Blogs

24th January 2020

Making predictions and testing ideas

MAKING PREDICTIONS AND TESTING IDEAS One of our amazing children arrived at nursery and had a BIG question for Holly. “How tall are you Holly?” 5ft 7in Holly responded “I think that is 19 trains long Kim” the child replied. […]

24th October 2019

Searching for pumpkins

Some of the children went on an adventure on Tuesday in search of pumpkins, along the way the children had lots of questions for Sarah and Holly: Where might we find pumpkins? What can we do with the pumpkins? Will […]

4th October 2019

Coming to a home near you…………. The Everywhere Bear

Everywhere Bear……….. Have you met our Everywhere Bear yet? he will be making an appearance at every child’s house over the year to spend a week with them making memories and going on any family adventures if you wish. He […]

13th September 2019

Settling into nursery life

Starting nursery can be enormously beneficial for your child and you as a family, it can also be an anxious time too. Here is an insight into what we do to make the process of settling your child into nursery […]

6th August 2019

MedicAlert Awareness

In nursery we have children with allergies to certain foods, we have one child who has severe allergies to various foods and reactions can range from rashes and hives to the most serious of reactions anaphylaxis and the need to […]

5th July 2019

Our Wonderful Week

As always we have had a wonderful week at Kirkgate Childcare!! Our week started with a visit to Sherburn Library to enjoy story time, included lots of time outside come rain or shine- potion making, re-enacting racing, practicing our throwing […]

What people say about us

Lovely nursery with friendly attentive staff. My daughter, with additional medical needs, made firm bonds with staff and was given the highest level of care. would definitely recommend.

Kirsty F

An absolutely outstanding nursery. My daughter has been going since she turned two, and she has learnt so much from communication, numbers to making friends and lovely manners! The staff are very kind to the children and teach them to be kind to others. It’s not like any other nursery, they go out on trips…

Collette

Both my children have attended kirkgate childcare and I couldn't be happier with our experience. They did a wonderful job preparing my daughter to go off to school, encouraging her to speak out when she's not happy. I was very anxious with my son starting due to him having a life threatening condition, however the…

Lucy

We cannot recommend Kirkgate Childcare enough, from the staff’s efforts to help settle our daughter when she first started, to the diversity of all the activities and outings offered, and the lovely and kind staff who cannot do enough to ensure the children are happy and learning. Dawn and her team are amazing!

Charlotte

Kirkgate childcare is an amazing nursery. My daughter loves going there. The setting is completely child centred and staff are highly skilled. They genuinely care about each child’s individuality and follow and celebrate their interests. All staff have worked to develop a lovely relationship with my daughter, particularly, her key worker, who she loves! My…

Fiona

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