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At Stepping Stones Day Nursery, we offer your child home cooked, healthy and nutritious meals on a daily basis. This includes breakfast, lunch, tea and snacks in between. All of our meals are prepared and cooked on site by our experienced chef Janine.
Janine is highly passionate about food and loves to be involved in new ideas for our menus. She works daily in our fully equipped on site kitchen providing meals from scratch including homemade breads, fish goujons, roast dinners and more, Janine is also an amazing baker and enjoys creating new dishes and tasty treats for us to try. Our weekly food menu is displayed in each of our nurseries and is rotated on a three weekly basis offering a Summer and Winter menus. We believe that introducing children to experience foods from different cultures and background to ensure this widens their experiences of the world around them and enhances those taste buds.
We can cater for any preferences and dietary requirements that your child may have and are always on hand to help and support introducing new foods and textures. We ask that parents inform us of any requirements during their child's settling in sessions.
Milk and water are provided to the children with their meals and throughout the day.
Children play a large part in meal times. We encourage the children to set the table for lunch and clear away after themselves learning those all-important life skills. Manners are a huge part of meal times and these are role modelled by the practitioners throughout. Children use ceramic plates and knives and forks as they would at home or in a restaurant, it is important to trust our children with these items so that they understand they need to take care of their belongings. Children’s self-serve their own meals and socialise around the table with one another.
We are proud to say that Stepping Stones have a 5 star food hygiene rating which is the highest achievable. We have yearly inspections to check we are complying with all food hygiene rules and regulations.
NCC are are are without a doubt, the best nursery in he local area, if not the country. The children are loved, nurtured and developed within the family environment that the owners and staff have created. The love, care, and understanding of each and every as child as an individual is unique, and refreshing. The consistent environment, home cooked on site, well balanced, varied meals meals and snacks are amazing, and all children are encouraged to try new things, with even the fussiest eaters joining in, all the while learning and embracing new experiences, and gaining confidence in themselves as individuals. The level of knowledge and qualifications of all staff is second to none. My only criticism is, my my children had to Leave! Not only do Pear Tree care about their children, but they also care about about the families too. All are are invited and welcome to discuss their children's progress, and get involved with the various activities within the Nursery. I feel truly blessed to have been, part of something so special and and so unique, and to have been able to watch both of my children develop into the amazingly bright, confident, healthy children that they are today. I cannot thank NCC enough, and would highly commend them (and regularly do) to any parent/care provider looking for something above and beyond the 'standard'!