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Newark & Sherwood Nursery

Explore our Nursery rooms tailored to nurture each stage of your child’s development, from dedicated baby spaces and sensory rooms to engaging toddler and pre-school areas.

Each room is a unique environment that supports creativity, learning, and comfort, ensuring every child feels at home while they grow and thrive.

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Our Rooms

Explore our tailored rooms designed to nurture each stage of your child’s development, from our dedicated baby space and sensory rooms, to engaging toddler and pre-school areas.

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Babies

Our two baby rooms are split between ‘mobile’ and ‘non-mobile’ babies, and have been developed to keep our youngest nursery-goers feeling relaxed and comfortable in their surroundings.

  • Heated floor
  • Dedicated baby outside space
  • Key Worker that follows your baby’s routine
  • Unique experiences to support child development

We ask that parents provide nappies, milk and spare clothing.

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Toddlers

Our toddler spaces have been designed to nurture creativity and child-led play, wherever their imagination takes them.

  • Open-ended activities
  • Creative toys and craft materials
  • Large, secure outside play area for free flow indoor, outdoor play
  • Key Workers support and facilitate your child’s interests

We ask that parents provide nappies.

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Pre-School

As children join our pre-school room, they’ll access even more incredible books, open-ended resources and materials for creative, imagination-led play.

  • Large range of toys and activities so children can choose
  • Child led learning and in the moment planning
  • Large, secure outside play area for free flow indoor, outdoor play
  • Key Workers supporting school-readiness for their next big adventure
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Sensory Room

Our Sensory Room is a space accessible to all our children throughout their time at nursery.

Designed to promote sensory exploration, the space helps children settle and relax, whilst providing textures, lights and sounds that support the development of audio, visual and fine motor skills.

You can explore all of our nursery rooms at one of our upcoming open days. Get in touch using our online enquiry form.

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FAQs

  • What is a Sensory Room?

    Our Sensory Room supports sensory exploration with various textures, lights, and sounds, enhancing children’s overall development.

  • What do your toddler rooms have for creativity and play?

    Our toddler areas feature open-ended activities, creative toys, and a secure outdoor play area, fostering imaginative play and exploration.

  • What are the age groups catered to at the YMCA Nursery?

    The YMCA Nursery caters to three age groups: Discoverers (babies from three to 12 months), Explorers (toddlers from 12 to 24 months), and Adventurers (pre-school children from 2½ to 5 years).

  • What are the operating hours and pricing options for the YMCA Nursery?

    The YMCA Nursery is open for children aged 3 months to 5 years old from 7:30am-6pm every weekday. Pricing options are flexible, with full day care from 7:30am-6pm starting at £50 per day and 9am-3pm starting at £44 per day. Funded places are available for children from the term after their 3rd birthday.

  • What is the Care to Learn scheme at the YMCA Nursery?

    Care to Learn is a government scheme that helps parents under 20 pay for childcare while they are in publicly funded education courses in England. It can help with the cost of childcare, including deposit and registration fees, a childcare taster session for up to 5 days, and keeping the childcare place over the summer holidays.