Healthy

Four times finalists for National Nursery Health & Wellbeing awards, we immerse children in healthy habits – because happy, healthy children do better in education.   Our outdoor focus and calm approach nurtures children’s wellbeing and resilience, to be ready for their future whatever it may hold.

Fresh, healthy food

Our food is prepared from scratch on site daily, using high quality ingredients, including plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, sourced locally where possible. Pediatric dietician approved; our healthy menus are developed to appeal to children. Parents are consulted to ensure that all dietary requirements are met, and menus shared.

Encouraging healthy choices

We create inspiring experiences to encourage a love of fresh, healthy food – for example growing vegetables, buying ingredients together locally to cook and learn about, or foraging and cooking over coals in the wild.  With good appetites from plenty of fresh air, children and staff eat together family style to encourage independence, table manners, sharing, and trying new foods.

Award-winning

Twice Best UK Nursery Food Award winner, and finalist four times, our food is amongst the best nationally. All of our nurseries are five star food hygiene rated, and hold the Soil Association’s Early Years Food for Life award (recognising outstanding food and food education).  All Trafford nurseries hold the Trafford Healthy Setting Award, (recognising that we nurture healthy eating, physical activity and emotional wellbeing).

Fresh air

Outdoor led, we get plenty of fresh air, which is beneficial for children with asthma, supporting immunity, and reducing anxiety and depression.   Higher oxygen levels outdoors boost brain development too, something that’s especially important in the Early Years, as the brain is 90% developed by the age of five.

Exercise

Our outdoor curriculum, bespoke garden play equipment, free extra-curricular activities, (e.g.  Stretch‘n’Grow or Diddi Dance), and adventures in the wild enable an endless range of physical challenges.  From climbing and swinging, to catching, balancing on a log, squelching through mud or kicking up leaves, these challenges boost physical development, wellbeing and engagement with learning.

Wellbeing

Prioritising time in the wild, we enable children to connect to nature and experience natural feel good activities, boosting wellbeing. This is more important than ever.  In 2023, 1 in 5 UK school aged children had a mental health problem.  Experts are calling for active outdoor play to be prioritised, and more time spent in nature.

Wild Benefits

Children love nature, and are happy playing outside. Research shows that every day contact with nature (wild countryside, as opposed to manmade gardens) improves children’s long term physical and mental health; is calming; has the same effect on ADHD as Ritalin; and reduces stress, depression and anxiety.   Even mud can increase serotonin levels and support immunity.

Resilience

Our adventures in the wild nurture resilience.   Unlike classrooms or gardens, the wild is ever changing – we never quite know what we will experience.  Unpredictable outcomes, such as the den children built falling down and needing to be rebuilt in a different way, develop resilience for life’s bigger challenges and unpredictable events.

Safety

Exceeding legal requirements, we invest in extra precautions to protect children’s safety.  From biometric finger print access systems, CCTV and alarms, to easily identifiable, outdoor appropriate uniforms and robust, easy to steer ‘turtle bus’ pushchairs with safety brakes.  Each nursery has a defibrillator (available to communities), hold Millie’s Mark, (requiring all staff to be first aid trained and know how to use it), and directly employ cleaners, ensuring high standards of cleanliness.

  • ‘From the first day we visited the children were all calm and engaged in activities. There was a real difference in atmosphere compared to other nurseries we visited, it’s clear there’s a focus on enrichment and well-being’.

    Poppies Parent

  • ‘Children access the creatively resourced outdoor space frequently. They develop their core strength and agility. Children benefit from the many opportunities that support their physical development’.

    Ofsted

  • ‘Incredible surroundings looking out on to fields with plenty of outdoor space and opportunities for parents to get involved with forest school’.

    Hale Parent

  • ‘Cannot recommend this nursery enough. Activities really cater to the children’s individual interests. I’ve been extremely impressed with the extracurricular activities, the outdoor space and amount of time spent outdoors and the amazing food. Highly recommended!’

    Hale Parent

  • ‘We have been winners or finalists for multiple awards – including best nursery chef UK award winner; best nursery food UK award winner twice and finalist six times, and twice finalists for the UK health & wellbeing award’.

    Nursery World / Nursery Management Today

  • ‘We are so grateful to all the amazing staff who have provided such a nurturing environment. They have done such a fantastic job at supporting my daughter emotionally, socially and academically. She has had so much fun and made great friends’.

    Broussa Parent

  • ‘Leaders focus heavily on ensuring that children have a voice, feel safe and are respected. Children listen carefully to each other, waiting patiently for their turn to speak. Staff are excellent role models. They instil a culture of mutual respect and positive behaviour. Children behave impeccably’. Ofsted

  • ‘Thank you so much for the lovely random acts of kindness surprise I had yesterday when I met you and the lovely children in Hale.  I loved the picture you made for me and it did make me happy’.

    Local Resident

  • ‘All the staff are wonderful, friendly and welcoming, they have done an amazing job looking after my son and made him feel safe and secure right from the off’.

    Broussa Parent

  • ‘Staff provide a curriculum that fully supports children’s independence and social skills. Activities are tailored to cater to the individual needs of all children’.

    Ofsted

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