Day Nursery at 46 West Way
Emma’s Day Nursery at 46 West Way, offers learning in the safe and familiar surroundings of a home environment to ensure children are given every opportunity to develop their own self-confidence, social awareness and learning skills.
The Nursery is open all year, except for specified holidays, 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday.
The environment comprises four large colourful rooms downstairs and two baby rooms upstairs.
- The yellow room houses mainly reading, role play and small construction equipment, thus offering a calmer environment.
- The blue room houses our creative and larger construction equipment thus offering a busier environment.
- The green Room is a bright, light conservatory with excellent opportunity for role play and expansive activities.
- The fourth room is dedicated to Art activities.
- Baby sleep room
- Baby play room
Outside, our garden is a secure area with plenty of space for the children to run, explore, choose individual or group play equipment, develop gross motor skills, develop friends and express their own sense of being. We are especially proud of our Pirate ship!
Sample Nursery Timetable
| 8:00 am | Children start arriving. Free play session with a selection of resources and activities for the children to explore freely. Breakfast is served until 8.30 am. |
| 8:55 am | Daily welcome with Literacy focus to include the daily weather chart, a story linked with the current topic, the focus ‘letter’ of the week with show and tell linked with this. |
| 9:15 am | Key Worker Group Time – activities tailored to children and their individual interests. |
| 9:30 am | Outside play session with morning snack – fruit, savoury biscuits with water to drink. A range of activities selected by the staff and children are set up each day covering creative, mark making, sensory, small world, construction, discovery and mathematical themes. |
| 11:00 am | Action games in the garden |
| 11:15 am | Music and movement – Inside Children split into groups for a fun filled movement session with a variety of apparatus. |
| 11:35 am | Mathematics focus session to include numbers and shapes. |
| 11:50 am | Lunchtime – a nutritious cooked main course followed by a dessert. When the children have finished their lunch they can clean their teeth. |
| 12:30 pm | During this time some children require a rest or sleep time with classical music to relax to. The remaining children have a quiet time story session. |
| 12:35 pm | Free play session with a selection of resources and activities for the children to explore freely and creatively. |
| 1:15 pm | Key Worker Group Time – activities tailored to children and their individual interests. |
| 1:30 pm | Outside play session with Afternoon snack – fruit, savoury biscuits with milk or water to drink. A range of activities are set up each day for the children to explore covering creative, mark making, sensory, small world, construction, discovery and mathematical themes. |
| 3:20 pm | Action games in the garden – go inside at 3.30pm |
| 3:35 pm | P.E. – Inside Children split into groups for a fun filled movement session with a variety of apparatus. |
| 3:55 pm | ECAT – Every child a talker – children come together for activities that encourage their speech and language development. |
| 4:10 pm | High Tea – a light savoury snack and dessert. |
| 4:45 pm | Problem solving – children work independently or co-operatively to solve puzzles and problems. This is followed by a free play session until home time. |
| 5:30 pm | Bedtime Yoga. |
| 6:00 pm | End of the nursery day. |
We use fresh produce in our meals wherever possible. At all snack and meal times a drink is offered. Throughout the day, drinking water is freely available for the children.
As the amount of sleep and rest a child needs varies from child to child at this age – whatever their needs we do our utmost to accommodate them.
What OFSTED said
Emma’s Day Nursery at West Way – OFSTED registration – EY537565
We are delighted to confirm that during their visit in August 2024, OFSTED again found Emma’s Day Nursery to be “OUTSTANDING” in all areas.
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The full Ofsted report is available via the OFSTED website at https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/16/EY537565
Please note Emma’s Day Nursery also received an OFSTED grade of Outstanding for the previous three full inspections in 2018, 2015 and 2009. The awards in 2009 and 2015 were made under our previous OFSTED registration Number as a sole trader – EY229999.
Booking a place
If you’re considering booking a place let’s arrange a visit so you can see the nursery, meet the staff and discuss availability etc. To arrange a visit please email, phone or use the form.
Fees, Dates and Opening times
Fees
Please ask us for a copy of our full fees sheet.
Summary fees
£8.10 per hour (8am – 6pm).
Funded hours are available – please ask us for a breakdown of how we manage the Early Education Funding offer.
| Supplementary charges: | |
| Meals – Breakfast, Morning Snack, Lunch, Drinks, Afternoon Snack, Drinks, Tea | Meals are included for fully unfunded places. Funded / Part funded places – £6.00 per day |
| Curriculum + Curriculum + – means the supplementary services we may provide beyond the standard Early Years curriculum. This includes additional external events, such as summer and Christmas parties; additional external enrichment teaching such as Baby Ballet; additional resources such as digital journals, Emma’s Day Nursery branded bags, and various consumables such as wipes. | Curriculum + activities are included for Fully non funded places. For funded / part-funded places, there is a variable charge depending on the number of hours you take up. See full fees sheet for details. |
| Deposit Charges Holding deposit- Note this is non-refundable in the event a place at the Nursery is not taken up once an application has been accepted. | £200.00 – See Terms and conditions for full details. |
| Miscellaneous Charges | |
| Late fees | £50.00 |
| Bank returned payments | £50.00 |
| Late collection of Child | £50.00 |
Dates for Nursery Provision
The Nursery will close for two weeks over the Summer period and over the Christmas Holiday period and for one week over the Easter period. The Nursery also shuts on all UK bank holidays unless confirmed otherwise.
Easter closure 2025
Monday 14th – Monday 21st April 2025
Reopening Tuesday 22nd April 2025
May Bank Holidays 2025
Monday 5th May – Early May Bank Holiday
Monday 26th May – Spring Bank Holiday
August closure 2025
Monday 18th – Friday 29th August
Reopening Monday 1st September
Christmas closure 2025
Wednesday 24th December 2025 – Friday 2nd January 2026 Reopening Monday 5th January 2026
Easter closure 2026
Friday 3rd – Friday 10th April 2026
Reopening Monday 13th April 2026
May Bank Holidays 2026
Monday 4th May – Early May Bank Holiday
Monday 25th May – Spring Bank Holiday
August closure 2026: TBC
Christmas closure 2026
Thursday 24th December 2026 – Friday 1st January 2027 Reopening 4th January 2027
Getting here
The Nursery at 46 West Way – BH9 3EB – on Google Maps.
We understand most people drop children off by car – there is easy access to road-side parking around the Nursery and we encourage parents/ carers to drop children off from Brockenhurst Road, which is a quieter road and has plenty of space to park. The entrance to the Nursery is also on Brockenhurst Road.
Other ways of getting to the Nursery…
Walking – we know how hard it can be to juggle all the things you need to do to get children to Nursery in the mornings. Getting in the car and dropping them there will usually seem the easiest thing to do. But in our annual parental travel survey, 30% of respondents advised they had walked to the Nursery during the year.
About 50% of our children live within one mile of the Nursery and so the opportunity to walk is often available. We all know the health benefits of walking but also time spent with our children, walking, talking and learning on the way to Nursery can be so formative.
There are endless games to play on a walk. We love Pooh Bear’s game of jumping over any lines on the way or the excitement of counting as many red colour cars as you can see! I-spy is a classic, but have you tried the “animal game” – guess the animal in ten questions (you might need twenty!)?
- By Bus – if you live a bit further away, Morebus operate two routes with stops near the Nursery.
- Route 1: M1 – https://www.morebus.co.uk/services/WDBC/m1
- The M1 runs between Poole Bus station and Bournemouth hospital, via Parkstone, Westbourne, Bournemouth Square, Lansdowne, Bournemouth Railway station, Charminster, and Castlepoint. The M1 stop is at the top of West Way, near the grammar schools and requires a 250 metre walk to the Nursery, down West Way. The Nursery is on the right-hand side on the corner of Brockenhurst Road and West Way. It also stops immediately outside the Annunciation Church for the Pre-School.
- Route 2: 20 – https://www.morebus.co.uk/services/WDBC/20 The 20 runs between Poole Bus Station and Castlepoint, via Lilliput, Penn Hill, Westbourne, Bournemouth Square, Meyrick Park, Charminster, Heron Court Road, St Walburga’s School, West Way and Castle Lane. The 20 route stops immediately outside the Nursery at 46 West Way.
Buses are a great time to sit and read with a child or play observation or counting games.
Weblinks
There is an internet-full of information about the benefits of active travel and bus travel. Below are four websites you might find interesting.