Day Child Care Nursery in South Leicester

Full Day Care Nursery, All Year Round in Glen Parva - South Wigston

‘Helping hands,……Happy Hearts,…..Healthy Minds’

Play Days Academy is a full day care nursery, located near South Wigston in Glen Parva, bordering Blaby & Whetstone in Leicester. We offer superior day childcare  and education essential for children aged 0 to 11 years. Our daily play and learning sessions are designed to encourage fun, emotional growth and valuable learning in a safe, secure and nurturing environment. We have spacious playrooms and a beautiful garden to host play and learning sessions. Open from 7.15-5.45 am 

We comply with the New EYFS 2026 framework and Special Educational Needs & Disabilities code of practice, and are registered with Ofsted. We offer personalised nursery services for Babies, Toddlers, and Pre-school children up to the age of 5 years we also offer Holiday Care for children up to the age of 11 years. We provide every child with individual care and attention and provide learning opportunities that meet their interests. Our staff are professionally qualified and extensively checked according to our Safe Recruitment Policy 2025

OFSTED registered Day Nursery 

Play Days Academy works within the framework laid out by The Early Years Foundation Stage, 2026, and strictly adheres to OFSTED compliance regulations. The children are encouraged to develop and harness their individual skills and interests by providing a personalised learning plan, with carefully considered Next Steps for each child. A designated ‘Key person’ is pivotal to ensuring a smooth transition to nursery & critical for every child to establish attachment & security. Key staff work in partnership with our families to ensure that every child’s needs are met and future learning steps are planned according to interest.

 Our Day Child Care Nursery team

At Play Days Academy, Leicester, your child will be given the best nursery care & education. Our staff are friendly, empathetic and enthusiastic about preparing your children for their final transition to school. Each child is allotted a ‘special Key person’ who will monitor his or her interests and skills and develop short-term learning plans working together with families & care-givers

Our staff are DBS checked and their background is extensively checked for suitability, as per our safe Recruitment Policy & the revised EYFS 2026. All of our staff have professionally recognised qualifications, & are experts in providing holistic care & education. We work in partnership with external agencies to provide level 2, 3, 4 Early Years Educator  apprenticeships for our staff, in order to offer the best possible care for all of our children & their families.

Our Open-door policy

We operate an open-door policy and parents are positively encouraged to come in and talk to the staff, to see how the nursery operates. Parents are always welcome, to ensure we have a staff member to host your visit, lunchtimes visits between 11.45-1 pm may provide limited time to answer all of your questions fully, & we want to make sure you leave your visit with all your questions covered. Our invested staff team will provide a daily report to parents regarding their child’s nursery day, where possible we try to give verbal feedback to parents, however session end times are often busy & so we provide an on-line Care Diary, via our Nursery in a Box, parent admin  portal. This provides a two way communication tool allowing parents to update us on how their child has been at home. Our care diaries are updated daily for babies & toddlers; including key information such as, the number and length of naps, the amount of food eaten, number and details of nappy changes, activities to do at home and other essential information. In readiness for transition to school our older pre-school children are given brief verbal feedback of their nursery day. Including notification of key information; accidents, incidents, meals- including how much has been eaten.  

Parents are invited and encouraged to speak with their child’s key person at any time and appointments can be made, at your request, for time with your child’s key person to discuss your child’s progress or any other issues. Regular parent catch up’s are scheduled across the nursery year, especially during transition times such as moving from room to room, & finally on to school.

Parental involvement in Children’s Growth

At Play Days Academy  we believe that parents are a child’s first educators, prior to starting nursery you will meet your child’s key person & together agree a personalised Care Plan, & agreed settling in visits to ensure the transition to nursery is as calm, & seamless as possible. . We will, consult and discuss with the parents regarding all aspects of their child’s development and general care and well-being during their time at Play Days

We see our relationship with parents as a partnership and believe that we should work together to ensure your child receives the best possible start in life. Communication & emotional regulation underpins all learning & both are a priority at Play Days. We implement a number of strategies to nurture learning including;  ‘Every child a talker = ECAT’, ‘Emotion Coaching’, ‘Babbling Babies’, ‘Talking Tot’s, ‘Chatty Children’. We adopt a stepped approach to parental engagement and work actively to excel in our relationships with parents. Male and female parents are equally valued in our setting. For those experiencing relationship breakdowns, we recognise this as a painful time for everyone & it’s important to us that parents feel at ease to speak confidentially to ensure that we can fully support all of you. please see our Separated Families’ Policy.

Multilingual Children & families (speaking English as an additional language)

Communication is supported throughout the nursery & parents are asked to share information relating to other languages spoken at home. Children feel safe & secure when they are able to communicate their needs; we use a host of visuals to ensure our families children & adults who may have difficulties reading or speaking are able to understand & take part in nursery life. We use translator tools to ensure that parents can effectively make themselves understood & heard

No need to look for local child care Nurseries in Glen Parva, Leicester. We provide quality  childcare services at affordable prices. For more information about our day child care services, nursery fees and nursery enrolment procedure, please download our prospectus. Located in the Glen Parva area of Leicester, our nursery is suitable for those living or working in Enderby, Blaby, Oadby, Narborough, Whetstone, Wigston, South Wigston and  South Leicester.

Our Nursery pet 

Interaction with animals is a great way to teach children about empathy, love and care. With expert help from our nursery pet, ‘George’ the Tortoise, we begin to establish social skills and empathy, using our Golden Rules. George doesn’t like angry faces & words; he comes out of his shell with ‘Kind hands’, & ‘Indoor Voices’- ‘BIG Voices, are for OUTSIDE!