Old Town Nursery Gets a New Garden!

At All About Children, we are very excited to share that a new garden area has been installed at our nursery and pre-school in Beaconsfield.   

Children can experience the garden in all weathers, providing them with opportunities to engage in the natural world. Our new garden area set up will provide the children with the opportunities to see wildlife up close and also get involved with some fun gardening activities. The children will also get the chance to see what they can find inside the ‘bug hotel’, allowing them to discover new creepy crawlies that they may have never come across before.

An Environment to Enrich Physical, Mental and Emotional Growth

The new garden area is the perfect environment to help support the development of our children’s physical, mental and emotional growth. 

Digging, obstacle courses, climbing, running and jumping are just a few of the many opportunities to support the childrens’ physical play. 

The garden also provides the children with lots of inspiration for mark-making and creative play; activities such as leaf and bark rubbing, flower pressing, sticks, rocks and other loose part materials to come up with their own unique creations. The children enjoy mark making activities where they can create marks on a larger scale as it allows them to express themselves; this encourages the children to communicate and develop their language skills through their drawings.

The new garden space will also provide activities for sand and water play. These types of activities generate countless benefits for children in many areas of their physical, mental and emotional growth as it allows the children to explore and experiment. Before you know it, your child will become a sandcastle making expert!

Encouraging Sensory and Exploration Play

The new garden area aims to provide spaces that support sensory and exploration play.  Spaces such as the herb garden, water wall and a potion-making area provide the children with fantastic opportunities to use all of their senses to learn.

We also have an outdoor library where the children can read books in a nice quiet and shaded area. This type of setting allows the children to fully engage with the stories and helps to support the development of the childrens’ literacy and communication skills. 

As well as this, the children will also find a music wall in Old Town day nursery’s new garden area, allowing them to play and experiment with different sounds and rhythms. We also encourage the children to take part in maths activities including den-building and collecting and sorting natural objects; they find these activities really enjoyable and offer an engaging alternative to help develop their maths skills. 

The outdoor space offers a delightful stage to motivate little imaginations through role play. We support this by providing a ‘mud kitchen’, the perfect place for the children to come up with new messy creations, and play zones such as construction areas to help your child replicate real-life situations in their own ways.

To learn more about our new outside garden area, contact our friendly team today.

What Our Parents Say

Very talented and caring staff. My son really loved this nursery. He learnt a lot in all aspects from communication, relationship building, being independent, to learning maths, shapes, letters, word, sentences etc. Really pleased with the development. Thanks to all the lovely staff, you are all the best.

Vaibhav H (Father of Child)

My daughter has been in the nursery since the Baby Room. It has been an incredible journey. Now she is in the pre-school and every day she is excited to go to the nursery. She loves the staff, her key worker, the other kids, the setting (especially the garden). She really enjoys all the activities organised through the week/day. She enjoys and has fun while learning. The staff encourage and support multilingual families making the kids feel proud they can speak more than one language. Now the staff are also getting her ready to go to school this September. The staff have always been amazing, very approachable, flexible and caring.

B C (Father of Child)

The staff are so kind and caring, they all know my daughter even those in different rooms. She skips in to see them every day and they are as excited as me when she does new things. It's a home away from home.

H G (Mother of Child)

I can't thank the staff enough for giving me peace of mind when my child is with them. The number and variety of activities each day is amazing and the fact they manage to get in the garden or go on trips - even in winter is fantastic. My child's development is streets ahead of his peers who don't attend nursery.

S H (Mother of Child)

The nursery has a lovely nurturing and vibrant atmosphere which my son loves. There is plenty of space for him to explore and learn via the vast range of toys and equipment they have. I know he is well cared for. I am always well informed and I work together with the nursery staff to give my son the best possible experience.

Claire F (Mother of Child) 

The care, consideration and attention my son receives is exemplary. Staff pay attention to his strengths and weaknesses and verbalise them to us and ideas for developing them are implemented. All staff demonstrate an excellent attitude and have excellent relationships with their designated children.

A D (Father of Child)

The staff were warm, caring and professional and the facilities are great. We felt like our daughter was part of a big family. We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all working there.

E S (Mother of Child)

I have been impressed by the level of care given to my son since he started. The daily warm welcome of the staff makes both children and parents alike feel at ease. Seeing the smile on my boy's face as we drive into the car park is proof enough for me that the team are doing something right.

Alexander M (Father of Child)

My little girl has recently started and is absolutely loving her time at nursery. The settling in sessions were brilliant and really helped put my mind at ease, especially with me starting back at work. The ladies in the Baby Room are super friendly and enthusiastic and I can't thank them enough for their support in what could have been quite an emotional rollercoaster.

G W (Mother of Child)

Once I drop my son off into the Baby Room, I feel he's as safe and as well looked after as I do at home.

Laura R (Mother of Child)