Songbirds Hedon

About this day nursery

Songbirds Hedon is a nurturing nursery that strives to offer a "home-from-home" setting. The nursery values its team, believing that happy staff create a positive learning environment.

Songbirds Hedon focuses intently on the early years of a child's life, providing high-quality care and education tailored to individual needs in a respectful, relaxed atmosphere. The highly skilled practitioners aim to foster curious thinkers and learners who are eager to explore, encouraging strong communication skills by modelling language and expanding vocabulary.

The curriculum is child-centred and integrates various topics and extracurricular activities to ignite awe and wonder, building on children's home experiences through wider community visits. The nursery aims to develop children's resilience, ambition, and integrity, preparing them with the cultural capital needed to become confident individuals.

The child-led approach means that activities are free-flowing and adapted to children's interests, covering all seven areas of learning outlined in Development Matters through inspired activities and celebrations of special days. Community experiences are also central to the nursery's ethos, helping children develop empathy, self-esteem, and valuable life skills such as problem-solving and responsibility.

Our ethos

At Songbirds we pride our settings on strong family ethos, a home-from-home feel. It’s something we believe to be at the heart of Songbirds and vital to our nurseries. We try our best to create a setting in which our team know that they are valued and supported, and not just there to do a ‘job’. A healthy, happy team creates a healthy, happy nursery environment and a positive friendly atmosphere for the children to flourish in. Our ethos is that children’s early years are the most important years of their lives. Here at Songbirds, we strive to provide high quality childcare and education for all children that is appropriate to their individual needs. This is provided for in a positive, respectful, relaxed, and homely environment, by supportive adults sensitive to the individual needs of the child and their family. The learning environment is fundamental in providing the children with a sense of security, belonging and effective learning. Supporting and meeting the needs of both children and their families is paramount at Songbirds and working in partnership with parents to ensure all children’s development and educational needs are consistently met.

What it's like

Nursery leaders foster a strong vision that places children's happiness at the heart of everything they do. They plan an exciting curriculum that is aspirational for all, but still focuses on children's individual care and learning needs. The homely ethos that is promoted across the nursery helps children develop a strong sense of belonging, and children thrive forming strong emotional bonds with their key person and other staff.