Your trusted day nursery in Shropshire
Chatterbox Day Nursery & Out of School Club provides quality daycare and after-school
services. We have 26 years of experience working with children from the age of 3 months to 12 years. We provide your children with full and part-time care, with freshly cooked meals in our setting.
Our mission is to deliver quality childcare for our local families. Your child is safe in our hands. We have a great reputation with the locals for providing quality childcare. We believe in laying a secure foundation for their social and emotional development.
We have an appointed child protection officer and all our DBS checked staff is trained to maintain cordial relations with parents and guardians, keeping you updated on your child’s development from time to time. We constantly provide training to our staff, ensuring they are efficient and qualified to give individual attention to a child and help cater to their needs.
We ensure your child is happy and is comfortable in their surroundings, learning and developing. We arrange outing and visits for children and encourage their overall development.
We have funded places available for children between the age of 3 months and 5 years. We operate from one location in Ludlow, Shropshire which is at Ludlow Junior School.
Why choose us?
Freshly prepared meals
Effective behaviour management policies
DBS checked staff
OFSTED inspected
The Early Years Foundation Stages (EYFS)
At Chatterbox Day Nursery, we work on the statutory framework called the Principles into Practice and this is applicable in the Early Years Foundation Stages (EYFS). We have three rooms in our nursery - the baby room, the toddler room
and the pre-school room. Each room works alongside the EYFS and follows this framework, which is further based on four themes. The themes include - a unique child, positive relationships, enabling environments, and learning and development.
The principles of the EYFS
- Every child is a competent learner from birth and can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.
- Children learn to be strong and independent, based on loving and secure relationships with parent/carer/key person
- The environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children's development and learning
- Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates, and all areas of learning and development are equally important and inter-connected
- In the learning and development there are seven different areas. The first three are 'Prime Areas' and the other four are called 'Specific Areas'
Seven areas of learning and development
- Personal, social and emotional
- Physical development
- Communication and language
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the world
- Expressive arts and design
Key person to pay individual attention
All our rooms have a key person to pay individual attention to each child, speak to their parents or guardians, and reassure the child of their safety and care. The key person at Chatterbox Day Nursery normally has a limited group, enabling them to observe and manage the children more efficiently and effectively. The key person is also responsible to maintain the profile book or tracking document for each child. The parents can read it for observations and suggestions, and can get in touch with us. For children above two years of age, practitioners will write a learning and development summary which will be shared with parents, carers and health visitors.