Earning an 'outstanding' in 2009 and scooping Nursery World's Nursery of the Year 2010 demonstrate how owner and manager Marie Walker has realised her ambition to create an exceptional nursery.
Since it opened in 2008, Little Learners Nursery, in Skegness, has demonstrated the very best practice under the EYFS, with highly qualified, committed staff and an environment that gives children a wealth of learning opportunities.
For Ms Walker, the process of studying early years theorists as part of her Early Childhood degree was what sparked her passion to create a pioneering nursery.
'Before we opened, Skegness did not have a particularly good reputation for the standard of its provision, although that has improved now,' she says. 'I was determined to launch a setting that was special and give children and parents greater opportunities.'
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