Jayne's Nursery

11/09/2026

Our hearts are heavy today as we share the news that Grandma (Jayne’s Mother), the long-time heart of the Jaynes Nursery kitchen, has peacefully passed away.
For years, she didn't just cook for the children; she fed their spirits with endless warmth, patience, and love. To generations of little ones, she was the comforting face who always knew exactly how to make them smile, and bake the most legendary apple pies that filled the nursery with warmth.
When she wasn't nurturing the children from the kitchen, she was pouring her love into her knitting, creating beautiful pieces with the same care and patience she brought to everything else in life. Grandma knitted so many little jumpers and cardigans for the children as Christmas gifts, and all of our lovely warm balaclavas that the children still use today to keep them warm in Winter. She truly wrapped our community in her warmth, stitch by stitch and meal by meal.
We will miss her laughter, her wisdom, and her unconditional love every single day. Rest in peace, Grandma.

05/09/2026

Yesterday we offered all our staff a full day’s Safeguarding training, due to all the new guidance from September 2026.
We could see there was a lot to cover and we wanted all our staff to learn about our nursery’s recent internal safeguarding audit. We knew this would help them learn about all the areas that need to be thought about and how we cover this to make our nursery safe for children and adults.
This event was also an opportunity to read all our new Safeguarding Policies and get all our staff fully up to date at the same time.
We encouraged our staff to come forward and talk about areas of safeguarding that were important to them, giving them an opportunity to experience teaching, presenting in front of others and practicing leadership.
Our management team value the benefits from these experiences as they inspire and motivate colleagues.
Everyone commented on how much they had learnt, and hadn’t fully realised just how much was involved in Safeguarding in early years.
Everyone enjoyed pastries for breakfast, home cooked food for dinner and a little Prosecco to celebrate another successful year at Jayne’s nursery, our breakfast and after school club and Nature Nursery.

26/08/2026

We have two days left available in our older baby group (Thursday and a Friday) full days, age around 1.5 years if you are still looking for a place for your little one.
This would be a September start, however can be end of September.
If you are in need of this, then please email Jayne on [email protected]

20/08/2026

Could you help us?
To offer safer sleeping for all the children in our nursery, and to comply with updated regulations, we have decided to change most of our bedding to fitted sheets.
If anyone has finished using their cot sized fitted sheets, we could certainly make good use of them. We are also looking for baby sleep sacks (all sizes) to help keep them warm in winter.
We would appreciate any donations. These can be dropped to our setting at 126 Main Road, Broomfield CM1 7AG or drop us a message and we can arrange to collect.
Many thanks,
Jayne’s Nursery

09/08/2026

Jayne and Sonya’s 2nd podcast is out now!

In this inspiring new episode of the Best Practice Network Apprenticeship Podcast, hosts Emma Minchella and Tatia Singleton sit down with two passionate Early Years leaders: Jane Cockedge, owner and manager of Jane’s Nature Nurseries, and Sonia Chesmer, to explore how sustainability can be meanin....

26/07/2026

Could you help us?
To offer safer sleeping for all the children, we have decided to change most of our bedding to fitted sheets.
If anyone has finished using their cot sized fitted sheets, we could certainly make good use of them.
We would appreciate any donations.
Many thanks,
Jayne’s nursery.

20/07/2026

Jayne’s nursery is seeking to find a nursery educator for 4 days a week from September 2026. Our requirements are below:

• Be qualified at level 3
• Must have at least 5 years
years experience in Early Years
• Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays,
and Fridays
• Hours 8-6pm
• This role is split between our 2
settings
• Would be helpful to have a
sustainable interest
• Have a love for outside education
• 20 holiday days off per year pro
rota
• Birthday off with pay
• Week off between Christmas and
new year with pay
• Pension available

If you are interested in this position, then please contact Jayne at [email protected]
or call Jayne on 07950474941

29/06/2026

What a fantastic, inspiring and motivational day some of our team had visiting Jayne's Nursery/The Nature Nursery in Broomfield on Saturday.

They are well renowned for their strong sustainability ethics, the positive changes they have made the their practice and the connection to nature they instill in the children, as we too strive for here at Jesters. 🌍💚

For settings and practitioners to learn from each other this way is an invaluable experience we were all grateful for. Our Jesters Climate Action Plan will benefit from this interaction and inevitably the children - the future stewards of our planet, will too!

Thank you Jayne's Nursery for opening your beautiful doors.

29/06/2026

Jayne & I felt very excited and honoured to be asked to record a podcast with Best Practice to discuss Corporate Social Responsibility.
If you are interested you can have a listen here.
Look out for our second appearance very soon!

What does Corporate Social Responsibility really look like in an early years setting? In this inspiring episode, we speak with Jayne Cocksedge and Sonya Cheesmur from Jane's Nature Nursery about how sustainability, community engagement, and ethical leadership can transform children's learning exp...

14/06/2026