The Secret Garden
We are very lucky at nursery to have an enclosed garden, but even luckier to have a Secret Garden tucked away at the back! Here we do some of our best messiest play, including the classic mud-pie making. No amount
A guide to starting nursery
Going back to work can be a stressful time for you, not least because you may worry how your baby will settle at nursery. But with a little preparation and good communication with the staff at Harpole Day Nursery, you
Financial help for Northampton parents still at college
There’s some great news for Northampton parents who are still studying at school, college or university. The government offers financial support in the form of a grant called “Care to Learn” that can be used to pay for childcare costs.
Child development in the early years
It’s crucial that the staff at Harpole Day Nursery can assess your children’s development for the whole time they are with us. To do this, we use government guidelines known as Development Matters. They are basically a collection of milestones which
Cutting sugar
At nursery, we have always been careful to keep processed sugar to a minimum, for example by reducing the amount we put in our homemade cakes and desserts. But current guidelines from the NHS suggests 19g per day is suitable
Extended hours free childcare
At Harpole Day Nursery we offer the extended funded scheme which provides three and four-year-olds with additional hours each week. From a term after they turn three years old, all children are entitled to 570 hours of free childcare every
Outstanding Ofsted
Our new Ofsted report arrived yesterday and we are amazed at all those wonderful words written about us! These days it’s sent by email – a small click of the mouse rather than a fanfare rip of an envelope –
Jo’s staff success story
“I thought I would write a little narrative about why I think Bambino is the best childcare setting to work for in the world, well Northamptonshire at least! My first role with Bambino was maternity cover as senior nursery nurse,
Recipes of some of our most loved dishes!
We have been inundated with requests from our parents asking for recipes of our most loved nursery dishes so they can recreate them at home so here’s a few to get you started!
Roz’s staff success story
“I started working for this amazing company in September 2008 as a Senior Nursery Nurse at Harpole Day Nursery, the only nursery in the Bambino group at the time. I was leading the pre-school room and I immediately enveloped myself