The Heatons Preschool and Day Nursery- Heaton Moor Road

28/09/2026

Hello Everyone!

As we are now approaching our new Autumn term, we will be celebrating the change in season as well as the Harvest Festival!

We will be starting a collection of non-perishable food items that will be donated to Stockport Foodbank. If you kindly have any items you wish to donate, please bring them to the nursery throughout October so they can be collected at the end of the month.

Thank you!

24/09/2026

We want to welcome back all of our returning families and give a warm welcome to all of our new children and families who have joined us this September!
We have started this term with our "All About Me" topic, giving the children lots of opportunities to explore and talk about what makes us all special.

Over the past few weeks we have been exploring:

👣 Independence- Encouraging the children to make their own choices, try new things and develop confidence in doing things for themselves.

❤️ Emotions- Learning to recognise, name and express our feelings and understand how we can support each other. The 'Colour Monster' is a great book for introducing and recognising this topic!

👁️ Our Bodies- Learning about ourselves, our bodies and how to look after them.

👫 Families and Friendships- Celebrating the special people who are important to us and learning how to build positive relationships, share, take turns, listen and care for our friends.

It has been wonderful getting to know our new children and seeing our returning children settle back into nursery life!

22/08/2026

Thank you and good luck to our lovely Heatons families as our children move rooms, leave us to go to school or start a new adventure! Your kind words, gifts and cards are greatly appreciated.

A polite reminder that we are closed next week for our Summer break, we will reopen on Tuesday 1st September after the bank holiday.

21/08/2026

Our latest OFSTED report is now live!

We are absolutely delighted to share our latest Ofsted report with you. We are incredibly proud of the outcome, with 3 areas rated as Strong Standard and 3 areas as Expected Standard, alongside Safeguarding being securely met.

For anyone who is unfamiliar with the new Ofsted inspection and grading system, inspections are now no longer given one overall grade. Instead, inspectors make separate judgements across the different areas of the inspection framework.

We are especially proud that three areas were recognised as Strong, while continuing to securely meet the expected standards across the other areas. This reflects the hard work, dedication and care of our whole team, as well as the wonderful relationships we have with our children and families.

A huge thank you to our incredible staff team for everything they do every single day. And, of course, thank you to all of our families for your continued support and trust in us.

We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we have - please click the link below.

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06/08/2026

05/08/2026

Today we celebrated our Norris Room Graduation!Thank you to all those that celebrated with us and have trusted us with your child’s learning journey over the years. It’s very bitter sweet as we will be sad to see them go, but they are all so excited and more than ready for their next adventure.

They sang their hearts out today and put on a great performance and I’m sure you’re all as proud as we are.

We wish them every success in this wonderful new chapter and will miss them all very much. They will always be part of The Heaton's family, Class of 2026, you have all been fabulous!
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27/07/2026

Over the last few weeks we have been patiently waiting for our vegetables to be ready to harvest. Ian from Sustainable Living in The Heatons helped us collect our vegetables and showed us the correct process to do this. The children took turns, carefully pulling the radish plants out from the soil. They were very pleased to see their radish and lettuce leaves fully grown.

The children then enjoyed tasting the radish, whilst beaming with pride that they have grown these vegetables themselves!

As our current vegetables have all been harvested, we have now planted some potatoes. The children have learnt that vegetable seeds need lots of sunlight and water to grow and we can't wait to see how they turn out!

08/07/2026

Our website is now live!

At The Heatons Preschool and Day Nursery, we provide a warm, home-from-home environment where children feel safe, valued and inspired to learn. With two welcoming sites in Heaton Mersey and Heaton Moor, we pride ourselves on offering high-quality care and education for children from birth to five ye...

19/06/2026

This week we have enjoyed introducing, and learning all about The World Cup. We have explored activities around football, flags and teamwork.

The younger children have enjoyed scoring goals using big gross motor movements, whilst the older children have been keen to explore different countries by looking at flags and patterns and understanding the concept of a competition.

The children are feeling optimistic about Englands participation and believe we are set to be “winners”

Let’s see what the future holds ! ⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

30/05/2026

We’ve all been there – digging out that half empty bottle of sunscreen from the back of the cupboard! ☀️☀️☀️

⭐️ It's worth checking the symbol on the back of the bottle, the number reflects how long to continue using the cream from the moment it's opened, which in this case is 12 months (12M), after this period the cream will not be as effective.

💡TIP - It's a good idea to use a Sharpie to write the date you opened a bottle on the back to keep yourself safe.