Opening hours
7.30am to 6.00pm Monday-Friday (Closed between Christmas/New Year and Public Holidays)
ABC Day Nursery, nestled in Melksham, offers a vibrant and nurturing environment for children aged 0-5 years. The nursery focuses on fostering individuality, creativity, confidence, and independence through a blend of child-initiated play and exploration.
Emphasising interaction with both natural and man-made elements, the nursery provides open-ended resources tailored to each child's learning style. A unique feature is the year-round free-flow access to outdoor spaces, allowing children to experience changing seasons and engage in naturally occurring learning.
These spacious outdoor areas are thoughtfully designed with quiet nooks, sensory materials, a mud kitchen, and a treehouse climbing frame, promoting diverse play and learning opportunities for different age groups. The nursery prioritises a welcoming atmosphere for all families, offering flexible settling-in sessions and dedicated Key Persons to ensure smooth transitions and strong parent-nursery relationships.
Freshly cooked, nutritious meals, prepared on-site, contribute to the holistic care provided, all supported by a highly trained, experienced, and dedicated team.
Our ethos
ABC Day Nursery's approach is a blend of child-initiated play and exploration, fostering individuality, creativity, confidence, and independence. They emphasise interaction with natural and man-made elements, using open-ended resources tailored to each child's learning style, with a unique feature of year-round free-flow access to thoughtfully designed outdoor spaces that promote diverse play and learning opportunities.
What it's like
Children are happy and settled in a welcoming nursery; babies form secure relationships with staff and children behave well, showing good social skills. The manager is passionate and has high ambitions for all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
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7.30am to 6.00pm Monday-Friday (Closed between Christmas/New Year and Public Holidays)
Food
Freshly cooked nutritious meals prepared on-site
Age range
0-5 years
Term time / All Year
All Year
Established
2016
Last inspected 11 July 2024 · Claire Owen
What it's like to attend
Children are happy and settled in a welcoming nursery; babies form secure relationships with staff and children behave well, showing good social skills. The manager is passionate and has high ambitions for all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
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Areas to develop
Inclusion & environment
The manager has high ambitions for all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. The special educational needs coordinator spoke to the inspector about how they support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
Children develop physical skills in the large, well-equipped outdoor area where they climb, balance, kick and throw balls and ride bikes. The outdoor area includes several play sheds (builders' yard, doctor's surgery, fruit and vegetable stall and café) set up with children's interests in mind.
Date: October 2018
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