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Welcome to Puddleducks New Southgate
Located opposite the prestigious Princes Park Estate, Puddleducks New Southgate is a purpose-built nursery that opened in 2010. A fantastic colourful and fun learning environment, set back away from the main street, the nursery is set over 2 floors with beautiful modern rooms and a soft and secure outdoor play area. Each room is designed to enhance the learning environment for its respective age group. The nursery has great access to drop and collect children, excellent public transport links and even weather-proof buggy storage to help city-working parents.
An Inspiring Environment for Young Minds
Each room leader has enabled the children to flourish and decorate the walls with the children’s outstanding work following the themes throughout the year. We have a beautiful soft outdoor play area which caters to all age groups. From the vegetable patch and plant pots, to the outdoor mud kitchen or outdoor sensory area, there are plenty of things to learn about and give your child the healthy interactions they need outside.
Balal leads the Puddleducks New Southgate team with over 25 years of experience in childcare and education. All staff are fully qualified in first aid, food health & hygiene, with regular refresher training. The team works with parents to tailor their personalised child development plans, ensuring your child gets the care they need.
Additionally, we have weekly classes with Noise Makers! Noise Makers is an award-winning performance arts class focusing on acting, singing and dancing! It’s great fun and an energetic way to grow your child’s confidence and gets the whole nursery having fun together as a team. Discover more at www.noise-makers.co.uk.
Our Rooms - New Southgate Nursery
Ducklings
If your child is under 24 months, they would be one of our ducklings. Adapted to meet the needs of our youngest children the room has a homely and family feel in secure environment to explore and develop through the first stages of life.
Our staff build strong bonds with babies, ensuring there is regular honest consultation with parents to enable home routines and preferences to be maintained. They are committed to the happiness and wellbeing of your baby, providing daily entries to your baby’s personal diary to keep you up to date on progress and milestones. We pride ourselves in tailoring a development plan to your baby, with a great selection of toys and activities, we are sure they will flourish during their time with us.
Ducks
Around the age of 2, if the child is ready, they progress to the Ducks’ room. At this age children really start to understand building positive relationships and socialising with other children, so the transition is carefully planned if your child was one of our Ducklings. Whilst retaining a fun and healthy environment, through strong bonds with children and adults alike, your child will really develop their language skills and key social interactions.
The room is specially designed to give the children more choice and develop their ability to make informed decisions. With key milestones such as sharing and forgiveness, the room has stacks of toys and activities that encourage positive behaviours. This room has direct access to the secure soft outdoor play area, indoor wet/sand play area, reading zones and much more.
Key milestones that the Ducks’ are encouraged to work towards are pattern and number development, dressing up, sharing and eating independently. Group singing & story time are always a favourite for the children and everyone loves taking part. Staff will always keep you informed and involved in your child’s development.
Swans
When starting school, a child’s confidence and skills are key to a great start to school life. The room is bright and lively with displays of the children’s work all around, helping them feel they are contributing to the nursery environment and build those skills. Designed to encourage independent development, the room has numerous activity zones – ensuring the children are ever occupied learning in a fun way.
Starting with growing the seeds in small pots, to planting them in the raised garden beds, the Swans are the proud owners of the nurseries fruit and vegetable supply! Learning to look after the plants and care for them over time is a key learning and hopefully they will be bringing home some of their fresh produce before you know it.
There is an ever-changing range of toys and tools to help the children fully develop both emotional and physical characteristics. Puddleducks provides more than just day care- we offer a full pre-school curriculum.
Fees & Dates
At Puddleducks we are committed to offering great quality childcare at affordable and competitive prices. We have a clear and transparent pricing structure, and should you require any further information, please feel free to contact the nursery manager who will be happy to discuss your requirements further.
Fees based of 51 weeks a year, paid monthly in advance:
- Daily – £83
- AM Session (08:00 – 13:00) – £54
- PM Session (13:00 – 18:00) – £48
Extra sessions:
- Full day – £83
- Hourly rate – £12
Registration/Admin Fee (non-refundable) – £100
Please speak to the manager for a full list of fees with terms and conditions. The nursery is closed between Christmas and New Year.
This nursery accepts all Childcare vouchers, government funding and tax-free childcare schemes.
Ofsted
We are delighted that Puddleducks Nursery New Southgate has been awarded ‘Good’ in all areas by Ofsted. To view a copy of our report simple click on the icon displayed.
Key highlights:
- Staff know how children learn and develop – they provide a good range of learning experiences and adapt the learning environment based on children’s interests and different levels of development. All children are motivated and make good progress as a result.
- Children settle well, they are confident and happy in the nursery. Staff use information provided by parents effectively to support children’s move from home to the setting.
- Parents regularly talk with their child’s key person and receive information about their child’s learning and developmental progress overall.
- The provider and the manager monitor the quality of the provision effectively. They reflect on staff’s, children’s and parents’ views to help them make ongoing improvements that benefit the children.
- The staff team works very well together. The manager provides efficient coaching for all staff and meetings that ensure they receive support and training.
- Staff provide consistency of care to all children.
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Our Manager: Balal Arshad