Our focus with our pre-school children is providing a range of engaging play activities, alongside developing children’s readiness for school. The educators working with our pre-school children are skilled in incorporating literacy and numeracy into everyday activities.
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Life as a 2 year old is full of new challenges
Half Moon Room
Half Moon Room
2-3 years
Within our Half Moon Room our trained educators understand that different children require varied activities that will enhance their skills as they grow and become more active. Our educators understand that whether children are starting nursery for the first time as a two year old or transitioning from our baby room, they need time to settle and get to know their environment.
Life as a two year old is full of new challenges and these need to be fun and engaging that sparks their interest and inquisitive nature. Your child’s language skills will be beginning to flourish and, language and communication development is supported through interaction with attentive educators who help children to begin to understand the world through a range of stimulating learning experiences.
Encouraging independence
Planned routines.
Our two year olds absolutely love testing the boundaries and, our carefully planned routines support them to predict what happens during the nursery day. This enables them to understand our educators’ expectations of them. We absolutely love getting to know our two year olds as they continue to develop their personalities. Each one is unique and the educators know exactly how to support each one individually, to ensure they are getting the absolute most out of the nursery environment.
We have high expectations for all our children; our two year olds are encouraged to develop their independence and to take responsibility for developing friendships and being kind and considerate to their peers with the support of the educators.
Share the experiences
Your child’s key person.
You will continue to receive the same feedback from your child’s key person and you will be able to share the experiences they have had at home, and we can adapt and change any routines or special interests your child has developed, ensuring these are fully incorporated into your child’s nursery day.
If you would like to talk to us about your child and the possibility of a place in the Half Moon Room then please get in touch.
Shared Expectations
Our Environment.
Our nurseries are calm and nurturing and our educators genuinely love and know each little personality, understanding the unique little quirks that make each one super special. This is so important to ensure that children feel safe, secure and happy. When children are settled and happy they absolutely thrive within our environment.
Our management team and educators have extremely high expectations of our children in terms of their behaviour, learning to respect and tolerate one another, learning to be kind and considerate and learning to live and play alongside one another happily. We also have extremely high expectations of what our children can achieve by providing them with meaningful narratives to their play, teaching them new vocabulary and providing varied experiences through trips out of nursery or special visitors coming to nursery in order to support our children to learn understand new information.
Family Feeling
Home from home.
Our aim throughout the development of the nurseries has always been to maintain the home like family feeling.
Our nursery’s ethos is to provide a warm loving, homely environment, and you will get this feeling when you visit either New Moon Nursery in Castleford or Warmfield.
We operate our nurseries like a family. Our educators know and understand one another well and they know each one of our children inside and out. All our children from our babies to our oldest children see each other regularly and are supported to develop an understanding and respect for one another’s similarities and differences.
New Moon Nurseries
What's Next?
The next step for babies moving from our New Moon Room is progressing to the Half Moon Room, a dedicated space for 2-3 year olds to flourish under the guidance of our educators.
Full Moon
Amazing nursery with lovely kind staff who go above and beyond for the children in their care. My child is always happy to go and had made strong attachments to several members of staff. It's clear from her interactions with staff that they all put in the effort, despite the room they're based in, to get to know all the children.
Welcome to New Moon Nurseries
Our Locations
Our nursery’s ethos is to provide a warm loving, homely environment, and you will get this feeling when you visit
New Moon Nursery in Castleford or Warmfield.
Castleford
We chose our 1st location for a nursery, in a beautiful detached Victorian house based in Castleford.
25 Barnes Road
Castleford
West Yorkshire
WF10 5AB
Wakefield
Our 2nd location for a nursery is a beautiful farmhouse based in Warmfield, not far from Wakefield centre.
Low Farm
Warmfield Lane
Wakefield
WF1 5TN
