Welcome

Nunthorpe Nurseries began in 1989 when quality nursery care was very hard to find, child places were desperately short and waiting lists for baby places were as long as nine months. With a great deal of determination Ian Paul (the nursery owners) managed to purchase a building at Nunthorpe which over a period of over six months was transformed into a 35 place nursery. Customers were very impressed and within a short time the nursery became full and soon needed to be extended.


Nunthorpe Children's Day Nursery gained a reputation for quality and excellence which attracted the attention of I.C.I. who were searching nationally for an operator for their prestigious new nursery at Wilton Castle . It became apparent that Nunthorpe Nursery had the approach and hands on management skill which proved to be an important factor in securing the contract.


Within the next two years Nunthorpe Nurseries Group gained another two nurseries, one on Acklam Road Middlesbrough, the other at the T.A.D. Centre near Ormesby. With a growing reputation another nursery was opened in Billingham in 1994 bringing the number of establishments to five. In 1997 Teesdale Children's Day Nursery was opened at Teesdale Business Park at Thornaby in a brand new purpose designed building catering for 62 children.


In November 1998 Nunthorpe Nurseries purchased Minus Five's Day Nursery near Ingleby Barwick which was a purpose built nursery with an excellent reputation. More recently a new 82 place early years centre has opened at Nunthorpe incorporating an after school club and wrap around service. In 2005 we opened a prestigious 85 place nursery on MartonRoad, opposite the new James Cook hospital Two new additions to the group are a 51 place nursery Poppets situated in the grounds of park end primary school and Minnows a 78 place nursery at Brambles Farm.


This brings the nursery group to be the 20 th largest nursery chain in the country and the biggest provider of childcare in the North East with a total of 650 places. With a continuing commitment to providing quality childcare Nunthorpe Nurseries will endeavour to improve the standards of childcare into the millennium.

* Excellent facilities
* Pre-School Education Programme
* Outside safety surfacing
* Breakfast, After school and Holiday Club
* Pick up service to local schools



Our Nurseries

Nunthorpe

Vicky and Gemma - Deputy Manager
Katie Headland - Manager

Managers Message:
'Hi, I’m Katie Headland and I have worked within the nurseries group for 15 years. I began working as a nursery nurse and have worked my way up the ladder to be nursery manager in 1994. I am now manager of two sites in Nunthorpe, I have an excellent team that support me 100% and our aim is to provide all the children in our care with lots of opportunities to explore and learn through play. Nicola my deputy manager has a B-Tec National Diploma, she works in the baby room with the children aged from 6 weeks to 1 year. You are welcome to come anytime to look around the nursery as Nunthorpe Nurseries has an open door policy. We look forward to meeting you.'

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Nunthorpe Early

Vicky and Gemma - Deputy Manager
Katie Headland - Manager

Managers Message:
'Hi, I’m Katie Headland and I have worked within the nurseries group for 15 years. I began working as a nursery nurse and have worked my way up the ladder to be nursery manager in 1994. I am now manager of two sites in Nunthorpe, I have an excellent team that support me 100% and our aim is to provide all the children in our care with lots of opportunities to explore and learn through play. Nicola my deputy manager has a B-Tec National Diploma, she works in the baby room with the children aged from 6 weeks to 1 year. You are welcome to come anytime to look around the nursery as Nunthorpe Nurseries has an open door policy. We look forward to meeting you.'

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Billingham

Jayne - Deputy Manager
Louise - Manager

Managers Message:
'My name is Louise, I have worked for Nunthorpe Nurseries since 1991. I am N.N.E.B qualified and have certificates in child protection, first aid and food hygiene. Jayne my deputy has also worked for the group since 1995. The staff and myself offer a friendly, caring and loving environment for the children in our care. We would like to welcome any new parents to our nursery and hope we will see you soon.gg'

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Minus Fives

Katherine - Deputy Manager
Sue - Manager

Managers Message:
'My name is Sue Coates and I am the manager at Minus Fives Day Nursery. I started working as a nursery nurse at this nursery in 1993. It was then bought by Nunthorpe Nurseries in 1998. Since then I gained promotion to deputy at Teesdale Nursery then transferred back to Minus Fives as Manager in 2003. I enjoy working at Minus Fives with a very supportive team of staff that provides a caring and stimulating environment for the children and opportunities to meet new people. My deputy Katherine has worked at this nursery for seven years, she has a Cache Diploma and has also completed a NEB’s management course. Katherine works in the pre-school where she is responsible for the care and education of children aged from 3 to 5 years. Katherine and myself are available to show you around our nursery, please ring if you have any questions or queries about nursery life. We look forward to meeting you soon.'

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Teesdale

Vicky - Deputy Manager
Becky - Manager

Managers Message:
'I’m Becky. I have worked for the company for nearly 6 years now and recently taken on the role as manager. I have B-Tec Diploma and NVQ 3 in management. I work with a team of qualified and experienced nursery nurses who take pride in their work. I am very approachable person who enjoys working with children of all ages. We provide a friendly atmosphere for both parents and children. I work alongside my deputy Vicky who has worked for the company for 7 years she has gained her N.N.E.B and loves her work in the baby room.'

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TAD Centre

Sammie - Deputy Manager
Sally - Manager

Managers Message:
'Hello, my name is Sally and I am the manager of the TAD Centre Day Nursery. I joined the company in February 2004 after moving to the North East. I previously worked in West Yorkshire as a deputy manager in a private day nursery since I gained my N.N.E.B in 1995. I have cared for children aged from 6 weeks to 8 years throughout my career. Sammie my deputy manager has worked for Nunthorpe Nurseries for 4 years. Sammie loves her role as deputy and works in the weeny room with children aged from 1 – 2 years. Sammie and I look forward to showing you around our nursery.'

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Acklam

Rachel and Claire - Deputy Manager
Lucy - Manager

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Poppets

Lesley - Deputy Manager
Helen- Manager

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Martonside

Gemma - Deputy Manager
Hayley - Manager

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Minnows

Mary - Deputy Manager
Jackie - Manager

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Latest News

Date: 02/02/2006 15:09:15
Title: Food issues
Article: Healthy eating.
Last year the BBC launched a series of programs called "Jamies Kitchen" featuring Jamie Oliver the well known chef from the Sainsburies adverts. The theme behind the programme was the generally low quality food being served at schools throughout the country,the root of this problem appeared to stem from home where children have become accustomed to eating this fast and highly processed rubbish and for whatever reason have not assimilated in their diets adequate amounts of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Whilst it is Human nature to take the easy option to give children what they are used to eating, we feel that as the younger children which we look after do not have the insight into what food is good or bad, it would be negligent of us to feed highly processed food to our children so we have decided to embrace Jamies policy by altering our menus at each nursery to minimise excess in sugars salts and additives offering as much fresh vegetables and fruit with food prepared on the premises each day. The difficult part is children which have highly proccessed food at home turn their noses up at "proper" food which we provide so it is also down to parents to take responsibility and give a bit of extra thought as to what food what is given in the name of convenience. We welcome any feedback or comments from parents and if any help is required about children's diets we would be happy to give advice on food preperation and menu planning. As a nursery group we are wholly endorse a meat free diet, with more and more parents waking up to the benefits to us all of a vegetarian diet, we continue to improve and give balanced meat free alternatives. We are also looking into removing msg foods from our kitchens and we have already removed drinks with (aspartame).See article below!!

Date: 26/06/2008 15:42:42
Title: Safety surfacing
Article: New safety surface for Billingham Nursery!! In addition to the small safety surface we have at our Billingham Nursery we have had a new area covered in blue rubber safety surfacing which has proved to be very popular with both parents and staff.

Date: 26/06/2008 15:43:00
Title: Leaflets
Article: FULL AREA LEAFLET DROP (ommission of terms and conditions woops!)
In a bid to lift our nurseries profile to new potential customers we have delivered leaflets to every home in the area with the offer of a free week of childcare to anyone booking a full time place. With an oversight on our part we did not put the terms and conditions of the offer on the leaflet so please accept our apologies for this.
To clarify the offer of a week free childcare just as with our normal policy a month fees have to be paid upfront to qualify for the free week, it is a very good offer!!

Date: 26/06/2008 15:43:13
Title: ASPARTAME
Article: Aspartame is known amongst health addicts as "the sweet taste that kills" If you care about your childs health we insist you type aspartame into Google and see what comes up!!
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener 2000 times sweeter than sugar which is medically classified as an "excitotoxin" in laymans terms it means that it tricks your brain into thinking something tastes sweet by super stimulating cells in particular parts of the brain, this results in rapid expiry of the cell and eventually causes the cells to die, other side effects are headaches caused by dependency sensitivity to bright light and in some cases blindness, there are other far more reaching side effects which you would do well to check out yourselves.
Nearly everything with "diet" or "low/no sugar" almost certainly contain this poison, usually soft drinks are the worst culprits. Why is it in our food and drinks? Our research shows that Aspartame is included as a sugar alternative, the companies who produce this substance by the ton have dubious records as to how it passed the food and drugs administration.
Please draw up your own conclusions!