Your Local Nursery in Wistaston
Corner House Nurseries Wistaston has been a well-established and trusted nursery located in-between Nantwich and Crewe in a rural farm area close to Willaston.
With a reputation for providing high-quality childcare we feel when visiting you can feel our nursery exudes our ethos and focus on children first. We pride ourselves on creating a secure, warm, home away from home atmosphere for children and parents to feel comfortable and confident in our setting.
We provide childcare for children from birth to 5 years old. With our lovingly restored and re-designed interior providing bright, airy spaces for play and learning as well as our fantastic outdoor space for all ages, we can offer families a secure and stimulating setting where children can thrive. We are open throughout the year for 51 weeks from 7.30am to 6pm for morning, afternoon and full day sessions as well as working in partnership with Cheshire East Council to provide funding to eligible families. We also have our own car park for drop-offs and pick-ups for convenience.
Our unique features
Partnerships with Families and the Community
Extensive outdoor area to explore
Walking distance from houses in Wistaston and Willaston
Well established dedicated team
Times
- Monday 7:30 – 18:00
- Tuesday 7:30 – 18:00
- Wednesday 7:30 – 18:00
- Thursday 7:30 – 18:00
- Friday 7:30 – 18:00
- Saturday Closed
- Sunday Closed
Meet Our Top Team
Alison Fisher
Nursery Manager
Faith Sadler
Deputy Manager
Leanne Foley
Deputy ManagerGet in touch
We can guide you through every step of your childcare journey and help you discover everything you need to know about our nursery.
Parent Reviews
R, Current Parent
Speaking from my son’s experience he absolutely loves The Nursery (Wistaston). He speaks very highly of all the staff and will eat all kinds of foods that he won’t touch at home. Since moving from another nursery in November he’s come on leaps and bounds socially. He’s happy to go in a morning, in fact some weekend he’d rather be at nursery
Vicky, Current Parent
I’m really impressed at how the indoor setting has been refurbished and updated with some fantastic resources. I’m so pleased that they have recently announced they will be doing forest school as that’s such an exciting activity for the children. Our child also has an egg and dairy allergy and the nursery has been fantastic at offering him alternatives.
Outdoors and Nature
We love to get outside at Corner House Wistaston! We offer forest school and playmakers, which is sports lessons, for toddlers to preschool at an additional charge but free for children that are full time with us.
As well as access to our 4 large fabulous outdoor play areas, children of all ages enjoy regular walks in the local area. We take children out in groups, come rain or shine, to take part in a variety of activities set up by our staff. Wherever possible we try to take our indoor learning outside. We have a designated all weather area for the baby room children to explore and a soft play surface area for all of our children to use.
During our time outside we teach children how to assess risk, problem solve, share, gather and utilise from nature as we are committed to teach our children about their environment and the effect we have on it in our day to day lives. We are very fortunate to have our little allotment beds for planting and growing our own vegetables and a mud kitchen for exploratory role play while making changes wherever we can to make the world a cleaner place too!
Our youngest children are often seen out in our 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 have a playground, bike track, large natural garden area and separate baby garden that is no mowed. All children leave wellington boots and waterproof clothing at nursery so they can be appropriately dressed for all seasons!
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Education at Corner House Wistaston
Our curriculum includes a Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage that offer hands-on approaches 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
- Birth to 5 Matters Learning and Development Framework
- 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 Find Out More
Our Nursery Fees and Funding
We always offer flexible booking patterns and a range of funding options, including 2-5 years old government’s funded childcare.
To find out more information on pricing and availability, please request a call back and we will be in touch shortly.
Our fees include:
- Quality Early Years Care and Education
- Healthy, well-balanced menu for all children
- Access to a wide range of quality resources and equipment
- E-Learning Journals via Tapestry
- Monthly newsletters and parent evenings
- Free settling-in sessions
- Nappies, wipes and formula (for babies under 1) included
- Sibling and NHS discount
- Discount for Full time places
Popular Activities!
Forest School
Forest School is an inspirational process that offers our children opportunities to develop their self-confidence through hands on learning experiences in our woodland gardens and outdoor classrooms.
Playmakers / Sports Activities
Playmakers is to help children get involved and active in group and singular physical activity or community play. By incorporating teamwork, developing skills, having fun and also bonding, we can have the most amount of fun while we get in our daily exercise and socialising too!
Rhythm Time
Our Rhythm time classes are fantastic at development within children! These classes open up a platform for language development, balance skills, muscle development, promoting hand/eye coordination and developing speech by singing and dancing. It also promotes bonding and creating social skills by being involved!
E-Learning Journals – Tapestry
Our E-Learning Journals via the Tapestry app allow you to see your child’s activities at nursery with the click of a button. Your little one’s Keyworker will upload images and notes about your child’s development, any useful updates from their day and 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.
Fundraising activities
Taking part in fundraising activities helps children to learn about others that live differently, or are in disadvantaged situations and understand how we can help them. Some of the fundraisers we have taken part in are: Children In Need, sponsored toddles, Macmillan coffee morning, superhero days and garden parties.
Settling in sessions
Our nurseries offer free 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 and become more familiar with the staff and children, but also help you adapt to their surroundings and feel safe and secure when your little one joins us.
Physical Development and Education
As part of our curriculum we are committed to ensuring children are physically active for a minimum of 3 hours per day. Physical Development Champions at each nursery create and design specific activities based around movement, raising the heartbeat and exercising the cardiovascular system.
Excellent Resources
Our nurseries provide an extensive range of resources to encourage children to learn through play. We favour naturalistic learning resources and make fantastic use of our outdoor equipment, promoting free-flow and Child-led learning.
Food and Nutrition
Here at Corner House Wistaston, our menus are designed to give your little one the very best start in life.
We make this possible by supplying our children with home cooked nutritional food, bursting with fresh fruit and vegetables and all the essential ingredients necessary for healthy physical and mental development.
Whenever possible we source our food locally and organically, including seasonal vegetables and fruit into our menus. Our children have a choice of milk or water to drink throughout the day.
Growing Our Own Vegetables!
Our children have opportunities to excel as nursery gardeners to grow fruit and veg in our own allotment beds, providing fresh produce for our nursery.
Vegetarian and Vegan
We are happy to cater for all preferences including Vegetarian and Vegan.
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