Servicing Glasgow East council nursery needs
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 6 weeks to 5 years of age.
Our nursery is housed in a stunning, detached, stone villa with a separate, purpose-built unit for our babies. We are conveniently located near the motorway network and many public transport services are available near us, making us the perfect option for commuters. We are open throughout the year from 8am– 6pm and offer full-time and part-time sessions. We also work in partnership with Glasgow City Council to provide 3–5-year-old partial funding for eligible families.
Our Unique Features
3–5-year-old funding
Discounts available inc. Emergency Services
Experienced, long-standing team
On-site chef and home-cooked meals and snacks
Times
- Monday 8:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday 8:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday 8:00 – 18:00
- Thursday 8:00 – 18:00
- Friday 8:00 – 18:00
- Saturday Closed
- Sunday Closed
Meet Our Top Team
Wilma McFarlane
Nursery Manager
Natalie Reed
Deputy Manager
Lynne Gollogly
Room SeniorOur Brochure
We will guide you through every step of your childcare journey and help you discover everything you need to know about our nursery. Come and join our family across the UK. If you have any questions or enquiries, please feel free to contact us using the contact details at the foot of this page. Alternatively, you can complete our online enquiry form also located below and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Parent Reviews
Susan, S.
Our son has attended Baillieston on a full-time basis for 9 months, and is now starting school. The care and education he has received has been exceptional – the staff are fabulous. Our son loved the Spanish and swimming lessons once a week, all included in the fees. Overall, this nursery is outstanding for their reliability, communication, and professionalism.
P, H
My experience with Happitots Baillieston has been incredible – from the manager, to the staff I had the pleasure of coming across. Happitots Baillieston has always had a friendly and polite atmosphere that’s welcoming to families. It has been a joy to see my daughter so happy.
Kerry, F.
My son has attended Happitots every day for four years. He has loved learning to swim, and the dance classes in particular. My daughter has now been attending for two years and is enjoying it just as much. She is also learning to swim and speak Spanish. The staff go above and beyond, and I’m always happy to leave my children in their care.
Outdoors and Nature
We love to get outside at Happitots Baillieston! Each of our 4 rooms has its own separate inviting outside space, all appropriately set up for their age groups. All of 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 offer a variety of activities including mud kitchens, water play, outdoor classrooms and many more resources to promote safe and fun outdoor 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 an environmentally friendly nursery, making changes wherever we can in order to make the world a cleaner place! We are a registered ECO-Nursery and are committed to teach our children about their environment and the effect we have on it in our day to day lives.
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Education at Happitots Baillieston
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. 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 and Interactive App
- Monthly newsletters and parent evenings
- Free Settling in Sessions
- Nappies, wipes & a variety of milk
- Emergency Services discount (Inc. NHS)
- Sibling discount
*Terms and conditions apply to our funding options and discounts. Contact us for more information.
Fees and Funding
Popular Activities!
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.
Every Child a Talker
Thrive Childcare and Education understands the importance of promoting language and communication. Through our Every Child’s A Talker (ETAC) language programme, we seek to identify speech and language difficulties with an aim to providing detailed, age-appropriate language sessions in each of our nursery rooms. Babies and Toddlers have lots of fun at our Sing and Sign.
Excellent Resources
Our nurseries provide an extensive range of resources to encourage children to learn through play. We favour naturalistic learning resources [give examples] and make fantastic use of our outdoor equipment, promoting free-flow and child-led learning.
Eco Schools
Eco Schools is the largest sustainable schools programme in the world and is designed to encourage action on sustainable development issues. Our children love getting involved in their Eco Schools projects and learning about how to help protect the environment. https://www.eco-schools.org.uk/
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 – caps, gowns, the works!
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.
Planting and Growing
We make use of our wonderful outdoor spaces and forest areas by encouraging children at our nurseries and Out of School Care clubs to plant, grow and tend to fruit, vegetables, flowers and herbs throughout the year.
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 children take pride in their culinary creations and enjoy healthy and delicious food.
Food / Nutrition
Here at Happitots Baillieston, we have our very own qualified Nursery Chef who creates nutritionally balanced 3 week rolling menus.
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 with their very own vegetable patch!
Cooking & Baking Activities
Our children have opportunities to work with our Nursery Chef through weekly cooking and baking activities.
Vegetarian & Vegan
We are happy to cater for all preferences including Vegeterian and Vegan.
Dairy Free Milk
We offer a variety of milk including animal and plant based milks. Speak to our Nursery Chef regarding your preference.
Dietary Requirements
We are happy to cater for a whole range of dietary/religious/cultural requirements. Please speak to our Nursery Chef for more information.
No added Sugar / Salt
We do not add additional salt or sugar. Where possible we purchase products with reduced salt and lower sugar.
Allergies & First Aid
Our staff are trained in First Aid and our Nursery Chef is experienced in catering for allergies. You are more than welcome to meet with our Chef to discuss your requirements.
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