At Seashells Nursery we promote healthy nutritious snacks and meals.
We will provide a selection of fresh fruit and vegetables during snack time for your child to try and enjoy. You will be required to provide a healthy pack lunch for your child. If you are stuck for ideas on how to prepare a healthy and nutritionally balanced packed lunch, then please speak to a member of our team who can assist you. Due to allergies, we ask that products containing nuts are not included in your child's lunch box and we encourage them to be as healthy as possible.
We encourage independence wherever possible. For example we will ask the children (excluding the baby room) to help prepare their own food for snack with supervision from a member of staff.
To ensure we meet the needs of the child, we request that all allergies and special dietary requirements are brought to the attention of staff at the time of enrolment. Should any health issues arise later, please bring this to our attention as soon as possible.
Special Treats: If parent/carers wish to bring in cake for their child's birthday this can be supervised and distributed by staff. Please be aware that we will only accept cakes that are in a sealed manufacturer's container. Unfortunately we are unable to distribute cakes around the nursery that are home made.
A typical nursery day includes...
Breakfast: Children can choose from a selection of cereal from the trolley: examples of choice are -Weetabix, Cheerios, Rice Crispies, Cornflakes & Shreddies
Drinks available are: milk or water
Staff are on hand to welcome parents/carers and their children. The children may choose from activities set out to welcome them
Morning snack: Snack will vary throughout the week but examples of what we provide are as follows: Fresh fruit pieces, variety of cheeses both hard and soft, bread sticks, rice cakes, dips (houmous, sweet chilli, mango chutney, guacamole) crackers, vegetable crudites, pitta bread, tortilla. At every snack time the children have the choice of either milk or water.
Lunch: Please provide your own packed lunch
Afternoon Snack: As listed above for the morning snack Tea: Please ensure you provide your own food for your child to eat.