1.What are your opening hours?
We are open from 7:30am – 6:00pm Monday – Friday. We are open all year round excluding the first full week in August, a week over Christmas and bank holidays. You will not be charged for these days.
2. What are your session times?
We offer many different sessions to suit your needs. For more details on session times and prices please visit our About Us page or email: tom@thefarmyardnursery.co.uk or sara@thefarmyardnursery.co.uk.
3. What age ranges do you take?
We care for children aged 3months – 5 years.
4. What do I need to provide?
A list of what you will need to bring to nursery can be found here for children starting in the baby room and here for children starting in the 2-5 room.
5. What meals/snacks do you provide? Do you cater for allergies/intolerances/preferences?
At The Farmyard Nursery we are committed to feeding the children a varied, colourful, interesting and healthy diet. Breakfast from 7:30am-8:00am is a choice of two different cereals (or a mix!) or toast with milk or water to drink. From 8:00am – 8:30am children have the choice between two different cereals (or a mix!). Our snacks consist of fruit/vegetables and a carbohydrate for a balanced snack, served with a choice of either milk or water. We provide a hot homemade lunch with plenty of vegetables and protein, along with a pudding. We can cater for any culture/religion/preference/allergy/intolerance. If your child’s session is until 6:00pm, we serve a light tea at 4:00pm with a pudding. Lunch and tea are both served with water. The children have all-day access to their own eco-friendly metal water bottles that the nursery provides.
6. What is a day at The Farmyard Nursery like?
Every day is different at The Farmyard Nursery and activities can vary depending on the children’s interests that day. The nursery opens at 7:30am and we run breakfast until 8:30 so that the children who start at 8:00am can enjoy breakfast with their friends too. We let the children free play if they are not eating during this time and we have free-flow access to the garden. We have snack around 9:30am, but this can vary if we go for a walk to the woods and take snack with us for a picnic! We spend a lot of the day outside free playing and exploring activities led by the children’s interests. At 12:00pm all of the children eat a hot, homemade cooked meal for lunch together with the adults and then children either go home or come into nursery at 1:00pm, and the younger children have a nap while the older children free play. We continue our free-flow access to the garden in the afternoon and have snack around 2:30pm (again, this time can vary depending on if we are on walk) until 4:00pm when some of our friends go home, and some stay for a light tea until 6:00pm.