Longbarn (Warrington) – Wind in the Willows Childcare

food_rating_5 Wind in the Willows Longbarn is located on Fallow field Grove, Longbarn in Warrington. We pride ourselves on a high standard of quality day care and provide excellent value for money, offering the most competitive prices in the area.

We are open from 8am to 6pm, all year round including bank holidays. We provide the flexibility to accommodate changing work patterns and we are always there to support busy lives. We have a beautiful well-equipped outdoor facility which includes a recently installed wooden climbing frame and a wooden gazebo which can also be used as an outdoor classroom.

Inside we have bright, vibrant and friendly rooms with sensory equipment, a home corner, construction area, water play and so much more!

Wind in the Willows Childcare Ltd can provide ALL children aged 3 to 4 years with 15 hours FREE Early Education Entitlement. We can also provide children who are 2 years old the FREE Early Education Entitlement for those families who meet the Department For Education(DFE) criteria. Please ring for further information.

In our latest Ofsted Inspection we achieved a rating of Good. Please take a look at www.ofsted.gov.uk

For more information or to take a look around contact us on 01925 818818 or longbarn@witwchildcare.co.uk

Location Details

Manager Name: Carol Clynes

House / Building Name: Wind in the Willows Childcare

Address Line 2: Fallowfield Grove

Address Line 3: Longbarn, Warrington

Postcode: WA2 0QQ

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Telephone Number:01925 818818

Opening Hours

Monday: 07:30 – 18:00

Tuesday: 07:30 – 18:00

Wednesday: 07:30 – 18:00

Thursday: 07:30 – 18:00

Friday: 07:30 – 18:00

Saturday: Closed

Sunday: Closed

Latest News

March 21,2018

Pasta play at Longbarn

The children explored with a range of textures and shapes when playing with different cooked and uncooked pasta, threading penne pasta onto spaghetti and twirling pipe cleaners around the pasta twirls, we used lots of different words to talk about shapes, patterns and the texture of our creations. T Read More >

January 22,2018

Caring for our nursery environment

At Longbarn our children went out into our nature garden to help fill up all our bird feeders and put out fresh water for the birds. The children showed a keen interest in the birds and were happy to help feed them, they showed they could listen and follow instructions and also developed their knowl Read More >

December 21,2017

Christmas Stay and Play at Longbarn

At Longbarn we had a Christmas stay and play. Thank you to the parents who came along to our Christmas stay and play we are really pleased that you were able to share this experience with us. We had lots of different activities for everyone to explore including making our own reindeer food, playing Read More >

October 30,2017

Diwali at Longbarn

Longbarn’s Diwali celebrations we made Diva Lamps from clay and painted our finished pots , placed a candle in them and took them home, we also created firework Diwali pictures using straws and paint and made large Rangoli patterns with chalks and used our fingertips as paintbrushes and coloured i Read More >

Special Events

March 29,2018

Longbarn Easter Egg Hunt

Longbarn had lots of fun on their Easter Egg Hunt, we found lots of Easter Eggs and cannot wait to eat them. We have spent the week doing Easter activities; egg and spoon races and making Easter cakes #Easter #fun Read More >

February 14,2018

Longbarn’s Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day)

To celebrate Shrove Tuesday also known as pancake day we made our own pancake batter. We looked at our recipe and spoke about what ingredients we needed and set to work to measure them counting our eggs and measuring our flour on the scales and our milk in the jug, we encouraged early mathematical s Read More >

January 22,2018

Winnie the Pooh Day at Longabrn

Longbarn celebrated Winnie the Poohs birthday today. We started off our morning with Toast and Honey for morning snack, followed by Honey and chicken casserole for lunch. We had a bear hunt in the playroom and lots more bear activities including making our own bear paper plate for our teddy bears pi Read More >

December 21,2017

Christmas at Longbarn

At Longbarn we have had lots of fun celebrating Christmas this year, we have been busy with activities and games at our party. We had lots of parents and carers attend our stay and play session and it was lovely having them at Nursery. The children really enjoyed showing them their place of learning Read More >

Children at the halloween pre-school maths activity

October 30,2017

Longbarn Halloween

Halloween pre-school maths activity. Our pre-school children at Longbarn have been learning about size and measuring objects. Today we used paper clips to measure the different Halloween objects, this helped us to decide which pumpkin was bigger by counting the paper clips we had used to measure, we Read More >

July 17,2017

Longbarn’s Graduation Evening

The children, Staff and Parents had an emotional night when the children from Longbarn graduated their nursery class this year. We had such a lovely celebration for the children who will be leaving us to join the Reception class in September. Thank you to all who came and made the event so special. Read More >

February 02,2017

Guide Dogs for the Blind

Today our Pre school children had a visit from Rose and her guide dog Quip. Our children have been learning about people who help us linked to the People and communities area in the EYFS and we have been learning how some things can make us unique and the similarities and differences between the Read More >