Our Rooms
Gable House is divided into rooms according to age groups. Children have access to toys and equipment appropriate for their age and stage of development which allows them to play and learn at their own pace in a safe and stimulating environment. Each floor has bathroom / changing facilities.
The Rocking Horse building
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A purpose built nursery unit sharing the same site as Gable House, designed to provide the best possible childcare and education with furnishings and equipment of the highest standard. This nursery building consists of ground and upper floors, each with child accessible bathroom facilities, large spacious rooms, a lending book library and high quality resources.
The Rocking Horse provides a safe, comfortable and stimulating environment where children aged 2-3 can explore, investigate and progress with the guidance and nurturing support of highly qualified staff.
Three year old children are cared for on the ground floor and have exactly the same facilities with age appropriate resources, with the added advantage of continuous free flow access to their own undercover secure outdoor play area.
All children have constant access to the use of our larger outdoor play area at regular intervals during the day in line with government guidelines. In line with the aims set out in our unique curriculum, all children have access to regular outings within the local community and further afield through organised trips on our minibus in order to broaden their individual bank of life experiences.
Baby Stars
We pride ourselves in offering a beautiful, exceptionally high quality, calm and nurturing environment for babies. The single most important aspect of caring for babies in our opinion is to create a space which is homely and personal where babies can form key attachments with staff and feel safe and secure. We take guidance from parents regarding home routines and follow them so that every baby settles quickly, with a familiar key staff member supporting this important transition every step of the way.
The baby room has cot and changing facilities within the room so that babies are continuously monitored by staff. All baby room staff have had specific training linked to delivering the highest standards of care and education for babies.
Little Stars and Little Rockers
Little stars is on the first floor of Gable House, consisting of 2 interconnected rooms, with seperate bathroom and changing facilities.
Little Rockers is the 2 year old room on the first floor of the Rocking Horse Building.
As in all other rooms, a key worker system ensures that your child’s developmental needs are monitored through the use of observations and tailored planning which ensures that every child progresses at their own pace. Staff take great pride in making sure that every day the children arrive into a fun filled room with planned activities based on individual interests waiting for them to enjoy.
Children have complete freedom of choice to access all of our high quality resources which are within easy reach, allowing spontaneous in the moment learning to occur continuously. As children transition to this room, new key workers are assigned and the transition process is gentle and gradual before they fully move.
Super Stars and Big Rockers
We have two Pre school rooms where children aged 3 and 4 occupy the ground floor of both Gable House and the ground floor of the Rocking Horse nursery buildings. Each of these rooms have separate changing/toilet facilities and also a book lending library for parents/carers to access.
Each of these rooms are unique, both offering well stocked, high quality resources for children to easily access promoting curiosity and spontaneous play and learning. Highly trained key workers are constantly monitoring and assisting educational progression with every child based on individual pace and preferences.
In line with government guidelines, children have regular access to fresh air and physical activity in our bespoke and secure outdoor play facilities.
In addition and as part of our unique curriculum, we plan very regular trips out and about in our community to local beaches and parks as well as further afield through our organised mini bus trips.
Starlight Rooms
These rooms are situated on the top floor of Gable House building and have been developed to support a really unique aim within our curriculum. This floor also has separate changing, kitchen and toilet facilities.
The purpose of these rooms is to facilitate very small groups of children throughout the day who would benefit from one to one support.
The floor has a beautiful multi sensory dark room with really high quality resources aimed at soothing children's senses and creating a safe, calm space where they can investigate with curiosity.
There is also a well equipped soft play room for additional access to physical play opportunities to enhance children's gross motor skills.
Our main room on this floor is used to deliver calm, one to one support for children who benefit from being in smaller groups. We also operate our Speech Club activities from this room to assist children who may require additional support with speech and language development.