Business Details
Your Trusted Child Care Partner in Shrewsbury
At Katie's Kids Nursery, we provide a nurturing environment where every childs development is our priority. Our approach focuses on holistic growth, combining structured learning with child-led exploration in purpose-designed spaces. With dedicated key workers maintaining low staff-to-child ratios, we ensure individualised attention that supports emotional, social, and cognitive development. Our outdoor wilderness area, sensory rooms, and creative spaces foster curiosity through hands-on experiences. Regular cooking sessions, music activities, and local excursions enrich learning while promoting independence.We track progress transparently, maintaining open communication with families to align care strategies. Our teams expertise ensures children build confidence, social skills, and a lifelong love of learning. Nutritious meals prepared daily support healthy development, with flexible full-day and half-day options available. We accept government funding for eligible families while maintaining consistent quality across all sessions. Our commitment to creating a secret forest-like environment close to town combines nature with modern educational practices, ensuring children leave us school-ready and full of wonder.
Services
Day Care
Toddler Programs
Pre-School Education
Outdoor Learning
Cooking Sessions
Sensory Development
Funded Childcare
Bush Craft Activities
Music & Singing
Messy Play
Highlights and features
- We maintain low staff-to-child ratios with dedicated key workers for personalised development plans
- Our outdoor wilderness area combines nature exploration with structured bush craft learning sessions
- Daily cooking activities promote healthy eating habits and practical life skills
- We accept 15-30 hours government funding while maintaining consistent care quality
- Regular progress updates ensure parents remain actively involved in their childs development journey
What people say
Excellent care
Wonderful staff
Amazing fun
Social skills development
Secret forest environment
Services
Day Care
Our day care service provides comprehensive care for children aged 0-5 years with structured routines tailored to developmental stages. We maintain low staff-to-child ratios to ensure individual attention while offering age-appropriate activities that promote social, emotional, and cognitive growth. The service includes access to outdoor wilderness areas, sensory rooms, and creative play spaces.
Outdoor Learning
Children engage in supervised outdoor exploration through our purpose-built wilderness area featuring bug hunting, campfire sessions, and bush craft activities. This service develops physical coordination, environmental awareness, and imaginative play while encouraging risk assessment skills in a safe natural setting. Regular outdoor time supports holistic development across all age groups.
Cooking Sessions
Daily cooking activities teach practical life skills through hands-on food preparation experiences. Children learn about nutrition, food origins, and healthy eating habits while developing fine motor skills and mathematical concepts through measuring ingredients. These sessions also promote social interaction and communication through shared meal preparation experiences.
Funded Childcare
We offer eligible families access to government-funded childcare hours including 15-30 hours weekly provision for 3-year-olds and family support funding for younger children. Our service includes meal charges for funded sessions while maintaining consistent quality standards across both funded and private care arrangements.
Sensory Development
Specialised sensory areas stimulate early development through multi-sensory experiences tailored to different age groups. Our controlled environments use lighting, textures, and sounds to support neurological development while providing calming spaces for emotional regulation. These sessions particularly benefit babies and children needing additional sensory input.
People
Katie
Founder
With over 15 years in early years education, Katie established the nursery to create a nurturing environment combining nature with structured learning. Her vision focuses on holistic child development through innovative play-based approaches.
Rosie
Co-Founder
Rosie brings extensive childcare experience, specialising in sensory development and outdoor learning. She co-developed the nurserys unique wilderness program, ensuring safe yet challenging natural play experiences for all age groups.
Questions
What age range do you cater for?
We care for children from 3 months up to 5 years old across our baby, toddler, and pre-school rooms.
Do you offer government-funded childcare?
Yes, we accept 15-30 hours funding for eligible 3-year-olds and family support funding for younger children.
What outdoor facilities do you provide?
Our wilderness area includes natural exploration zones, campfire sessions, and structured bush craft activities for all age groups.
How do you support child development?
We use low staff ratios, individual learning journeys, and mixed structured/free play to develop social, emotional, and cognitive skills.
Are meals included in the fees?
Freshly prepared meals are provided daily with a £6 charge applying for funded sessions.
How do you communicate with parents?
We provide regular progress updates through Tapestry and maintain open communication channels for family involvement.
Reviews (6)
Julie Tidy
Apr 17, 2020
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Wonderful, caring, educational and motivational.Far more important they all look after my precious grandsons as if they were their family. 😍💙💙
Mollie Wootton-Jones
Jul 11, 2019
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Nothing but amazing ! That’s all I have to say! Such friendly staff, beautiful fun nursery , great skills for learning the fact they even get to learn to cook from a young age is just unbelievable, learning everyday life skills at such a young age is just incredible! The outdoor space is amazing plenty of room to play different activities! I have nothing but amazing words to say!! Would highly recommend for a wide range of ages xx
Alice Meehan
Feb 07, 2019
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Fabulous place, all the staff are so lovely and welcoming, getting to know each child and their parents. It’s a real comfort knowing I’m leaving my son there. The outdoor space for forest school is excellent and the variety of activities they do is brilliant.
Kitty Rowley
Aug 31, 2018
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3 and a half fabulous years at Katie’s. My daughter loved it and was often grumpy that she had to come home! Lovely caring staff and lots of learning though fun - forest school rocks!
Kara Hughes
Aug 18, 2018
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Rhys has been at Katie's since they opened and he was only 9 months old. He has absolutely loved it there and they have developed him so well in preparation for going into Reception class, he is more than ready. All the staff are fab and we will miss them all very much. The level of care is excellent and the children are so lucky to have such wonderful facilities and activities to do. Especially the sessions cooking with Katie and their time in out playing and learning in the forest school. I would highly recommend this Nursery.
Nicky Camburn
Aug 10, 2018
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It's simply Fabulous - ran by people who really do care about your child's experience and happiness! Would highly recommend!
