Each area within the nursery has a curriculum to follow, which includes personal and social development, language and literacy, mathematics, physical and creative development.

We have five rooms for five different age groups. The caterpillar room is for children 0-12 months. It’s full of conventional toys and holistic activities such as treasure baskets, bubbles, music and water play to encourage the babies to explore and enjoy their surroundings indoors and outdoors.

Our ladybird room is for children aged 12-18 months. There they’re encouraged to become more mobile through soft play, push along toys and more.

The children in the butterfly room (aged 18 months – 2½ years) are encouraged to communicate, play together and to find their voice together with shared activities such as baking and sand play.

In the bumblebee room, children aged 2½ – 3 years are given a wide range of learning opportunities through sand, malleable play, books, block play, exploratory play, role play and movement.

The children in the grasshopper room (3-5 years) follow Foundation Learning, which allows your children to be creative, imaginative and to have fun whilst learning. This gives children skills to build on and develop ready for school.

Our opening hours are:

Monday – 8.00am – 5.45pm
Tuesday – 8.00am – 5.45pm
Wednesday – 8.00am – 5.45pm
Thursday – 8.00am – 5.45pm
Friday – 8.00am – 5.45pm

Toybox Nursery is open throughout the year except for Bank Holidays and one week at Christmas. Please note that if the nursery is open on Christmas Eve, the closing time will be 1.00pm.

We’re based at Coleg Cambria’s Deeside site. If you need to contact us please call 01978 267 159 or email us at toybox@cambria.ac.uk