About Us

Introduction | Ethos | Vision | Values | Our Staff

Our Philosophy

We take great pride in providing a warm, welcoming environment. Our responsible practitioners deliver high-quality care for children from 6months-5 years old.

We understand that choosing a nursery for your child can be tough, as we believe there is nothing more important than your child’s safety and happiness. We ensure you that our enthusiasm and professionalism always shine through. We adapt to every child’s needs as they receive the love and care they need every minute of the day.

All of the staff here at Marshmallows Day Nursery ensure to always engage with our children and our parents to guarantee that everyone receives the best experience.

Our Ethos

Here at Marshmallows our children thrive through play, the children succeed by exploring, creating and making new discoveries.

We believe that children’s experiences in their earliest years are critical to their future development. By following the children’s interest and following the EYFS, we provide fun learning opportunities which allow our children to grow in all areas.

We foster a love of learning through exploration and a wide range of challenges, creating a more exciting nursery experience. We also ensure to create a safe space for each child, we aim for all our children to always feel equal, loved and valued.

Our Vision:

Here at Marshmallows Day Nursery, we have a vision, we aim to bring this to life by continuing to maintain the highest quality nursery education and care; incorporated with enjoyable learning experiences. We take great pride in providing a safe and loving environment and we aim to always better ourselves as this will benefit our children in all areas.

Our Values:

Learning for life – To continuously meet the needs of all children by engaging them in the highest quality nursery education.

Happiness – We believe that happier children are healthier children, we promote happiness and joy by following our children’s interests and creating fun, playful learning.

Keeping everyone safe – we make it a prime responsibility to provide a safe environment where the welfare and well-being of a child is maintained. We ensure to follow all correct safeguarding policies and procedures and ensure our staff are always up to date with training.

Everybody matters – we aim to promote a culture of diversity and opportunity where everyone is respected, valued and differing needs are met. Equality is a key part of the Early Years Foundation Stage framework, which aims to ensure that all children are included and supported.

Developing partnerships with parents – learning from parents and keeping them at the centre of their child’s educational journey.

Improving ourselves – we believe there is always room for improvement, we aim to progress and grow in all areas of our role as Early Years Practitioners.

Our Staff

Our team here at Marshmallows demonstrate warmth and a natural ability to care for babies and young children. Our staff members recognise the importance of working in partnership with parents.

We ensure that staff take part in regular in house and external training, so they are able to acquire, maintain and develop up to date knowledge and understanding of the childcare issues that are integral to our commitment to providing high quality and inclusive childcare.

We guarantee that during your child’s time here at Marshmallows Day Nursery, your child will be cared for by a loving team of qualified Early Years Practitioners. Each child is allocated a keyworker who will provide care and support them during their time throughout their journey.

All our staff are Level 3 qualified in childcare and undergo enhanced DBS checks. Our staff are trained in Paediatric First Aid and Safeguarding Children. Our senior team members are qualified in advanced safeguarding and SENDCO AND ENCO. This way we can ensure to protect our children, parents and staff members.