Happitots® Nurseries
Providing children with a safe, nurturing, home from home environment where they can learn, play and thrive.
Your Local Happitots Nurseries
Happitots Nurseries are located across Scotland in Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen. At Happitots we pride ourselves in providing excellence in childcare and early education for children aged from birth to 11 years. Our nurseries, creche and Out of School Care centres offer a unique range of services and extra-curricular activities to meet individual needs.
The heart of what we do is providing friendly, safe and supportive environments which put children first every time. Each nursery is unique and we aim to create spaces which feel like a home from home. Children learn and develop well in enabling environments with teaching and support from adults, who respond to their individual interests and needs and help them to build their learning over time.
We promote learning through play, invigorating outdoor environments and using natural resources. We are committed to providing healthy, balanced nutritional meals, supporting children to explore, learn and socialise and delivering every day with passion!
You’ll love Happitots Nurseries
- Independent, teacher-directed, and small, group activities that encourage investigation, exploration, and discovery
- Children learn by playing and exploring, being active and thinking creatively and critically
- Curriculum that supports creative expression, literacy, music, and more
- Confidence-building opportunities to solve problems and make decisions
- STEM learning that encourages future-forward skills
- Safety, security, and robust cleanliness practices
We are Care Inspectorate Registered Nursery
Outdoors and Nature
We love to go outside at all Happitots Nurseries! We provide separate and inviting outside space, all appropriately set up for each age group. All our outdoor areas provide children with opportunities to get fresh air and have fun in a safe and secure environment.
The children love playing in our gardens which provide a variety of activities including den building, mud kitchens, water play, digging and planting, and musical play. As well as access to our fabulous outdoor play areas, children of all ages enjoy regular walks in the local area. Our youngest children are often seen out in our double buggies enjoying the fresh air, sights and sounds of the local community.
We use high-visibility vests to keep children safe when out on trips away from the nursery. We believe there is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing – so we ask parents to provide their children with appropriate clothing for all types of weather.
We are committed to being environmentally friendly, making changes wherever we can in order to make the world a cleaner place. We include teaching our children about their environment and the effect we have on it in our day to day lives.
Education at Happitots Nursery
Our curriculum includes a Realising the Ambition: Being Me framework in conjunction with Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence approach that offers hands-on perspectives to encourage the skills your child will need in the nursery and beyond:
- Mathematics: Integrating numbers into real-life routines
- Schematic Play: Quality learning environment providing the potential for children’s creativity skills and allowing them to follow their own interests confidently
- Listening, Attention and Speaking: Teaching children to express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using complete sentences
- Personal, Social and Emotional Education
- STEM Activities: Building and problem solving using science, technology, engineering, and math
- Ensuring children are physically active from birth and meet the Chief Medical Officers (2019) guidelines of a minimum of 3 hours per day
Our Nursery Fees and Funding
We always offer flexible booking patterns and a range of funding options, including 3-5 years old government’s funded childcare.
Most Enjoyed Activities at Our Nursery
Our nurseries offer a wide range of nursery activities and extras to enrich every child’s experience at nursery and to support busy parents.
Qualified Teachers
Our qualified teachers work closely with our preschool children and their key workers to ensure that children make good progress within all aspects of their development in readiness for school.
Special Festivals
Our nursery encourages children to celebrate festivals throughout the year. This is one of the best ways for children to learn about different religions and cultures by celebrating various world religious festivals, food tasting from different countries and dressing up in the national dress of their friends.
Nursery Library
We believe that reading should be lots of fun, so we run a mini-library service to encourage children to share their favourite stories with their parents, and to help busy parents keep the bookshelf engaging at home! Our nurseries organise regular library visits as part of the learning process.
Fundraising Activities
Taking part in fundraising activities helps children to learn about others that are less fortunate than themselves and to understand how we can help them. Fundraising events are good fun and are a great way to bring children, families and communities together. Some of the fundraisers we have taken part in are: sponsored toddles, superhero days, baking cakes to sell and garden parties.
Graduations
We celebrate the big move to primary school with a special graduation ceremony each year!
Heuristic Play
We encourage Heuristic Play with our 1–2-year-olds, embracing every child’s natural curiosity. Heuristic play involves offering children a range of different objects and receptacles with which they are encouraged to play freely without adult instruction.
Settling-In Sessions
Our nurseries offer free settling-in sessions. Parents can bring their child for a couple of hours first, gradually introducing the child to a new environment. Settling-in sessions are aimed at helping your child to adapt to their new surroundings and become more familiar with the staff and other children.
E-Learning Journals / Parent Zone App
Our E-Learning journals and Parent Zone app allow you to see your child’s activities at nursery with the click of a button. Staff upload images and notes about your child’s participation in activities at nursery for you to access wherever you are. Our nursery tablets offer exciting and stimulating learning experiences tailored to challenge and engage little ones.
Delivery Acceptance
Just another way we aim to make life run a little smoother for our families – many of our nurseries offer delivery acceptance. You can have deliveries/parcels/post sent to your nursery and collect anything when you come to the nursery for pick-up!
The Daily Mile
Daily Mile is physical activity and health and well-being in a social, outdoors context. It is not active play, physical education or outdoor learning, although participating in The Daily Mile can encourage curiosity and interest in outdoor environments in keeping with wider outdoor learning opportunities. The main goal is to increase daily activity.
Baking with Chef
Wherever we can we encourage children to partake in preparing their meals at nursery. We love to see our preschool children take pride in their culinary creations and enjoy healthy and delicious food.
Happitots® Nurseries
Happitots Boddam Nursery
Buchan Station
Boddam
Aberdeenshire
AB42 3AR
Based in Boddam, Peterhead, we provide a caring and family-oriented environment to encourage your child’s development.
Happitots Garrowhill Nursery
61 Maxwell Drive, Garrowhill
Glasgow, G69 6RP
Happitots Nursery Garrowhill is a well-established and trusted nursery situated in a fabulous property with four departments spread over two levels. With a reputation for providing high-quality childcare, our nursery commits to creating a home away from home atmosphere for children and parents to feel comfortable and confident in our setting.
Happitots Glasgow Airport, Paisley Nursery
Building 52
St Andrews Crescent
Glasgow Airport West
PA3 2TQ
Happitots Glasgow Airport Nursery is a well-established and trusted nursery located within the grounds of Glasgow Airport. With a reputation for providing high-quality childcare, our nursery commits to creating a home away from home atmosphere for children and parents to feel comfortable and confident in our setting. We provide childcare for children from 3 months to 5 years of age.
Happitots Inverkip Nursery
4 Kip Park
Main Street
Inverkip
PA16 0FZ
Happitots Inverkip is based in an ideal location for the families of the village, surrounding areas and for those commuting along the A78 main road. Our dedicated team focus on living up to their Grade 5 Care Inspectorate grades by providing the very best for children and caring for their education, health and wellbeing in collaboration with Inverclyde and North Ayrshire Councils and parents.
Happitots Robroyston Nursery
Orion House, Nova Business Park
Robroyston, G33 1AP
Happitots Robroyston Nursery is located in the safe and secure Nova Business Park and provides the ideal setting to provide high-quality early learning and childcare. The setting is encapsulated with natural light and gives toddlers and young children free-flow access to our secure discovery outdoor area.
Happitots South Lanarkshire Nursery
College Way, East Kilbride
Glasgow, G75 0NE
Our Happitots Nursery South Lanarkshire is in a stunning, light and spacious new build. The nursery is linked to South Lanarkshire College campus. The ethos of the nursery reflects that of the college with a passion for learning and education. We provide quality childcare for children aged from 6 weeks to 5 years of age.
Happitots Bishopbriggs Nursery
28 Colston Drive
Bishopbriggs
Glasgow
G64 2AZ
Bishopbriggs is in an ideal location for commuters, with quick links to the motorway system and only 10 minutes walking distance from Bishopbriggs Train Station.
Happitots Erskine Nursery
Erskine Home Estate
Bishopton, PA7 5PU
Happitots Nursery Erskine is perfectly placed in the enchanting grounds of Erskine Hospital Estate, Happitots Erskine first opened its doors in 2006 and has played an important part in the education and care of many of Erskine’s local children and families. We work in partnership with Renfrewshire Council in providing affordable, flexible high-quality early learning and childcare for you and your child.
Happitots Cumbernauld Nursery
9/11 Allander Walk, Town Centre
Cumbernauld, G67 1DW
Happitots Nursery & Crèche is situated in Cumbernauld town centre, on the third floor of the Antonine Shopping Centre, opposite the local library. Our property is designed and finished to an exceptionally high standard creating a warm and homely atmosphere.
Happitots Cove Bay Nursery
Cove Road, Cove Bay
Aberdeen, AB12 3NX
Located in the heart of Cove Bay, Aberdeen, our nursery is housed in a former residential property, with an extension to the rear of the building creating a substantial yet homely nursery setting.
Happitots Baillieston Nursery
145 Swinton Road
Baillieston, Glasgow
G69 6DW
With a reputation for providing high-quality childcare our nursery commits to creating a home away from home atmosphere for children and parents to feel comfortable and confident in our setting.
Our curriculum
We will guide you through every step to get the most out of our nurseries. Join our family across the UK. If you have any questions or enquiries please feel free to contact us on the following details provided below or alternatively you can complete our online enquiry form also located below and we will get back to you as soon as possible…
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