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
September 14,2018
Scooping Station in Longbarn
Longbarn had created a Scooping Station with a range of materials and scoops to help promote ma thematic skills and language. They looked at counting scoops, filling and emptying containers independently and with practitioner support. In addition this activity helped to encourage and promote physica Read More >
June 18,2018
Early Writing at Longbarn
Our pre school children are getting school ready and have been practising writing their names. They are attempting to hold the pencil correctly using the tripod grip and their preferred hand. We have been practising our letters in our name and those that are familiar to us to produce the correct let Read More >
April 30,2018
Longbarn’s Nature Garden
At Longbarn our Nature Garden has recently had a little make over and the children have been exploring this. We have added a new feeding station for the birds, re planting of flowers and various plants and the dens have been recreated. The children have enjoyed exploring the Nature Garden this month Read More >
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
August 15,2018
Longbarn’s Graduation Picnic
Longbarn enjoyed a trip to the local park Graduation picnic. We all had a lovely time at our graduation picnic playing with each other on the apparatus and on the grassed areas. All the children were well behaved and full of smiles and laugher. All the staff at Longbarn would like to say a big [&hel Read More >
June 18,2018
Longbarn visit the Park
Longbarn went to the park to explore the space and engage in some physical activities. The children practised roly polys, handstands and had a play on the parks larger play equipment before having their mid afternoon snack on the park. We are trying to encourage the children to recognise the need fo Read More >
April 24,2018
St Georges Day at Longbarn
Children at Longbarn enjoyed a day of celebrations for St Georges Day. We had tea and biscuits for our morning snack, roast beef and Yorkshire puddings for lunch, and a lovely afternoon tea yummy. We also listened to the story of George and the dragon and mage our own George and dragon masks to play Read More >
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 >
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 >