social Services as and when required.
Meet the Team
Management
Chris and Julia are the owners of Horbury Day Nursery. Chris looks after the finances and food hygiene training. Julia cares for the staff as she is passionate about staff well being.
Chris holds Level 4 food safety, a teaching award, Level 4 childcare qualification and is a serving Magistrate. Julia holds Level 5 childcare qualification and also works as a volunteer at the Rosalie Ryrie Foundation, working with victims, perpetrators and children of domestic abuse.
Julia is also a volunteer at CAP (Community Awareness Project) in Wakefield, helping to support disadvantaged and vulnerable people, many homeless.
Chris and Julia also help to feed the needy and homeless and work with charities that care for children around the world, by way of sponsor. Children they sponsor with the Compassion and ONE BY ONE Charity. This enables the children they sponsor to have clothing and go to school, and where required, a safe home in a Christian orphanage with ONE BY ONE.
Richard is our Maintenance Manager, he ensures that nursery is always on top of little jobs and the gardens are tidy and safe for play. Richard also helps prepare the children's snacks and meals and he drives the school bus. Richard has worked with Chris and Julia since 2014.
Jade and Emma share the Manager's Role. Jade holds a Level 3 Qualification in childcare, and is also part of the toddler team, Jade has worked with Chris and Julia since 2007.
Emma, who holds a BTEC Level 3 in Childcare qualification, has been with us since 2014. Emma also works with any staff and children that require extra help.
Megan E is our Deputy Manager, Megan holds her Level 3 qualification in childcare and has worked with Chris and Julia for over 11 years.
Megan is also part of the baby room team.
Anna S has worked with us since 2022. Anna helps with admin work alongside studying for her A Levels.
Pre School
Our Pre School room leader is Lauren, who holds a Level 3 in Childcare qualification and has been with us since 2018. Lauren also helps the management team.
Taylor who has Level 3 in Childcare and has worked with Chris and Julia since 2020. Taylor is currently studying for her Level 5 Early Years Lead Educator qualification. Taylor helps run preschool room.
Magda, who has a Level 3 in childcare qualification and is our Education Coordinator. Magda also speaks languages additional to English, and likes to teach the children different words from different languages. Magda speaks Polish, Russian, Italian and Spanish. Magda also loves teaching the children Makaton.
Candice holds a Level 2 childcare qualification and joined us February 24. Candice will also be working with the toddlers and is working towards a Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification and also works in our toddler room helping children prepare for Pre School.
Sheryl joined us November 2023 and holds her BA hons degree in childhood studies. Sheryl loves interacting with our children.
Iqra joined us February 2023, Iqra holds a Level 2 childcare qualification and is currently on maternity leave until Sept 24.
In pre school 'it's fun to learn' about different topics from out of space to occupations. Promoting independent learning, caring for the environment, how to care for ourselves, clean our teeth, letters and sounds, getting ready to read, write, taking part in science experiments, building and making dens, roads structures for the cars, outdoor play, baking, inventing perfumes, drawing being artists, going on trips learning about the world we live in, model making out of recycling, visiting the local library, litter picking in the local area, whilst learning about keeping our community clean, being kind to our friends and lots more besides. So it's very exciting in pre school where the children love to laugh, play and learn in a fun environment.
Toddlers
Helen is the toddler room leader who holds a Level 3 qualification in Childcare. Helen has worked with Chris and Julia since 2016.
Toddler team members are;
Jade who holds a Level 3 childcare, has worked with Chris and Julia since 2007. Jade is also our Manager along with Emma.
Amy was keen to start working with us and completed 104 of our online training courses before joining us in April 23.
Amy is Deputy Room Leader and helps support Helen and staff.
Emily joined us April 23, holds a Level 2 childcare qualification and is now completing her Level 3 Early Educator qualification. Emily works with the toddler's and the babies. Emily loves interacting and supporting the children's learning.
Sharon has lots of experience working with children and loves interacting and working with the toddlers. Sharon is also studying for her Level 3 Early Educator qualification, she also helps out in the Pre School room.
Candice, also works with the children who are in toddlers but are due to transition to Pre School.
Toddler room is a place where 'it's fun to learn' with lots of singing, nursery rhymes, messy play, soft play, disco playdough, outdoor play and has different activities taking place throughout the day. When children are at the right stage they are encouraged to potty train, which is something that we work closely with parents on.
Baby Room and Tweeny Room
We have two dedicated baby rooms at Horbury Day Nursery. This gives us the ability to split different aged babies, enabling us to nurture and meet the needs of every individual child, ensuring that we are consistently promoting the highest standard of space and resources for younger children to explore. When the babies are split into two different rooms, the older babies can free flow inside and out, enabling them to play and move freely within their learning environment.
Lucy is the baby room leader and holds a level 3 in childhood studies, and started working at Horbury Day Nursery in 2015.
The baby room team consists of
Lauren P, who also holds a Level 3 childcare qualification, and has been with us for over 11 years.
Megan E, who joined us September 2022 however, Megan has worked with Chris and Julia for over 11 years. Megan has a Level 3 in childcare qualification and is our Deputy Manager.
Katie, who is completing a Level 3 Early Educator Apprenticeship qualification, and has been with us since 2022. Katie also helps out in the toddler room.
Kelly Anne who holds a Level 3 childcare qualification, and has been with us since 2008.
Aimee, who is completing her Level 3 Early Educator qualification, joined in March 24, Aimee is excited to complete her qualification.
Beth, who is completing her Level 3 Early Educator qualification, joined in March 24 and is excited to be working with the babies.
Emily joined us April 23, holds a Level 2 childcare qualification and is now completing her Level 3 Early Educator qualification. Emily works with the baby room and the toddler room team.
Wrap around and holiday care for School children aged under 7.
We work in partnership with St Peter's and Clifton School when parents/carers share their child's 30hrs free funding across both our settings. Children can attend school for their 15hrs free funding and also attend Horbury Day Nursery claiming the remaining 15hrs funded hours, plus additional hours if required. We pick children up and drop off from St Peter's and Clifton School at 11.30am and at 12pm as we have children in our care for a morning or afternoon session and then we take or collect from St Peter's and Clifton School using our minibus. The children love to travel to and from school on the minibus. Richard and Julia predominantly drives the minibus to and from school with a member of staff taking the children in and picking them up.
For the children's best interests and good practice we like to share children's development information between school and ourselves.
We have a small group of school aged children who attend all year around. They love to play outside, as much as possible, and love to go on trips in the school holidays. It's fun to learn in our Community.
Nursery Meals
Our kitchen has earned us a five star food hygiene rating for eight years in a row with Chris, who has a level 4 award in Managing Food Safety in Catering, overseeing the general running and management. We make nutritious and exciting ‘5 a day’ meals for all the children. We cater for vegetarians, vegans, all allergies and food intolerances, and, whilst we make ever effort to ensure that food is free from relevant allergens and cross contact, we are not able to guarantee this.
Sharon joined us Sept 22. Sharon holds a Level 3 Food and Hygiene qualification and enjoys cooking for the children when she isn't working with the children in their rooms. Richard holds a Level 2 Food and Hygiene qualification and enjoys helping prep the children's snacks and keeping the kitchen clean. Julia holds a level 2 Food and Hygiene qualification and enjoys cooking for the children. As our nursery is growing we are looking forward to taking on a new member of staff Annmarie, who joined Feb 24. Annmarie loves cooking and is excited to be cooking our children tasty healthy meals. Annmarie also holds a childcare qualification and will be helping us cover staff lunches by supervising some children over the lunch period.
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opening hours and pricing
Fees from 1st April 2024
Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 6.00pm
*Early bird available from 7.00am * Must be booked in advance.
*Early Bird- 7.00am until 8am £6.00 or 7.30am until 8am £3.50
8am until 6pm - Full Day- £56.50
8am until 1pm - Half Day- £38.00
1pm until 6pm - Half Day- £38.00
Hourly rate for extra hours £7.70
Wrap around care to St Peter's and Clifton Primary School at 11.30am or 12pm. Costs apply.
Where Free Funding applies, snacks & meals are chargeable.
5yrs+ Holiday Club, Full Day £48, Half Day £32.
