Willow Tree Nursery in Pudsey Leeds

About this day nursery

Willow Tree Nursery, nestled a short distance from Pudsey Park and the bus station, provides a nurturing environment for children aged 3 months to 11 years. Operated by experienced early years practitioners, this OFSTED-rated "Good" provision focuses on fostering life skills, friendships, and confidence in a homely atmosphere.

The nursery offers full day care and wraparound services for local school children, alongside a holiday club for all primary school-aged children. Emphasising a philosophy of love, laughter, exploration, and growth, Willow Tree Nursery strives to create a fun and stimulating space that inspires curiosity and development.

The team is dedicated to safeguarding well-being, building resilience, and promoting respect, inclusivity, and a sense of belonging among all children, families, and staff. They prioritise strong partnerships with families and the community, ensuring every child feels valued and supported in reaching their full potential.

The nursery aims to maintain a positive ethos, creating lasting memories through challenging, supportive, and motivating learning experiences both indoors and outdoors.

Our ethos

Where we Love, Laugh, Explore and Grow. Offering a fun and stimulating environment designed to nurture and inspire, enabling exploration and growth. We keep everyone safe, support well-being and build resilience for ALL. We value respect, inclusion, feeling loved and nurtured, achieving our very best, supporting opportunity, and a feeling of belonging. We offer a welcoming environment and appreciate each other, ensuring quality interaction and engagement with children, families and staff, where everyone feels valued and respected regardless of religion, belief or race. Through working in partnership with families and our community, we value each other as an individual where everyone matters. Everyone has a voice and a right to be understood and respected. We foster a caring, settled and stable environment where children feel their well-being is at the heart of the nursery. Practitioners support their physical and mental health and emotional well-being through supportive, responsive and holistic approaches. Together we can recognise, support and celebrate our children's achievements and developments in nursery, at home and in the community through promoting their curiosity, investigation, discovery and enquiring minds. Children have freedom to participate in fun experiences that have been mapped from their interests both indoors, outdoors and within the community environment, where they are supported in being risk aware, understand risk benefits and engage with equality experience, interaction and play spaces. We cherish a sense of relationship by supporting children to understand their values, contributions and kindness in a culturally diverse and thriving community. We aspire to maintain a positive ethos in a happy, caring, stimulating, in the moment setting, creating lasting memories. Practitioners challenge, support, scaffold and motivate their learning ensuring all children reach their full potential.

What it's like

Children are happy, safe and secure at this nursery. They develop good levels of independence and acquire many skills, preparing them for the future. Babies settle well and explore the world, while two-year-olds are keen to recognise the first letter of their name.