Lighthouse Nursery is run from a designated nursery room with its own toilet facility within the church building. The nursery has a garden attached which we use whenever possible to play and learn outdoors. We also have use of the main hall on rainy days and an upstairs room for small group activities and organised play.
Nursery sessions run Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 12:00 and from 13:00 to 16:00. We are open for forty-four weeks per year. We close for half terms, a week at Easter and Christmas, three weeks in the summer, and bank holidays.
Provision can be made for your child to start at 8:30 instead of 9:00 at a small extra charge.
We take eighteen children per session aged from two and a half to five years old. We have five experienced members of staff with a variety of professional qualifications, including teaching qualifications and QCF Level 3 in Childcare, Learning and Development. The staff/child ratio is never less than 1:6, and we have regular inspections by the Care Inspectorate for Wales (CIW).
The purpose of the Nursery is:
to serve pre-school children and their parents in the Thornhill area by providing the best environment to develop the whole child.
Based on Christian principles, we value each child as an individual, and each family as special. We aim to care for, nurture and encourage every child to achieve his/her full potential. Our goal is to cultivate happy, confident, self- motivated and enquiring children. The primary language spoken is English with incidental Welsh included.
We aim to offer as broad a curriculum as possible, to contribute to the all-round growth and development of your child. We follow the Foundation Phase, and the areas of learning that are covered within this are:
We offer a ‘walkover service’ to or from the school nursery at Thornhill Primary.
Children are collected from the school at 11.35am, and we walk them to Lighthouse where they can have their packed lunch and then stay with us for the afternoon session, which finishes at 4pm.
Children who are at Thornhill Primary nursery for the afternoon session can come to Lighthouse in the morning from 8.30 or 9am. They stay and eat their packed lunch with us, and we then walk them over to the school for 12.55pm, when their afternoon session starts.
Lighthouse Nursery
Thornhill Church
Excalibur Drive
Thornhill
Cardiff
CF14 9GA
029 20759995
lighthouse.nursery@thornhillchurch.org.uk
We're pleased to say the doors are now open to anyone and everyone on a Sunday!!! If you are not well or have symptons then follow the guidelines to stay home and connect online, but inside there is no social distancing requirement but we are still currently all having to wear masks. We appreciate some people still want some space so we ask people to be aware of that, but our tots, kids and youth provision during the service and refreshments after will all continue when schools start back. We look forward to welcoming the many people from the community who have been connecting online and are continuing to follow guidelines to make things safe, but it is also a place of celebration and joy because of JESUS!
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