Midlands Enterprise Awards 2018

24 SME NEWS / Midlands Enterprise Awards 2018 , With a number of sites based across the Midlands, The Nest Nursery supports its children and helps them flourish into healthy and happy individuals. We profile it to find out more and explore how it came to achieve the incredible success it enjoys today. Best Preschool Centre 2018 - Birmingham Founded in 2009, The Nest Nursery is family run and built on strong values. The entire team all work hard to create homely, unique places where all children thrive. Each of the Nest Nurseries are nature nursery with an emphasis on discovery learning and outdoor play. There are forest learning activities and vast gardens so that children can learn and play in a safe and stimulating space. Supporting children aged 0 to five years old, the quality of the learning environment is very important to the team at Nest Nurseries, and natural materials and soft, calming colours are found throughout. Plants, soft lighting and quiet background music all help to create a homely and nurturing atmosphere at each of the locations and offers every child a great space in which to play. As testimony to the level of excellence it provides, The Nest Nurseries are the first accredited Curiosity Approach nurseries in the U.K. Lyndsey Hellyn, Director of The Nest Nursery and Stephanie Bennett from Love 2 Learn, co-founded The Curiosity Approach. Curiosity is an innate drive within young children and through purposeful, thoughtful environments we can inspire children to be inquisitive and creative. Magical wondrous play opportunities that create the “thinkers and doers” of the future. Created through thoughtful learning environments which offer authentic materials and open- ended resources, the approach is innovative, and Nest Nurseries all aim to cultivate an atmosphere where curiosity is prized. Looking ahead, all of the four Nest Nursery locations will continue to offer high-quality childcare that gives them to chance to explore and learn in a safe and stimulating environment. The Nest Nursery MID18030 Company: The Nest Nursery Contact: Lyndsey Hellyn Address: 118 Wood End Road, Birmingham, B24 8BJ, UK Phone: 0121 384 8096 Website: www.thenestnursery.co.uk