Claire Symons, Nursery Owner and Manager, writes:

Claire's Newport Nursery is an extension of Claire's Country Childcare in Horwood and is owned by Claire Symons. I opened Claire's Country Childcare in 1996. I have been a qualified Nursery Nurse since 1985 having worked on the Children's ward at the North Devon District Hospital since then. It was always my ambition to open my own daycare nursery and my hospital knowledge has proved to be benenficial to my nursery manager's role. I am married to a farmer and have 3 children of my own, Thomas, Oliver and Rebecca.

Claire Symons

The nursery is open 51 weeks of the year,; we have nine rooms and can take up to 48 children under 9 years of age. Ducklings caters for the youngest children this has a large playroom with a separate sleeping room next door where the babies can sleep in cots, the sleeping babies are checked at every 10 minute intervals. The toddler room is known as little turtles with a variety of toddler play materials we also have a play gym on this level with a ball pit and soft play area which all the children use and an art and craft messy room on this level for the youngest children. The older childrens room are known as leaping frogs they have four play rooms that they move around throughout the day with a variety of structured play materials throughout.
Also available is our holiday club, this caters for children between 5-8 years inclusive during all School holidays. The fee per child is £2.80 per hour. Activities on offer vary from arts & crafts, cooking, outings and physical activities.

The team consists of Lesley James (nursery manager) who was the deputy manager of Claire's Country Childcare for 6 years. Natalie Day is a qualified nursery teacher and Nursery Nurses Emma Talbot, Karen Crowshaw, Hannah Sussex and Natalie Head.

The nursery is open from 7.00AM until 6.00PM Monday to Friday.
Natalie does teh curriculum planning for the 3-4 year old children making sure all the learning goals are met on a daily basis. Lesley is responsible for behaviour management and sorts out any behavioural issues and she is also responsible for health and safety. Lesley is the SENCO for the setting.


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