Lighthouse Nursery is run from a designated nursery room with its own toilet facility within the Thornhill Church Centre. 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 Centre
Excalibur Drive
Thornhill
Cardiff
CF14 9GA
029 20759995
lighthouse.nursery@thornhillce
LIVE IN THORNHILL/NEARBY AND WANT TO COME TO CHURCH??? As things have moved forward we are now able to offer more seating in our Sunday service along with tots, children and youth provision. It's all under covid guidelines with measures taken to make things as safe as possible. Unfortunately it's a first come, first served basis with the a deadline of getting in touch by Thursdays before, and email confirmation of if you get a space as we do have a limit of people we can seat in the building. We look forward to a time where we can have 200 people in the main hall, but this is the next step whilst we remain to stream our services online for people at home. For more info check out www.thornhillchurch.org.uk/gods-plan-for-your-wellbeing/
God's Plan for Your Wellbeing - Thornhill Church
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