Loughborough University Nursery offers a 102 place nursery for children 0-5 years for University staff, students and the local community. Our nursery has been providing children with a safe place for development, learning and play for over 35 years.

We value the opportunity to provide children a safe place for development, learning and play and recognises the responsibility we have in achieving that.

We believe that in every community there should be a service for children under five, which should honour the needs of young children, celebrate their existence and support their families. At the heart of high quality early years education is the ability to build a setting where children and adults have a sense of belonging, feel safe and secure, and have a desire to learn together.

Building a community of learners is at the heart of Loughborough University Campus Nursery. We aim to ensure that children have space and support to learn, develop a culture of collaboration, remove barriers to success and focus on positive outcomes for children and their parents.

Our nursery is situated within the University campus and is open all year except bank holidays and two weeks at Christmas, operating Monday to Friday 8am until 6pm.

If you're searching for your next education job, please get in touch. You'll be working for a great employer and be part of a friendly, helpful team. We're always interested to hear from enthusiastic, committed education professionals - send us your CV now via our Talent Pool and detail what sort of role you're looking for. By joining our Talent Pool we'll know you're interested in working here when the right vacancy comes up.

In the Discoverers room, we understand the difficulty parents often feel when leaving their children in a nursery for the first time.

We aim to:

Ensure all families feel supported during the settling in process by discussing the needs of the family and developing an individual routine for each child.

Recognise and respect that all children are individuals and differ in their skills, abilities and cultural backgrounds and incorporate this into the rooms program.

Foster each child's individual development and needs by means of encouragement, supervision and role modelling and by providing a wide range of experiences that foster all areas of development as well as taking into account each child's interests.

Provide an environment which is warm and inviting and allows the children to develop and learn new skills through play.

Our practitioners will demonstrate this through appropriate role modelling, respecting the environment and helping broaden their understanding in the world in which they live.

We will be supporting your child in developing their confidence, personal relationships, communication skills and individual talents. Using clear lines of communication between nursery staff and parents, any questions or information will be much appreciated and met warmly.

Each day at nursery the children will have the opportunity to take part in lots of fun activities painting, drawing, cutting, gluing, role play, counting, sharing a story, growing seeds or using musical instruments.

To help us to ensure your child stays comfortable throughout the day we ask you to put a couple of changes of clothes in your nursery bag along with any comforters they may use e.g. dummy, soft cloth, special soft toy.

A daily chart, which tells what your child has had to eat and drink, how much sleep they have had and how many nappies have been used.

Investigators

Our Investigators room is for children aged three and above.

• a home corner which is set out as a kitchen with units, play food, pots and pans;
• a number area where we have a variety of activities such as compare bears and spotty ladybirds;
• a writing area with paper, chalk boards, chalks, pencils, crayons, and magnetic letters for children to help themselves to;
• a cosy communication friendly space for promoting communication and language, one-to-one and small group work;
• a quiet area for looking at books;
• a dressing up clothes corner for role play;
• a creative area with interactive trays for the children to play with materials such as lentils, cornflakes, pasta and rice;
• a construction area with lego, meccano, popoids etc;
• a small world area with dolls house, farm and happy land etc;
• a computer with lots of educational games and digital video cameras for the children to record and revisit their own experiences.

We have a door opening directly out onto our large out door play space which consists of an all weather grassed area, with climbing frames and slides; a paved area, for trikes, scooters etc.; a natural resources area with open ended resources such as boxes, crates, tyres, logs and leaves for construction and a vegetable garden where the children plant and tend the fruit and vegetables tasting the end product. We enjoy our out door play area what ever the weather wearing either wellington boots and coats or sun hats and cream.

The children can access the cloak room and toilet facilities and we encourage them to be as independent as possible, finding their own coat to go out to play and hanging it back up when finished.

There are five child size toilets and wash basins for the children to use with help from staff if needed. As accidents can happen the children should have spare clothes in their nursery bags. The staff will encourage children wearing nappies to sit on the toilet or potty before their clean nappy goes on.