Newton House
At Evolution Childcare in Newton‑le‑Willows, we provide beautifully designed rooms filled with high‑quality resources and engaging facilities that spark curiosity and support every stage of your child’s development. Each area is thoughtfully crafted to encourage exploration, creativity, and confidence, all within a safe, nurturing environment where children can learn, grow, and thrive.
Our baby room caters from 6 weeks to 12 months. The staff to child ratio is a 1:3 and we provide visually stimulating room environments for your child to explore. Within each room the staff complete an in-depth settling in process where your child will be assigned their own Key Worker who will discuss your child’s needs and there development so far.
Our baby room development strategies concentrate on learning through play, using messy activities such as jelly, custard & beans through to ribbons, scarves & feathers. Staff plan appropriate activities for this age range and work with the Early Years Foundation stage profile on a daily basis as they are encouraged to begin verbal and non-verbal communication with both their peers and carers focusing on repetition and imitation. Within the baby room we help to enhance your child’s physical development through the use of physical development sheets which are planned monthly according to the child’s age.
Babies are given a nutritious balanced diet which is all cooked daily on site by our nursery chef. Younger babies are catered for as they are given puréed fruit/veg before they are introduced to meats and other food substances.
From approximately 12 months old your child will be ready to transition into the Toddler Room. The ratio within this room remains at 1:3 and the children usually stay within this room until their second birthday. Our Toddler Room staff work closely with both the Baby Room and Early Learner Room to ensure that transitions into their room and into the next room are smooth, ensuring routines are passed on and parents are consulted on room movement dates and children’s settling in times, also giving the child’s new key worker the opportunity to bond with your child.
The Toddler room offers a variety of different levels in order to explore, unlike the baby room which provides mainly floor based activities. This allows the Toddlers to investigate their physical development and extend their curiosities in a variety of areas. A role play area is introduced within the Toddler Room to allow the children to start developing their imaginative skills through the use of simple props to begin to make believe.
Mealtimes are a social occasion within this room where we encourage children to develop their social skills through communication and all the children are encouraged to feed themselves with the aid of the staff sitting close by. Children are given a variety of refreshments throughout the day which include fresh fruit and milk. We also introduce hygiene as they help their carer’s with hand and face cleaning before and after meal times.
From the age of 2 your child will progress into the Early Learner room. The ratio changes for over two year olds to 1:5. The children within the Early Learner room are encouraged to become more independent with their choices. The layout of the room means that children are able to move around freely, accessing the activities they particularly enjoy as the staff plan activities they know their key worker children will particularly enjoy.
Children are building confidence and relationships with both peers and carers, and also being prepared for their move up into the Pre-School room. At this important stage, staff are ready to help support parents with children’s development, liaising carefully at the correct times to implement toilet training and possibly reduce sleep times. As part of this leap into independence, children are encouraged to brush their teeth after mealtimes and begin to manage their own personal hygiene more effectively, washing faces and hands independently.
Within this room our core rhymes baskets (which are available in every room) play an important part in children’s literacy development as well as their communication, listening and understanding skills. We use these during circle and story times in order for the children to understand the structure of stories as well as encouraging them to repeat familiar phrases.
At the age of 3 your child will be ready to transition into the Pre-School Room and start their preparations for ‘Big School’. The ratio within this room increases to 1:8 and at this point (the following term after they’re 3) parents can claim their early years funding entitlement for their child resulting in a great reduction in childcare costs.
The children within this room are given the correct tools for them to become confident, resilient and independent, and are supported to achieve their goals in preparation for the transition into Primary School.
The room is set into many areas in accordance with the Early Year’s Foundation Stage, where the children can develop their skills with the help and support of the childcare practitioners in the room. Staff support these areas by facilitating the children’s play building trusting relationships and confidence in children.
