Rainbow Unit

Opening Hours

We welcome children from 8am-6pm, Monday-Friday. We are open all year round with a couple of closure weeks through out the year. Our nursery is closed on all bank holidays and 5 training days through the year. (Once you join you will have access to the Famly calendar to view all important dates)

Our Environment

We are dedicated to providing a safe, inclusive, and nurturing environment for our little ones. Our highly skilled team ensures emotional and physical wellbeing, encouraging early developmental foundations through sensory play and exploration. We offer a secure base for creativity and fun, that stimulates curiosity and learning. Our holistic approach ensures that every child feels valued and empowered, with equal opportunities and inclusion in everything we do. Through our commitment to these principles, we create an environment where young children can thrive, explore, and develop a lifelong love of learning, setting a strong foundation for their future growth and success.

Key Relationships

We have two experienced room leaders who oversee this unit. We feel a happy environment for children leads to high levels of confidence, emotional and physical wellbeing, health and security, We provide a key person system that ensures a nurturing, healthy, safe and fully inclusive environment, enabling children to self regulate, reflect and have a secure base to thrive. Each family is valued as autonomous, celebrating their individual identity. The key person role and family relationship is an integral part of nursery life.

Ethos, curriculum and learning path

We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage which sets out the guidelines for how we work as a childcare provider. The EYFS sets out how we work together to support each child’s learning and development. There are 7 areas that we work within, these are split into Prime Areas for the under 3’s and Specific Areas (along with the Prime areas) for the over 3’s.

Our environment is set up in such a way as to enable this, following the child’s interests, building on their self esteem and scaffolding on their learning. The curriculum we work with is based on ‘Planning in the moment’. Throughout the environment, all of the different areas are defined, planned and allow for open ended play which enables the child to use their interests to develop their learning.

Visit the nursery

We invite families to book a visit to see our wonderful nursery and experience our nurturing environment in person. This will give you a sense of how Highbury Nursery can support your child's growth and become part of your family life.