Chestnuts Childcare

About Us

My name is Christine, and I have been a Childcarer for over 20 years.

At present, I am working towards my BA in Early Years .

I have opened up a childcare facility in Shirebrook. It offers a nursery with flexible childcare as well as an out of school and holiday club. We are the only local setting open 5 days a week to support shift patterns.

This environment is great for children of all ages and abilities, having disabled access throughout the building.

This environment offers older children the opportunity to interact with a large amount of activities such as heuristic play that are age and stage appropriate. We have recently added a new baby room and rearranged the other rooms to offer a really unique setting. We will offer a range of food and drinks as well as outings in the holiday.All food is freshly made on site daily.

The younger children have opportunities to explore and develop in a highly stimulating environment with lots of age and stage appropriate activities.

The setting has 24-hour cctv on site in all rooms to allow parents/carers to have peace of mind as well as keep the environment safe.

Awarded and gained national highly commended 2008 Childminder of the year by Nursery world and runner up for the 4 Children s charity in 2008.I gained finalist for Childminder of the year 2010 for Nursery world.

I live with my husband Lee, who is NVQ 3 trained in childcare and two children, Stephen is 26 years, and Francesca is 21 years old.

The setting is run by a fantastic Manager, Dawn. She has numerous amount of experience in childcare and managing a business.

We make regular outings and trips during holiday time, which are extra to the hourly price. Children have the opportunity to enjoy play in a loving and welcoming home environment.

We regularly plan to meet the needs of all children with the support of parents and carers. Due to us having our learning journals online, it gives parent/carers the opportunity to view information about their child such as daily diaries, observations, photos and in return parent/carers can interact online with their child's key worker and upload any relevant information they have on their child. It allows us to develop a whole picture of each child. Throughout the year, each of the rooms will have a coffee morning/parents evening so you can spend time with the key worker and explore your child's progress in learning and development.

We also welcome children with all additional/ special educational needs and those from different cultures and backgrounds.

We have a vast amount of experience with multiple births and children with Autism, Adhd, Aspherger's, PDA, behaviour issues, and Downs syndrome.

We also have extensive knowledge and experience with bilingual children.

All staff are paediatric first aid trained and regularly undertake additional training. All my childcarers are minimum NVQ level two trained in childcare.

FREE 2, 3, AND 4 YEAR OLD FUNDED PLACES AVAILABLE IN A HOME FROM HOME ENVIRONMENT.

Have you got access to the extended entitlement so you can access 30 hours free for your child, BUT CAN NOT USE ALL OF IT AS YOUR CURRENT SETTING DOESN'T OFFER IT. Why not split your hours and do the other 15 hours with us. The only extra charge would be £5.00 per day if we have to pick up or drop off your child either at school or home.

Open 5 days a week,52 weeks a year, we are extremely flexible to meet all parents/ carers' needs.

We also do a variety of school pick ups and drop offs in Shirebrook -St Josephs;Model School; Park Road; Langwith Bassett and Brookfield; Sherwood School- Warsop, Calow Primary,Welbeck street C of E Bolsover, Horsehead lane junior school Bolsover, Scarcliffe Primary, Shuttlewood - Brockley Primary, Bramley Vale primary, Bolsover Academy school, New Bolsover school, Whaley Thorns Primary; Cuckney Primary, Palterton primary school, Birklands -Warsop, Hetts Lane- Warsop, Church Vale school -Church Warsop, Meden Vale- Warsop, Anthony Bek-Pleasley, Heath primary school

If your school is not one of the above and if you are interested ,we will try to accommodate your needs for the school you require (subject to availability)

We do, where possible, pick up and drop offs from home. At the moment, we cover Glapwell, Bolsover, Palterton, Shirebrook, Whaley Thorns, Cuckney and Warsop areas.

All our vehicles are fully insured, and each child travelling in them is fully insured in case of accident or injury.

We accommodate early mornings from 5 am. for those parents working shifts.

We are being really flexible with parent/carers who need childcare, including unsociable hours, to meet their work commitments.

Since sept 2024, we offer in house care through Chestnuts school care at Bolsover Infants and juniors on Welbeck road. This is based within the school during term time.


IF YOU WANT THE VERY BEST IN CARE AND EDUCATION FOR YOUR CHILD,THEN LOOK NO FURTHER .

YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED AT WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER