Little Owls Nursery Ltd
Welcome to our nest.....
"Children are not things to be moulded,
but people to be unfolded"
Jo Hardy is the Director and Nursery Manager of Little Owls who works directly alongside the nursery team and is supported by the two nursery Deputy Managers -Lauren and Lisa.
Together Jo and the team share similar values and a shared vision that children only get to be little once. Our team have worked together for many years and this working relationship is fundamental in empowering, and driving our our children to be the best they can be.
The team believe that our children should feel that they have a voice, to feel secure, safe and loved, and that the whole child is developed and key workers strive to reach your child's highest potential.
We have 3 nursery SENCOs at Little Owls along with our Snowys owls leader Alice who has a SEND qualification. These staff are experienced and trained to carry out targeted speech and language Therapy with the support of a NHS therapist and activities given by the Councils STePS team for children who needed additional support.
Charlotte is based in Barn Owls (preschool) also has a wealth of experience with Speech and Language and supporting children especially with ASD. Alice our Snowys room leader (2-3 years) is able to BSL and Charlotte Makaton. Charlotte is also a ASD champion
Jo is the Safeguarding lead within Little Owls, alongside the deputy managers Lisa and Lauren.
Jo is onsite each day, with the nursery senior managers to ensure the smooth running of the nursery. The team are also available daily give advice, support our families.
Each room has a room lead who is responsible for the management of the rooms day.
Tawny Owls (0-2 years) -Lisa is one of the Deputy mangers and Tawny leader
Lisa is supported by Leah ,Maddison and Lilly
Snowy Owls (2-3 years)- Alice is the Snowy owls room leader and is supported by Nicole, Alex, Becky, and Lucy
Barn owls (3-4 years)-Lauren-is one of the Deputy mangers and Barn leader
Lauren is supported by Charlotte, Attiyah, Jackie, Noura and Rommany
Our qualified staff are key workers. These staff have been trained in a childcare qualification to support the children with feeling safe and secure, developing independence, sharing skills, to recognising their name, shapes and colours, learning phonics and writing their names and numbers. Each session we have a letters and sounds activity to support children's pre-reading skills and our older Barn Owls children, to develops their phonics knowledge.
Our Nursery is split into 3 sections.
Tawny Owls, Snowy Owls and Barn Owls
Unlike most day nurseries, we offer a more relaxed approach to our setting, Jo will often snuggling the babies or helping Lisa and Leah with a teething baby. Our rooms flow in a way older siblings and cousins are welcome to visit their baby brother, sister or cousin, and they are able to say "hello" or join in helping feed their baby sister or brother their bottle of milk.
Our Tawny owls is ran by Lisa. Lisa is an experienced Baby room leader. Jo and Lisa have worked together for many years. Their vision and values are similar and they way they value and understand that babies are little, amazing people who are exploring each day, finding new adventures and ways of discovering things.
We have an indoor play space for Tawny Owls and also we have a separate safe garden for our under 3's.
Lisa and her team will support their play in the garden to join in turn taking on the slide, or taking part in story time or gardening.
We are extremely fortunate to have a large big renovated church hall, where we have separate, purpose built kitchen, separate toilet area, and our wonderful, "hands on" garden where our children can explore in all seasons!
We also have our own kitchen, and Ann as our nursery cook, who cooks our meals onsite each day.
