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LITTLE BUDDIES CHILDCARE

About Us

Introduction to Little Buddies

Little Buddies is an independent Ofsted registered nursery located in the centre of Guisborough, with easy access for all transport links.

Little Buddies @ Bow Street was originally known as Bow Street Nursery which closed its doors in January 2019. Little Buddies is a new nursery registration with Ofsted from June 2019. The nursery has recently had a major extension and refurbishment and now comprises of dedicated baby rooms and rooms for over 2’s. Each room is furnished to a high standard and equipped with quality furniture, resources and equipment. Each room has been planned with careful consideration to ensure that we provide a safe, fun, stimulating and tranquil environment.

The Owner

Amanda Panayi is the owner of Little Buddies Childcare Ltd. Amanda is an Ofsted registered childminder from Middlesbrough who has dedicated the last 8 years of her life working in early years.

Location

Little Buddies @ Bow Street operates from 24 Bow Street, Guisborough TS14 6BP

Ages of Children

Little Buddies provides childcare and early education for children from 6 weeks old. We provide high quality care and learning for all children within our care.

Opening Hours

Little Buddies opens from 7:00am until 6.00pm and covers all local primary schools providing a wrap around service. As well as opening term time, we also open within the school holidays (50 weeks per year, usually close two weeks at Christmas).

The Little Buddies Staff Team

Little Buddies team members are chosen for their experience working with children, qualifications, training and continued desire to want to work with children.

Amanda Panayi
Owner & Deputy Manager
Carla McClelland
Nursery Manager & Early Years Practitioner Level 3
Hannah Ward
Baby Room Leader Level 6
Emma McClelland
Over 2's Room – Level 2 Apprentice
Amanda Long
Level 3 Apprentice
Ruby Heeley
Level 3 Apprentice
Lauren Shaw
Level 3

Why Choose us?

Opening times

If our advertised opening times don’t work for you, contact the management team as we may be able to accommodate earlier or later opening hours to suit your childcare needs.

Holiday Club

We open Monday to Friday in school holidays whether we have one child booked in or twenty children booked in. We will not close our holiday provision leaving you unable to access childcare just because we are quieter on some days. (Except public bank holidays and Christmas period)

Age Ranges

We are the only nursery in the area to provide childcare to all age ranges. Giving you peace of mind you are able to keep your children together throughout their childhood years.

What schools do we cover

All of them, whether it be for school nursery wrap around or before and after school club.

Staff Tea

We use regular staff in all rooms providing continuous provision and support to you and your child. We reward our staff for their hard work and dedication to the setting by giving them incentive rewards on a monthly basis. This helps keep morale to a high and ensures they know we appreciate them.

Staff Suitability

Not only do we DBS check staff we continuously check their DBS’s as part of our ‘Suitable People Policy’. We provide training for our staff more frequent than necessary. More importantly we complete Paediatric first aid yearly instead of every three years as per statutory requirements.

Our Environment

We are always looking to improve our environment for your little ones, by ensuring this is decorated to a high clean standard, it is safe and provides a calm, happy and stimulating place to be.

Resources & Equipment

We provide resources and equipment that are designed for schools and nurseries. Not only are they manufactured to a high commercial standard they are developed to ensure children not only learn but have fun at the same time. They are designed to ensure children have a reason to love learning!

Activities

We do not just cover topics as part of our curriculum. We provide daily activities for all children to enable them to have fun and give them the opportunity to learn.

Community Partnerships

We always strive to work with local charities and partners. We have formed a working partnership with ‘World of Imagination’ the local role play centre/cafe and are now due to start our very own mother and toddler group at the local church hall.

Health & Safety

We ensure our building is safe for children, staff and visitors. We work with a health and safety company to ensure we are compliant not only in the workplace but as a ‘Children’s Nursery’.

Food Hygiene

We have recently been awarded for the second time in three years a five star food safety rating!

How we communicate with you

Not only do we use Babys’ Days to communicate with you and share your child’s learning and photo’s, we have a closed group on facebook in which we share lots of exciting news and your child’s day with us.

What Happens at Little Buddies?

We are committed to providing a stimulating, fun, yet caring environment for your child. We offer something for all children based around their individual needs, interests and abilities. We have weekly sing and sign sessions, Moo Music, outings to local amenities, libraries, parks, museums, nursing homes for the elderly and often participate in fund raisers for charities. We plan something for all our children and help them to achieve to the best of their ability within their development and contribute to their school readiness.

Please see our policies and procedures and facebook for more information.

HAPPY PARENTS

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