Children engaged in early years learning at Hatching Dragons nursery
Children engaged in early years learning at Hatching Dragons nursery

We’re not childcare. We’re your child’s next great adventure.

We know weekends, holidays, and emergency childcare can mean a scramble — but that’s not what we do, and it’s not what you’ll get here. Our team are qualified Early Years Development Specialists first.

During the holidays and weekends we open our doors wider so more little dragons can join in on the magic that’s already happening every day in our nurseries.

Real curriculum, not just childminding.

Your child won’t be parked in front of a screen or shuffled through the day. They’ll be woven straight into the same rich, hands-on curriculum our enrolled children experience every day — language immersion, creative play, movement, and discovery, brought to life by the people who design it.

We see the whole child

Our curriculum is shaped to each stage of development, from the very first months to school-readiness at five.

Weekend Clubs

A proper extension of the week, not a lighter version of it.

Every club is kept intentionally small and led by qualified specialists — our own team or trusted external practitioners brought in specifically for the role — working to the same EYFS-aligned standards and safeguarding-trained approach as every other day.

Children might pull on their wellies for Forest School, taking learning off the carpet and into the mud for den building and minibeast hunts; get stuck into a proper creative session in Arts & Crafts, with real materials and no colouring sheets in sight; cook up a recipe connected to what they've explored that week in Cooking Club, from prep to plate; build coordination and teamwork with trained coaches in Sports Club, through mini football, athletics, and rugby; or dive deeper into Mandarin, Arabic, Greek, French, and more in a dedicated Language Club, learning through songs, stories, and play.

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Holiday Coverage

Term breaks bring the same rich, hands-on curriculum enrolled children experience every day, just with more room to breathe when the usual structure of term time falls away.

Days are full of creative play, movement, and discovery, blending the best of Montessori, Reggio Emilia, and inquiry-led practice, delivered by the same qualified Early Years Development Specialists who design it year-round. Multilingual families keep their languages woven through the day too — Mandarin, Arabic, Greek, French, and Spanish carried through play rather than paused for six weeks.

There's no screen time and no shuffled schedule; every child is still met with the same Ofsted-rated Good standard of care, working toward the same developmental milestones as any other day. Holidays included, not excluded.

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Ad Hocs

Children arrive to a session full of language immersion, outdoor play, and purposeful learning, guided by a team who know exactly what they're doing with children this age.

There's exploring, discovering, and hands-on play woven throughout, with plenty of time outdoors and hungry little dragons kept well fed with freshly prepared food (available for an additional cost) so they can make the most of it. Whether your child joins us for a single day or every day, they get the same rich, developmentally grounded experience — the same caring, DBS-checked and safeguarding-trained staff, the same attentive ratios, and the same daily observations under the EYFS framework.

It's a day built around curiosity and confidence, for dragons aged 6 months to 7 years, whether they're here as their regular nursery or for one-off ad hoc and emergency care

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Two young children sharing a drink bottle at a table with plates of food outdoors by green foliage.

Give them ad hocs that grows with them.

While their friends are watching the clock tick down to term time, your child will be building, questioning, creating, and connecting — guided by specialists who know exactly how children learn best at every stage.From your child's very first day, you are part of how this works — settling in alongside them, receiving regular updates on their developmental journey, and sitting down with us every term to talk honestly about how things are going.