Baby Unit

Becket Hall is a listed historic Church Hall, where we have 4 classrooms. We offer well-equipped, educational spaces along with a lovely enclosed large garden.

Baby Unit comprises of two rooms; Pioneers and Explorers.

The lower playroom: Pioneers, are for our youngest children aged from 8 weeks to approximately 15 months old. Adjoined is a separate sleep room with bottle making facilities and nappy changing.   

A second upper deck: Explorers, are for children between 15 months and 22 months. This room offers free flow play on occasion with our next group of children. Mixed-age play has been shown to help children extend their zone of proximal development, as younger children are challenged to play and carry out tasks they wouldn’t be able to do alone or with others of their own age group. 

Our staff are very hands on and can often be found encouraging the babies to engage in messy activities such as hand and feet painting and Jelly play!

The building is also comprised of our children’s toilets, a kitchen, dining space, and a parent area/ office and staff room. We can accommodate up to 48 children with 12 members of staff who maintain a 1:3 ratio for under 2’s and a 1:4 ratio for 2-to-3-year-olds and a ratio of 1:8 for 3-5-year-olds.

Each child is allocated a key carer who will constantly update their key children’s e-learning journal so that parents/carers can view their child’s development and days spent at Becket Hall, this will be followed through the nursery and continued when children move up to the next group.