Food
Meals, nappies, wipes and other essentials included.
Teddies Day Nursery and Preschool provides a nurturing environment for children in Sheffield. The nursery focuses on a balanced approach to early education, ensuring children are happy and healthy while promoting their development.
They offer an all-inclusive "Bright Bundle" that covers exceptional care, early learning, nutritious meals, and essential items such as nappies and wipes. The curriculum, known as "The Nurture Approach," focuses on laying foundations for children to thrive, incorporating five key learning areas into activities that build practical and life skills.
The nursery also emphasises outdoor adventures, with dedicated spaces for exploration, Forest School activities, and involvement in the Eco-Schools programme. The staff are described as passionate and inspiring, dedicated to making a positive difference in each child's day.
Parent feedback highlights the creative daily activities for babies and the frequent updates provided through a dedicated app, fostering a strong connection between the nursery and families. The nursery also provides support for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and offers settling-in sessions to ensure a smooth transition for new children and their families.
What it's like
Staff get to know children's interests and plan exciting and challenging activities, leading to long periods of immersion in learning and good progress in communication, language, and literacy. Staff have high expectations and work with parents to support children's learning at home, ensuring all children make good progress. Tailored settling-in sessions ensure babies settle well and explore their environment safely, fostering warm and respectful relationships.
Funding accepted
This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.
Food
Meals, nappies, wipes and other essentials included.
Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 7.30am until 6pm
Term time / All Year
All Year
Established
2007
Last inspected 15 March 2024
What it's like to attend
Staff get to know children's interests and plan exciting and challenging activities, leading to long periods of immersion in learning and good progress in communication, language, and literacy. Staff have high expectations and work with parents to support children's learning at home, ensuring all children make good progress. Tailored settling-in sessions ensure babies settle well and explore their environment safely, fostering warm and respectful relationships.
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Inclusion & environment
The special educational needs coordinator (SENCo) works in close partnership with parents and other professionals to agree targeted support that helps children make good progress. On some occasions, not all of children's support strategies are used by all staff.
Children run around the garden, looking for birds with pretend binoculars, developing their large-muscle skills. Staff also provide children with opportunities to paint and draw on a large scale outdoors, such as standing at easels, and children practise cutting fruits in the mud kitchen.
As a first-time parent, I was naturally very nervous about my son starting nursery, but now I couldn't be happier. His primary and secondary keyworkers are so warm, caring, and attentive. They have built a lovely bond with him already, and it gives me such peace of mind to know he's in such kind and capable hands. The communication is another huge positive. We get regular updates throughout the day, and I always feel well-informed about his naps, meals, and all the fun activities he's been doing. Also, they give me a good summary of how he has been at the end of the day, which show they really pay attention to him. I also like the updates on their activities, it is pretty clear that they plan them with care and purpose to help babies' development. And the biggest testament is seeing how happy our son is. He has settled in so quickly and is always calm when I drop him off and full of smiles when I pick him up. The team has completely eased all my initial worries. I can't recommend Teddies highly enough to any parent looking for a nurturing and supportive environment for their little one.
Read on GoogleMy son attended for 1 and a half years in preschool room. The first year was fine. New staff joined in the second year, that's when issues started. My son is mostly nonvebral and autistic and suddenly became terrified of going to preschool after the new staff members joined..Several staff members have attitude problems. Several incidents happened like them snapping at me or my son being left in wet clothing. Just to name a few. I have witnessed the staff shouting at children. They do nothing to engage the children, they just let them run around wild (witnessed many times). I tried to raise these issues with management and high staff on several occasions and way always made to feel like an idiot for even suggesting. I have since moved my child and he is absolutely fine and thriving in another nearby nursery. So it wasn't my son that was the issue, Teddies. You made us feel like this. It was your staff. He was never 'too much' for your nursery. If you have an autistic or special needs child I suggest looking at other nearby nurserys.
Read on GoogleIt's a fantastic school to send your child to; the first few days contributed significantly to the obvious level of service in my son's learning experience. They have a lovely team that took the time to provide feedback that shows they know and care about each child
Read on GoogleHorrific school for additional needs children, if you want your kids to be happy, safe and protected do not take them here.
Read on GoogleVery friendly, superb atmosphere!
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Date: November 2011
Teddies Nursery registered in 2007 and is situated in Sheffield. The nursery employs 30 members of childcare staff, with 21 holding appropriate early years qualifications at level 2 and above, including two with qualified teacher status. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, all year round, from 7.30am until 6pm, and provides funded early education places for two-, three- and four-year-old children.
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