Tiny Tots Day Nursery

✨WE ARE RECRUITING✨
At Tiny Tots Day Nursery, we are passionate about providing a safe, nurturing, and stimulating environment where children can learn, play, and thrive. We are looking for enthusiastic and caring Early Years Educators to join our dedicated team.
�About the Role
As an Early Years Educator, you will support children's learning and development through play-based activities while ensuring their safety, wellbeing, and happiness. You will work closely with colleagues and families to provide high-quality childcare and education in line with the EYFS framework.
�Key Responsibilities
* Support children's learning and development through engaging activities.
* Create a warm, safe, and inclusive environment for all children.
* Observe, assess, and record children's progress.
* Build positive relationships with children, parents, and colleagues.
* Follow safeguarding, health and safety, and nursery policies.
* Contribute to planning exciting learning opportunities.
* Maintain high standards of care and professionalism.
�What We're Looking For
* Level 3 Early Years qualification
* Knowledge of the EYFS framework.
* A genuine passion for working with young children.
* Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
* A positive, caring, and enthusiastic attitude.
* Previous nursery experience is desirable but not essential.

Tiny Tots Day Nursery is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All candidates are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references, and relevant suitability checks.
If you are interested please email your CV to
[email protected]

Join Our Team – Dinner Time Support Staff ⭐️

We’re looking for a warm, friendly, and reliable team member to support our nursery during dinner time. This is a wonderful opportunity to be part of a caring environment where children feel safe, happy, and well looked after.
What you’ll be doing:
* Preparing and setting up the dining area for children’s dinner
* Supporting and encouraging children during mealtime in a calm, positive way
* Serving dinner and promoting good table manners
* Clearing away and cleaning the dining area after meals
* Working closely with the nursery team to maintain a safe and nurturing environment
What we’re looking for:
* A kind, patient, and approachable nature
* Enjoyment of working with young children
* Good teamwork and communication skills
* Reliability and punctuality
* Previous experience in childcare or hospitality is helpful, but not essential
Why join us?
* Supportive and welcoming nursery team
* A rewarding role making a real difference to children’s daily routines
* Opportunity to gain experience in an early years setting.

All roles are subject to safeguarding checks, including an enhanced DBS, in line with childcare regulations. Food hygiene and first aid training is required for the role but can be provided by setting.
If you’re passionate about creating a positive mealtime experience for children, we’d love to hear from you.
Please email us on [email protected]

Thank you ☺️

⭐️⭐️WE ARE RECRUITING⭐️⭐️
Due to an increase in numbers we are looking for flexible Full time and Part time Early Year's Practitioners to join our team!
We are looking for Educators who are qualified to Level 3, and fully flexible to work between the hours of 7:30 - 6 Monday - Friday.
The right people will be enthusiastic, reliable, caring and confident working as part of a team.
Working in an Early Year's Setting, you will be a den builder, story teller, artist, good at make believe play and happy to get messy while helping our little ones to learn and have fun.
If you are interested in joining our team, please email your CV and request an application form from [email protected]
All positions offered are subject to an enhanced DBS check and receipt of suitable references.
We look forward to hearing from you.

⭐️⭐️WE ARE RECRUITING⭐️⭐️
We are looking a Full time Early Year's Senior to join our team!
We are looking for a Senior who is qualified to Level 3, and fully flexible to work between the hours of 7:30 - 6 Monday - Friday.
The right people will be enthusiastic, reliable, caring and confident working as part of a team as well as leading one and running the day to day routine of a room.
Working in an Early Year's Setting, you will be a den builder, story teller, artist, good at make believe play and happy to get messy while helping our little ones to learn and have fun.
If you are interested in joining our team, please email your CV and request an application form from [email protected]
All positions offered are subject to an enhanced DBS check and receipt of suitable references.
We look forward to hearing from you.

⭐️TODDLER ROOM⭐️

We have been busy enhancing our toddler room, switching up some areas to capture the children’s interest and provide new learning opportunities.

We have updated our reading garden, making it feel cosy for the children to snuggle up up with a blanket and grab a cushion to sit back and enjoy a book either with independently, with friends or a practitioner. We have a variety of both fiction and none fiction books for the children to explore as well as story sacks with props. Our reading garden is a communication friendly space for our little ones to enjoy a cuddle, explore a book or activity or just chat away. We also have our song box with props which our littles ones love taking part in. We do our carpet times here where we say good morning, explore the weather and what day it is as well as remind each other of our golden rules. We also have our colour of the month which our little ones love exploring and finding objects of the same colour. 📚🌻🎶❄️🌦️🌈

Our creative area offers lots of choice for the children to explore. We have multiple activities on the go so children have choice of what they take part in. Activities are based on children’s interest and planning 😊. Activities include mark making, painting, stamp printing, cutting and sticking, playdough, shaving foam paint, gloop and so much more. We ask lots of open end questions and use lots of descriptive language and praise. ✏️🎨🖌️✂️

We have our sand and water area for the children to explore. We have lots of activities to support fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination such as pouring and emptying watering, scooping sand. We use lots of language like ‘the sand is soft’ as well an encourage mathematical development ‘I have 2 ducks in the water’. We’re always changing up activities in this area to suit planning and interests and sometimes another activities such as gloop and shaving foam. This area offers lots of messy fun and plenty of learning opportunities. 🪣🏖️⛵️🦆

Our home corner is a safe space for our little ones to explore role playing, whether this be using the dressing up clothes to support imaginative play, role playing doctors, firefighters, vets etc. Our children enjoy exploring the kitchen pretending to make food or cups of tea, they do this independently or in a group, keeping the play going. We have lots of resources to support all play activities including babies too with pushchairs, clothing, potties and highchairs. This area offers lots of different learning opportunities that can be incorporated into the children’s play I.e mathematics to weigh out ingredients when making food, small world to copy home life experiences or to talk about special events from home I.e someone’s birthday so you get the birthday cake out to sing happy birthday. We also celebrate different festivals in this area too which our children love learning about 🍳⏲️⚖️🩺🍼👩‍💼🥢

Our music area has lots of instruments and song cards for our children to join in with, they can make their own music and songs or sing along to familiar nursery rhymes. We also add resources from other areas such as home corner pots and pans for the children to experiment making new sounds 🥁🎺🎸🎹🪇

Our smallworld area has been enhanced and changes regularly to support planning and children’s interest. This area is very popular as our children love exploring different animals whether this be farm, safari, antarctic. We explore different set ups such as train track, children use imagination to where the train is going ‘to the shops’ or ‘to the seaside’. We have police, fire station, hospitals with vehicles and figures to support and much more. We extend our learning in this area by going on walks in the community, pointing out what we can see, talking about past experiences and much more. Our children look exploring books based on life cycles too, their favourite is The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐘🐖🐬🐛🚂🚒

Our construction area is brilliant for little ones to use imagination to build things, with a variety of tools and resources to support their play. We have linked to construction area to urban junk too so children can explore different materials to build. Our children enjoy dressing up ready to be on the worksite and use toolbox and clipboards to support their imaginations 🚧🔨🧱📋

Our physical development area offers the opportunity for children to explore large movement activities indoors as well as outdoors. Other activities include bowling, catching and throwing a ball, bean bag toss and much more 🎳⚽️🏀

Our atelier area which is also linked to loose arts play is filled with lots of natural restores for the children to experiment and express themselves with, this links into talking about different feelings and emotions. The children can create patterns and make collages. They can explore the materials they have, describe how they feel, how they look, the size of them and also take part in activities such as matching numeral to quantity 🐚🍃🍁🪵

⭐️BABY ROOM⭐️
We have been busy enhancing our baby room for our babies to enjoy and explore helping their development to grow.

Our cosy area has a tipi to offer a communication friendly space which our babies often enjoy having a cuddle with a practitioner whilst looking at a book or singing songs or babbling to their friends 😊. We have lots of black and white resources for our babies to explore which help develop their vision, eye muscles and visual pathways. We have a ball pit which is a big hit, our babies to explore the different coloured balls, exploring the feel of time and passing them from hand to hand. 🖤🤍📚🎶

Our home corner provides role play opportunities for our babies, they get to see similarities they see at home like pots, pans, utensils which they love turning into instruments. Our older babies who are almost ready to transition into toddlers enjoy starting to take part in pretend play in this area. Our practitioners use lots of language when exploring with the babies to help develop their communication and language skills 🥣🍳🍼

Our messy area there is currently sand. The babies enjoy exploring the feel of this through their fingers, patting and digging with spades and using sand moulds to create sandcastles, shells etc and exploring different patterns using the sand rollers. Our practitioners use lots of descriptive language to support their play. As well as sand our babies also explore water play and other messy activities such as paint, mark making, shaving foam, gloop, playdough. The messier the activity the better 😊🪣💧🎨

We have a large movement area which gets changed around to help support gross motor development. Currently we have a caterpillar rocking chair which our babies love being on and singing songs such as row your boat with a practitioner and for babies who are starting to be on the move we have our walker to encourage them taking steps. We often bring out soft play blocks for the babies to climb and explore and tunnels for our babies to crawl through. This helps support physical development as well as PSED as the babies are learning to become independent by having a go themselves but also seeking out help if needed. This area can also help develop communication as practitioners are singing to the babies, talking about the colours of the blocks and the caterpillars, using language such as fast and slow and so much more learning opportunities 😊🐛🎶

Our small world is built up in different sections. We change the animal set up in relation to the children's interest. We've currently been enjoying Dear Zoo which means we have put out the zoo animals for our little ones to explore! We also have a little doll house set up for the children to enjoy! In this area we have also integrated our atelier. This allows the children to explore the natural resources and create their own set up using the materials provided to them. 🦁🍁

Our baby play and sensory area allows the little ones to explore different activities independently and discover how their actions can cause an affect. They have loved exploring the busy blocks which helps to promote their fine motor skills by holding onto objects and manoeuvring them. We also have placed interactive texture circles onto the wall. This allows the babies to explore different textures and also use their fine and gross motor skills to move the circles off the wall and place them back on! We adapt these areas to ensure they meet the needs of the children in setting. 🌈

The music area creates a space for little ones to be their own musician. Various different musical instruments are provided so children can explore the different noises they can make! We also have a song of the month which the children love! This creates repetitiveness for the little ones which is great for their communication and language development! 🎶🎹

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⭐️PRESCHOOL PART 2⭐️
We have also been busy enhancing the other half of our preschool learning environment. We have our large movement area which is a big hit with our children, they enjoy seeking out a challenge and looking for ways to achieve this with help from friends and practitioners. Children enjoy climbing the climbing frame, balancing on the stepping stones and with adult supervision exploring the trampette. We have skittles so children can playing bowling and we encourage them to talk about how many skittles they have knocked down and use language such as fast and slow when describing how the ball rolled towards the skittles. We do yoga, sensory circuit and lots more activities to support physical development and support other areas of learning too. 🎳🧘🧘‍♀️⚽️

Our music area where children can explore musical instruments, use resources around the room such as pots and pans to create their own instruments or just enjoy singing songs, doing actions or even making their own up 🎸🥁🪇🎤

Our sand and water area is always available for the children to explore. We have lots of resources to support their play and encourage lots of language when exploring such as descriptive language ‘the sand is soft’ and mathematically language ‘my bucket is half full, my bucket is empty now’ ‘I have 3 shells’ etc. Water and sand is always out but changes to suit interests and children’s planning. We also include other activities such as shaving foam, gloop and other messy play. This area offers lots of fun and plenty of learning opportunities 🪣🏖️💧🐠⛵️

We have our reading area which our children love getting a blanket and snuggling up either independently, with a friend or an adult and exploring a variety of fiction and none fiction books. We provide a communication friendly space for the children to chat to their friends or adult about the book or about what they got up to weekend or what they have played with today etc. We have story sacks with props for the children to act out a story and a song bag incase the children fancy singing rather than reading. 📚🎶
We also have our phonics station which our older preschools love, they love taking part in letter of the week, singing the song and thinking of words that start with that letter I.e this week is the letter ‘Dd’ so children have explored words such as ‘dog, drums and dinosaur’. An activity is set up weekly to support children in recognising and forming letters such as can you form the letter in the sand? ✏️

Our creative area offers lots of choice for the children to explore. We have 3 activities on the go once that the children can take part in and these vary daily to suit planning and children’s interest 😊. Some examples are playdough, painting, animal printing, cloud dough, slime, shaving foam paint, cutting and sticking, sticky pictures, collaging and much more! We ask lots of opening end questions and encourage the children to talk about what they’re creating, we encourage descriptive language and offer other learning opportunities too I.e maths is incorporated when making playdough as they have to weigh and measure the ingredients 🎨✂️✍️⚖️

⭐️PRESCHOOL⭐️
The last couple of week we have started to enhance our preschool environment. We have switched up some areas to provide new learning opportunities, capture the children’s interest and to extend their play and keep it going by adding new resources 😊. We have updated our Atelier and linked it with loose art play. Our Atelier area is filled with natural resources for children to explore, experiment and express themselves. They can create patterns, make collages using the frames and natural resources. Children can explore mathematics in this area by recognising size, talking about shapes, counting, matching numeral to quantity and so much more we also encourage lots of descriptive language to describe the resources and talk about their creation’s 🐚🍂🪵.

We have moved our cosy/sensory area which has been a big hit with all children 😊. We have a communication friendly space for the children to enjoy, lights and voiles to create a calm environment. Lots of colourful resources/activities for the children to engage in. We do alot of focused activities in this area to support all learning areas. We also have a feeling section where children can safely talk about how they are feeling and why as well as learn and express new feelings and thoughts💭🌈😊☹️

Our small world has been enhanced to create multiple sets ups for the children to engage in. This area is very popular, our children love to learn about the world, different animals and their habitats and fun facts about them. The children enjoy being imaginative with the animals and creating a narrative into their play. We switch this area up to fit in with children’s interest and planning. We extend and support learning in this area this by going on walks in our community to see what we can see I.e what animals, pointing out if they see a fire engine and what they’re for etc. 🐘🐧🐖🚒🚓

Our construction area also links with urban junk and provides lots of opportunities to exploring different materials, building and creating things with them, allowing children to think of their own ideas and work as a team. Our children enjoy use their imagination to create a worksite where they can the construction dress up, tools and resources to support their play. 🧱🚧🔨

Our home corner is a safe space for children to role-play, whether this be cooking dinner, looking after a baby or dressing up as doctor, fireman, dentist etc. Children have lots of resources to support their play and is a great area for independent playing or playing as a group. Lots of learning opportunities comes from this area such as using mathematics to weigh out ingredients when baking, lots of language to describe what they are doing now and what the next step is, imagination and copying experiences from their home life. We also celebrate different festivals in this area too which the children all love to learn about. 🍳🥣🍼🩺

All of our areas provide lots of play and learning opportunities and all have a variety of fiction/none fiction books for the children to enjoy looking at and exploring whether this be independent, with an adult or in a group 📚

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