Smiles Day Nursery
Smiles Day Nursery opened its doors in October 2016 as an OFSTED registered nursery and pre-school providing safe, flexible, pocket friendly childcare without compromising on quality or fun for children aged 0 to 5 years.
What we believe.
We acknowledge the formative early years of a child’s life as crucial to their future learning, development and life chances.
We believe that every child deserves the best possible start in life, helping them to develop into happy, confident, sociable and independent people.
At Smiles we achieve this by working closely with parents and families to ensure tailored care and education for each child, guided by their own unique set of experiences, interests and needs. We embrace individuality, quality and diversity; we value every child and their family, thus promoting a culture of respect, confidence and positive self-esteem.
What we believe.
We acknowledge the formative early years of a child’s life as crucial to their future learning, development and life chances.
We believe that every child deserves the best possible start in life, helping them to develop into happy, confident, sociable and independent people.
At Smiles we achieve this by working closely with parents and families to ensure tailored care and education for each child, guided by their own unique set of experiences, interests and needs. We embrace individuality, quality and diversity; we value every child and their family, thus promoting a culture of respect, confidence and positive self-esteem.
Who will be looking after your little ones?
Smiles operate a safe recruitment policy, carry out DBS checks on all staff and employ a high quality, experienced team of Early Years practitioners with qualifications ranging from NVQ level 3 in childcare and education to NVQ level 6 BA honours degree in early childhood studies.
Our practitioners undertake regular training to ensure up to date knowledge and guidance.
What will your little ones be doing?
The nursery host a variety of rooms such as four age appropriate activity rooms, a secret room, an imagination room, dining rooms, sand atelier and a large indoor garden.
We offer a wide range of things to do; each room has age appropriate activities to freely explore, to encourage curiosity, imagination, sustained shared thinking and lots of fun! We offer a variety of natural and authentic resources, encouraging lots of open ended play through our open ended resources, to enable children to be active learners and critical thinkers.
We have our very own mini bus and we go on trips three times a week. This enables us to go outside the village of Sapcote and explore new exciting areas, such as Bradgate Park, Fosse Meadows, Pets at Home and takes us on many more exciting adventures. On the days where a room does not have a mini bus trip scheduled, they will explore closer to the nursery, venturing to the local parks, library, garden centre, church, etc. We find it extremely important for children to experience all weather, whether it's snowing, raining or the sun is shining! 'There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.'
Our Inventors attend Forest School with Alex from ‘Woodykins’, every Wednesday morning, which teaches them vital skills for success in later life and enables them to really experience and enjoy the outdoors – ‘The best classroom and the richest cupboard is roofed only by the sky’ McMillan 1952.
On Tuesdays, we have a sports coach who attend the setting from ‘SuperStar Sports’, This supports us in building the childrens gross and fine motor skills through different fun physical activities, whilst also having lots of fun.
Smiles operate a safe recruitment policy, carry out DBS checks on all staff and employ a high quality, experienced team of Early Years practitioners with qualifications ranging from NVQ level 3 in childcare and education to NVQ level 6 BA honours degree in early childhood studies.
Our practitioners undertake regular training to ensure up to date knowledge and guidance.
What will your little ones be doing?
The nursery host a variety of rooms such as four age appropriate activity rooms, a secret room, an imagination room, dining rooms, sand atelier and a large indoor garden.
We offer a wide range of things to do; each room has age appropriate activities to freely explore, to encourage curiosity, imagination, sustained shared thinking and lots of fun! We offer a variety of natural and authentic resources, encouraging lots of open ended play through our open ended resources, to enable children to be active learners and critical thinkers.
We have our very own mini bus and we go on trips three times a week. This enables us to go outside the village of Sapcote and explore new exciting areas, such as Bradgate Park, Fosse Meadows, Pets at Home and takes us on many more exciting adventures. On the days where a room does not have a mini bus trip scheduled, they will explore closer to the nursery, venturing to the local parks, library, garden centre, church, etc. We find it extremely important for children to experience all weather, whether it's snowing, raining or the sun is shining! 'There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.'
Our Inventors attend Forest School with Alex from ‘Woodykins’, every Wednesday morning, which teaches them vital skills for success in later life and enables them to really experience and enjoy the outdoors – ‘The best classroom and the richest cupboard is roofed only by the sky’ McMillan 1952.
On Tuesdays, we have a sports coach who attend the setting from ‘SuperStar Sports’, This supports us in building the childrens gross and fine motor skills through different fun physical activities, whilst also having lots of fun.
Our Rooms