Quality Childcare & Education Gloucester

Barnwood Nursery

We provide high quality care and education that parents trust and children enjoy.

A leading day nursery in Gloucester for babies and children between the ages of 3 months and 5 years

Our Barnwood Nursery operates from a spacious, homely, detached property, set in large, secure grounds, conveniently located on one of the main routes leading into Gloucester city centre.

A safe, happy and comfortable environment for your children

The nursery offers lots of indoor and outdoor space for the children’s activities, including dedicated wet/messy play and eating areas, designated base rooms for each age group, and a large, enclosed garden with challenging play equipment and many exploration areas, including a mud kitchen!

The base rooms are organised to enable even the very youngest children to choose their activities and help themselves to the resources they need, allowing them to develop a level of independence under careful supervision.

Babies have their own peaceful sleep room and bright, cheerful dining, play and changing areas.

Our Base Rooms

Snowdrop

Young children are confident and enjoy being able to move around the room freely, which helps their early walking skills.

Bluebell

Staff provide a good range of activities to help children develop early literacy skills such as sand for making marks, paints, books and pens and paper.

Sunflower

The children are motivated and eager to learn.

Pre-school

Children gain the skills they need for future learning and their future move to school.

Our programme of activities includes

To consistently offer a service which parents feel confident to trust to provide everything their child needs when they cannot be there to do so themselves. To keep us focused on achieving this mission every day, we have three core values which underpin everything we do:

Rugby

Weekly rugby sessions led by qualified external teachers are part of our schedule.

Local Gloucester Trips

Local outings to places like the library, supermarket, or park enrich learning themes.

Birthday Celebrations

Every child’s birthday is celebrated with joy, featuring a cake and personalized card.

Community Involvement

Community links include visits from fire brigade, police, and local retirement home events.

Festival Celebrations

Cultural festivals are celebrated to introduce children to diverse foods, music, and languages.

What else do we do for the children in our care?

Breakfast, lunch and tea enjoyed as social occasions, with the children seated in groups around small tables in the dining areas.
Morning and afternoon snacks and drinks: these are made available for the children to help themselves when they are ready.
Encouraging the children to clean their teeth after meals.
Establishing regular toileting routines that encourage early independence.

Food & Drink

We are passionate about the importance of establishing healthy eating patterns early in children’s lives and design our menus to offer a varied, tasty and nutritionally balanced diet.

Our aims are to help the children to learn about the food they eat, encourage them to try a wide variety of tastes and textures and to enjoy the social aspects of mealtimes with their friends.

Our nursery menu now rotates fortnightly and is reviewed seasonally. Click here to see our menu.

Our nursery chefs prepare all meals and snacks daily in the Barnwood Nursery kitchen, using fresh ingredients. We cater for all allergies, intolerances, cultural requirements and any additional food preferences, and our chefs are happy to meet with parents to discuss individual needs.

Importantly, the Food Standards Agency has inspected our catering facilities and procedures, and awarded our Barnwood Nursery a 5-star ‘Very Good’ rating.

Nursery mealtimes are:

Breakfast: 8.00am – 8.30am

Lunch: 11.45am – 12.45pm

Tea: 3.45pm – 4.15pm

In addition, a morning and afternoon snack and drink are offered to the children, and water is available at all times for them to help themselves whenever they want it.

Weaning

We ask parents to provide formula or breast milk in clearly labelled bottles for those children who need it, until they are able to drink cow’s milk.

Your child’s key person will be happy to advise on and fully support you in weaning your child, and we will provide home-cooked, pureed and mashed foods until his or her digestive system can manage the full range of foods on our menu.

Nursery Pricing

Please contact us for a quotation, individually tailored to your specific needs.

However, to give you an idea of the sort of pricing we typically charge, the fully inclusive cost of a full time (8am-6pm) place at our Barnwood Nursery is currently £1583.33 per month. Additional hours are available and charged per half hour.