Welcome to Shooting Stars Nurseries

Shooting Stars provides the ultimate care and education for your child. At our nurseries, your child will receive a rich, stimulating nursery experience which will be a positive influence on their learning and development. We specialise in the care of babies and toddlers and pride ourselves on providing the highest quality of childcare.

All of our settings are spacious and have great locations with secure outside play areas equipped with an extensive range of high quality toys for all ages.

At Shooting Stars we have the highest security with a state of the art finger print entry systems and CCTV in all rooms including a 'Parentcam' CCTV system giving you secure on-line visibility of your child at any time for total peace of mind.

Our Services

We are passionate about healthy eating, knowing how this can influence a child's future eating patterns and educational achievement. We select the highest quality ingredients, using home grown, local and organic produce, whenever possible. Our children's menu is meticulously planned, to include fish, meat and vegetarian options. Low in salt and sugar with lots of fibre! Afternoon teas are accompanied by a wide variety of fruits and provide the children with their 5-A-DAY! We specialise in meals for our babies and toddlers on weaning programmes, preparing a wide variety of vegetable combinations and bake.

Pre School

In the PreSchool, our older children (up to 5 years) are taught, cared for and supervised by a team of fully qualified and experienced nursery trained staff.

We use the seven areas of learning from the Early Years Foundation Stage Guidance to plan for each child and promote development on an individual basis.

We combine this with lots of fun and games to promote play with other children and social development.

All areas of learning are equally important and underpinned by their Key Person.

For children aged 3+ years we provide a staff ratio of 1:8.

Baby Unit

Our youngest members, aged up to about 2 years, occupy beautiful spacious, fully equipped playrooms with dedicated areas for changing.

We are very proud of our Nursery Departments where our babies are cared for by a long-standing team of highly qualified and experienced Nursery Nurses. Our staff are 'hand picked' for their abilities and expertise with young babies.

We are very particular about standards of hygiene and in the Nursery extra care and attention is taken. For example, all toys and equipment used are sterilized daily, especially those toys put into mouths.

Dishwashers and cold water sterilisers also are used to ensure sterilisation of all cups, dishes and cutlery.

For babies being weaned their first foods are introduced in close consultation with parents. We are then able to offer a wide variety of nutritious home made baby foods specially prepared from fresh vegetables and fruit, with the gradual introduction of fish and chicken, and eventually meats (again in close liaison with parents).

Every effort is made in the communication between staff and parents to ensure complete confidence is maintained. Diaries are kept carefully in order that concise information about food intake, sleep times, and any other happenings can be given to parents on a daily basis.

The developmental activities for children in the Nursery department are planned on a weekly basis using the Early Years Foundation Stage Guidance as set out by the Department for Education, by staff who have been trained in child development.

For children aged 0 to 2 years we provide a staff-to-child ratio of 1:3. As the toddlers in the Nursery become more and more confident on their feet and progress towards more social and gregarious play, we gradually introduce them to the next stages of development into toddlers.