Elm Cottage

Our nurseries were founded in the belief that young children fair best in a ‘home from home’ environment where they feel loved, safe and emotionally secure. As well as focusing on comfort and emotional security, we have always believed that children deserve to live in a richly stimulating environment. Children grow and develop at an incredible rate during their first few years of life. The brain, in particular, is growing in maturity. It is laying down vast numbers of new contacts between brain cells, forming the potential for many new pathways, through which, information can be passed and stored. In order to maintain these pathways they need to be used, therefore they need to be stimulated. Just as the body requires food to grow, the brain, and therefore the young child requires stimulation, varied experiences and information, to reach their full potential. We consider that it is our responsibility to ensure that all children attending our nurseries from babies upwards are therefore provided with love, affection and intellectual stimulation at all times.