Squiffle Tots Daycare

🌼 A gentle, joyful place to begin 🌈
We have a few extra enrolment places available this term!

At Squiffle Tots, childhood is celebrated slowly and beautifully. Our small group setting creates a calm, nurturing environment where children feel safe, known, and deeply cared for… just like a second home ❤️

Through play, creativity, exploration, and meaningful connection, we support little ones as they grow in confidence, curiosity, and independence… And what a privilege it is to do that!

🌿 Outdoor play is at the heart of our days!
Whether it’s splashing in puddles, digging in the sandpit, cooking in our mud kitchens, nature walks, or imaginative adventures in our treehouses - we believe a lot of the richest learning happens with muddy hands and fresh air!

👶 Small group. Big, warm hearts. Plenty of wonder.

We would love to welcome a few new families into our Squiffle Tots family!

📩 Send us a whatsapp message on 0771414988 to find out more or arrange a viewing.

Another week down and lots more steps towards finishing our renovations 🏫🧱
I keep imagining our Squiffles back at school and going about their days in these new spaces…
learning, imagining, and discovering…
and I can’t wait for that!! 🤸🏻‍♀️

Growing, gardening, planting, blooming, chickens, Easter… this term has been bright, bold, creative, hands-on, and BEAUTIFUL!! 🌿🌼💙🐣🐓

Our little school is built on love, partnership, and belief… and on the steady, quiet strength of the people who make it all possible.

Each day, so many hearts come together to keep the Squiffle Tots dream alive:
Our precious Squiffles, who fill our spaces with laughter and wonder.
Our parents, who trust us with their children, term after term.
Our incredible teachers and helpers, who nurture with patience, kindness, and care.
Our coaches and instructors, who bring energy and joy to every activity.
And the hands behind the scenes - our housekeeper, car guard, and caretaker - each playing a vital role in helping our little world flourish 🌻👣

And then, behind it all, the quiet support that holds me steady… My hubby - always encouraging, always believing, always showing up in countless ways. My heart is full of gratitude for you 🫶🏼

This tree, and this teak plaque, are a small token of a very big thank you - for the love, the support, and for helping this dream grow, season after season ❤️

Our little Squiffle hearts this term, each one so precious in their own, unique way
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It's true: Outdoor play is so much more than just having fun. It engages curiosity, risk-taking, self-knowledge, creativity, balance, gross motor development, critical thinking... and so much more!

What else would you add?

Let's get them outside!

Play over paperwork - so important in our age group!!

We need to stop asking if a four year old can write their name and start asking if they can climb a tree or hang from the monkey bars. I know it sounds counterintuitive, especially when we are bombarded with the idea that academic success starts with a workbook, but the science of child development tells a very different story.

I see it so often. A child is struggling with handwriting, not because they do not know the letters, but because they do not have the core strength to sit upright at a desk or the shoulder stability to move a pencil across a page. A worksheet is a 2D solution to a 3D problem. If the foundations of the body are not strong, the fine motor skills will always struggle to follow.

When we push children into academic tasks before their bodies are physically ready, we are not giving them a head start. We are actually setting them up for a lifetime of physical fatigue and frustration. If a child has to use all their energy just to keep their body from slumping over, they have no mental energy left for learning.

Our educators know this. When they choose a morning of climbing, digging in the mud, or navigating an obstacle course, they are doing the deep, essential work of school readiness. They are building the core, the grip strength, and the visual tracking skills that will eventually make reading and writing feel easy.

Educators, what is the one thing you wish parents understood about the importance of play over paperwork?

Parents, what is your biggest worry when it becomes to your child being ready for school?