Open : 0800 to 1800

The Early Years Nursery Academy, located in Plaistow Park, is our flagship day nursery in East London. In addition to the three nursery rooms located on the ground floor for Babies, Explorers & Toddlers, and Pre-School, the upper floor provides office accommodation for our Area Management Partners and the training room in which, from 2009 to 2010, we developed and piloted our ground-breaking Academy Management Education Programme.

The extensive 'Outside Area' contains a variety of constructions specially designed to deliver different aspects of the curriculum from climbing and exploring to a 'Greek amphitheatre', a growing area for flowers and vegetables, and a 'bug's life' observation unit. The extensive astro-turfed covered area is furnished with tables and chairs, enabling most, if not all, elements of the curriculum to be delivered with a continuous flow between 'outside' and 'inside'. Not surprisingly, the children prefer to spend most of their day outside rather than inside.

Meals and snacks are prepared and frozen off-site by Nourish, working to menu guidelines prescribed by a consultant nutritionist and dietitian with a Masters degree in Nutrition and Dietetics. Meals are then defrosted and prepared to strict guidelines by staff on-site. Our success in weaning babies onto healthy eating has led to parent demand for Nourish's nutritious frozen meals to be made available for them to take home when they collect their child and this facility is now available.