Tiddlywinks Nursery Padworth Reading


With a mission for providing high-quality education and day care for children of ages from 3 months to 5 years, Tiddlywinks Nursery Padworth has been established on the basis of a 150-year-old old Victorian primary school. With ample outdoor space for the children to play and relax, Tiddlywinks is a private nursery that works between 7:30 am and 6:00 pm Monday to Friday for 51 weeks in a calendar year. They provide a highly creative, homely, and fun-filled environment for the children to grow with experienced and caring Nursery practitioners and state-of-the-art nursery equipments.

Working in close partnerships with parents, the highly skilled childminders from Tiddlywinks are devoted to help the children become the best individuals possible by achieving their full potential. It’s really a challenge to take care of the three-month-old children, but the experienced child minders at Tiddlywinks provide the best quality children’s day care. Each child of the age below 1 year is provided with a separate nursery mobile in which he or she can have the freedom to enjoy their independence.

Tiddlywinks boasts of providing the highest standard of care for the children in a well-resourced, warm, diverse, and safe natural environment, typical of a village nursery. The activities for nursery children range from feeding the ducks and chickens to bouncing on the trampoline to using the climbing play equipments and exploring the large outdoors.

The baby units comprise many different areas, such as quiet activity areas, group activity areas, messy and craft activity areas, which help provide the children all their necessary developmental needs. With secluded sleeping area equipped with cots for the children to sleep, this lodge nursery is one of the best to provide residential childcare.

Tiddlywinks, being a starting nursery, functions in collaboration with Tinies Childcare, the biggest chain of childcare and nanny agencies in the UK. With affordable and competitive nursery costs, it believes in providing the highest standard of education and care for the children. The nursery health and safety measure is of utmost importance and is one of the top priorities.

Children of different age groups are put into different categories in this upcoming sunshine day nursery. It has the caterpillar nursery for children of ages 3 months to 2 years, the butterfly nursery for the age group 2 to 3 years, and the ladybird nursery for the 3- to 5-year-old children.

Situated in the picturesque village of Padworth, Reading, Tiddlywinks Nursery is surrounded by ample greenery. With an eco-friendly environment Tiddlywinks presents a truly organic nursery for the children to grow naturally. Helping the children develop confidence while growing in a secure and stimulating environment is a key objective of this flying start nursery. That is why the children at Tiddlywinks are allowed to spend half the day exploring the outside environment. This makes them independent, more confident, healthy, and happy.

Riverside Day Nursery and Nursery Care


Riverside Day Nursery, formed in 2004 March, provides affordable high-quality childcare services in disadvantageous localities. It offers full-day care services for children from the birth to the school going age. This creche nursery tries to meet the needs of lone parents, students or working parents. The nursery management is a committee of parents and volunteers. There are many nurseries available, but not all of them are affordable for everybody. That’s why a few volunteers and parents got together and formed this nursery.

The admission process is quite flexible. Before admission, parents are asked to come for some introductory visits to have a feel of the services they can expect for their children from the nursery. NNEB or NVQ 3 qualified people comprise the senior staff members who also have at least 3 years of childcare working experience. A nursery manager looks after the nursery.

According to a recent Ofsted nursery review report, as an organization this nursery is functioning good or satisfactorily in certain areas like child protection, quality of education, and the nursery environment. The main concern of the nursery is to give maximum focus of the safety and security of the children. The nursery interiors are designed by keeping in mind the requirements for different age-group children. There are enough nursery equipments out there to make the children happy. The nursery training to the children are provided by well-experienced nursery nurses having a minimum of 3 years experience dealing with children of this age.

As the children day care needs have been increasing every day, the nursery business is soaring. A large number of nurseries have been set up recently. Just like any other business, here also there is enough competition in the market. But at Riverside Nursery, quality of service is the major concern. They always prefer to work in small groups. So their daily capacity is only 9 children in the age group 3 months to 1 year, 16 children in 2-3 years age, and 16 children in the 3-5 years age group.

Being situated on the bank of the River Kennet, the nursery is surrounded by lot of greeneries and is amidst a very natural environment. Nursery lighting is good and is composed of mostly natural lights. The children can enjoy enough fresh air in the natural condition of the nursery. Children are mostly kept engaged in various activities depending upon the age. The rooms are well equipped with nursery equipments and walls are decorated with nursery pictures. The children are encouraged to play both indoor and outdoor games and take part in other activities like art & craft, messy play, etc.

Like many other nurseries such as the Buffer Bear Nursery, the French Nursery School, the Little Learners Nursery, and the Little Cherubs Nursery, the Riverside Nursery also provide childcare vouchers or nursery vouchers. Normally free sessions are offered through such child care vouchers and so people get good return for their money.


Established in 1989, the Orchard Day Nursery is situated in the picturesque half-acre gardens in Caversham, Reading. It provides a safe, stimulating and happy environment in which the children feel valued and secure. Children can enjoy a homely atmosphere and freshly cooked healthy and nutritious meals in the nursery. Like many other private nurseries, it also operates all year round from 8 am to 6 pm, providing early years child care from one- to five-year olds. It also provides holiday and afterschool care for five- to seven-year-old children.

Orchard is one of the well-run creches from Reading that help the children become balanced, all-round individuals having a positive outlook, be independent and confident, have a sense of respect for others, the environment, and themselves, develop an enthusiasm for learning and thirst for knowledge, and experience equal opportunities irrespective of ability, race or gender. They have a well-qualified team of childminders and child care practitioners who consistently help the children develop and enhance their skills. In this pre school nursery, emphasis is given on developing a strong and positive bond between the carers and the parents, and a rich stimulating environment is planned and organized for effecting the best early years childcare.

This private day care nursery has a curriculum designed in such a way to develop the young children intellectually, emotionally, physically as well as socially on the basis of what they know already. Among other popular day care nurseries in the UK are the Busy Bees Day Nursery, the Asquith Nurseries, the Buffer Bear Nurseries, and the Poplars Nursery.

The process of setting up a nursery is not so easy and it needs tremendous effort and dedication. There are also networks of child care providers which own a large number of private nursery collections within them. Such child care provider networks and some government agencies offer nursery funding for a new set-up. With the growing number of nurseries in the country, a lot of child care vacancies are being constantly created.

Orchard is registered with nursery Ofsted and is one of the highly regarded and reputed day care nurseries in the UK as per their recent reports. They are governed by certain nursery policies regarding admissions and maintenance of the nursery. They always pay attention towards their infrastructure development and buy nursery equipments whenever necessary. They always encourage the parents to have an introductory visit to know the details about the nursery before taking a decision. They normally allow the parents to have a look at the entire nursery building and the whole campus for the suitability of the child. Every single set-up is different from the rest and has its own character and strength and so it’s very important to choose the one you feel would be right for your child.

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