About Us
Our Team
We believe that our staff are the most important part of the nursery and will are a diverse mix of ages, cultures and experiences. We are looking for men and women who really care about early years and who will help provide a truly caring and inspiring environment for all our children.
Whilst we are aiming to demonstrate a genuine passion for learning amongst our children, we feel this concept is important within our staff team. We advocate for staff to undertake continuous professional development based on areas of interests. For example, practitioners have undertaken Anna Ephgrave Planning in the Moment Training, Risky Play Training, Level 3 Forest School Training, Portage Workshop, Hygge and Schema training to name but a few. We are always eager to research into different ways of life and teaching styles we are passionate and inspired by the Montessori method, Loose Parts and the Curiosity Approach pedagogy and try to consciously adopt and embed some of these concepts into our daily practice and provision.
Please email Camilla on camilla@molesfarm.co.uk if you are interested in joining our team.
Camilla
Nursery Director
Camilla is the Nursery Director of our provision and explains her own personal childhood experience in growing up on a farm is the heart and concept behind the nursery…
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“As children, we were outdoors all the time, getting muddy, building dens, getting plenty of fresh air, playing with twigs and making perfume from rose petals. I think our generation had so much more freedom, we’re trying to create that feeling but in a safe environment. The setting is ideals for parents who want to provide that kind of childhood for their children”
Stephanie
Pre-School Manager
I believe in supporting both children and staff with enabling them to find their own confidence in exploring risky play, loose parts and natural resources. This ensuring they can test ideas and continue to build on their imaginations.
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“Here at Molescroft Farm Children’s Nursery, Camilla and Tamara, believe in the same ethos of allowing children to make their own risk assessments and unwrapping them from the traditional “cotton wool” and supporting them through carrying out their own ideas as we learn more when things don’t go correctly, we can then reflect and evolve. This ethos allowed us to support staff in this ‘new age’ but “old school” hands on way of teaching, taking it back to childhood and making it a fun, family atmosphere with an enriching environment for children to learn.
The difference in the confidence and happiness in everyone, children, staff and parents is unbelievable. The children have a sense of ownership over their learning and their environment and take pride in it. The staff are proud to see how children’s confidence in themselves and being able to work as a team, from what they have planned for their environment and activities. The parents love having such a strong partnership with the team to ensure their children are being well supported, cared for and supported in their life skills as well as their development.
It is by far the best place to work, we feel like we are coming to a cabin in the woods, where we can achieve anything within a team that we call ‘a family’.”
Melissa
Nursery Manager
Molescroft Farm Children’s Nursery is everything I as a professional could ever hope for in an early year’s setting. I joined the team in April 2018 after previously working at a farm-based setting for 2 years. An environment I have being lucky enough within my career to become very accustomed to and soon realised I loved.
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“It has allowed me to personally witness the benefits of children experiencing hands on play and learning on the farm! The nursery ethos is one I fully embrace and promote through my practice. I am a firm believer in children having access to the great outdoors and trust they can absorb so much about the world in which we live in through these enriching opportunities we provide them with daily.
I can now proudly say I am the Nursery Manager at Molescroft Farm after spending 4 years as the Deputy in which I gained invaluable skills and experience. I work very closely alongside Camilla and Stephanie, who with myself and our amazing deputies make up the management team. You will also often find me within the rooms in the setting as working directly with the children and their families is my passion. I also enjoy being part of the immediate team within my role and work alongside some of the most amazing, dedicated and committed practitioners who always go above and beyond for the children and families in their care. As a result, the team deserve only the best and I feel I can support them further as their manager when I understand too who they are and how they work best as individuals. I have a particular personal interest in working with children with SEND and their families and find my SENCo role at the setting extremely rewarding. Completing my BA Hons Degree in Early Childhood Studies helped to support me in my progression both professionally and personally in my career”
Meals
“Food is my passion and getting it right is 100% my aim, especially in early years as this paves the way to a healthy happy child. We use as much of our own home grown produce as possible and locally sourced ingredients. I do not use any processed foods, everything is prepared fresh daily, meaning the children receive all the lovely vitamins and minerals needed within their meals. The children are very involved and hands-on with growing their own vegetables and bringing them to my kitchen for me to turn in to something yummy. They also love picking apples from our own orchard which is well stocked with a variety of cooking and eating apples. I also have my own allotment and enjoy nurturing this on a weekend.”
- Caroline
“An interesting fact I learned about cooking recently is that humans started to become more civilised when they started to cook their food. More vitamins and nutrients were released from a wide variety of plants and vegetation. The brain got bigger and we evolved. The same principle applies to our little people. Feed them a wide variety of freshly cooked food and watch them thrive.”
- Kat
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Caroline and Kat cater exceptionally well for several allergies including dairy, egg and gluten free, our setting is also completely nut free. If you child does have any allergies, please be assured their needs will be confidently met.
Both Caroline and Kat do a fantastic job within our kitchen and as a result we also have our five-star food hygiene rating for the sites!
We have a responsibility to introduce and encourage children to explore a wide range of food so they can become used to its different textures, flavours, and smells. But to be open to such experiences, children need to feel secure and relaxed. Sharing foods socially with friends is an ideal way to introduce children to healthy ways of eating, and such situations will be more successful if the children are free to choose and access the food independently. Here at Molescroft Farm we ensure we are supporting and promoting this across all mealtime interactions at nursery from the very start.
One Big Family
We pride ourselves on building positive working relationships with all of the families who attend our setting. Often, we have heard the phrase “it takes a village” used in relation to raising young children, however a parent once told us in actual fact…it takes a Farm!
Getting to know our families is an integral role in allowing us to be able to fully support and meet the individual needs of the children within our care.
Therefore, we try to involve you and your wider family as much as we can! Such as through regular ‘stay & play sessions’ throughout the year, parents’ evenings, newsletters and through our ‘Molescroft Farm Parent/Carer Committee’ allowing the management team and parents/carers to share successes, developments now and for the future, to enable us to be the best we can be!
Extracurricular
Moo music with Leila
Moo Music is a great fun and interactive regular music session for our Woodland Room where the children sing, dance and play. Music is an essential part of every child’s development and the 125 original Moo Music songs used at the sessions are positive, uplifting, fun and educational. The interactive sessions will help your child gain confidence and develop memory, language and coordination skills in an exciting, enjoyable and multi-sensory way.
Sciencetots with Stephanie
Sciencetots is a programme of unique and exciting science sessions for little ones with inquisitive and curious minds. The children are encouraged to engage in new experiences, learn through trial and error, problem solving, making predictions and testing their ideas through various tailored early years experiments! Sciencetots offers lots of awe and wonder during every session.
Kidslingo
There’s never a wrong time to learn a language; it’s never too late and it’s certainly never too early. In fact, there are distinct advantages to early language learning. Children often seem to pick up new words and phrases effortlessly, in the same way they learn their native tongue. Their minds can absorb this new information, allowing them to quickly begin using a new language with ease and confidence.
During term time each Wednesday the children in the Pre-school Room take part in a French ‘lesson’ with Dawn, this includes lots of singing and dancing alongside learning French songs and words in a fun and upbeat way!
Young children can benefit from learning a second language in many ways, too. If you start them on this path early, then you’re laying down solid foundations to build on as they progress through school. Research has shown that learning a new language may contribute to the development of the brain, particularly in the areas of memory, speech, and sensory processing, and it can also contribute to a child’s self-esteem – even being able to use some simple words and phrases can give children a real sense of achievement. Alongside this, children will be developing vital listening skills, which will support speech and language development.
What Our Families are Saying
