Long awaited state-of-the-art nursery opens in Horley to accommodate growing demand for day care
7th October 2019 - Lets Explore Day Nursery, a new state-of-the-art childcare facility, has officially opened in Horley today, offering parents a long-awaited solution to day care requirements within the local area.
With a total capacity of 80 children (at any one time) for those between birth to five years old, the OFSTED-registered facility was opened by the owners of Lets Explore Soft Play after parents expressed their immediate concern for the number of ‘waiting list’ rejection letters from other nursery providers in the region.
Paired with findings from government reports that indicated that one in five children are now starting school overweight or obese, and that only one in ten children aged two to four years old actually meets the UK Chief Medical Officer’s physical activity guidelines of an hour of physical activity a day, the owners have actively applied their expertise in the parenting and child activity sector to their childcare policies. As such, Lets Explore Day Nursery is now the first facility of its kind to intrinsically link soft play plus outdoor physical activity alongside its educational responsibilities.
Ben Stephenson, Co-Founder of Lets Explore and Lets Explore Day Nursery, said:
“After listening to our existing parents’ concerns and pleas for childcare options via our soft play facility, and knowing we already provide children with a challenging and stimulating environment to enable them to learn and develop through play, the opening of a day nursery was a natural progression for us, and I am thrilled that the facility is now ready and open for business.
“Clearly, there’s a direct correlation between a lack of activity and children starting school at an unhealthy weight, so utilising the premium facilities of our Lets Explore soft play on the same site as the nursery, we are aiming to offer the children in our care double the recommended exercise time, and because they have so much fun they don’t realise they are actually exercising. Obviously, all other activities the young people will undertake will be on top of this and we now have an incredible team with over 20 years of experience from other outstanding OFSTED facilities who will be caring for the children every day.”
Becky Homewood, Manager of the Lets Explore Day Nursery, added:
“Attending day care empowers children and helps them learn the skills they need in life from forming friendships and sharing to basic problem-solving. What Lets Explore Day Nursery will offer is a platform to build on these attributes through the government standard early years foundation stage curriculum and play. All of this will take place in a bright, exciting and challenging environment that offers both indoor and outdoor areas.
“It is so important for children to run, swing, climb and jump, as these activities help strengthen muscles which will be needed once at school. If a child hasn’t developed muscles properly it can cause problems with holding and gripping a pen for example. We look forward to being able to serve families of Surrey and Sussex with an outstanding provision that will care for the physical, mental and nutritional needs of all our under-fives.”
For more information about Lets Explore Day Nursery visit www.lets-explore.com/day-nursery.
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