6–18 months
Baby Group
From six months until they start walking. Each baby’s sleep and feeding times follow their routine at home; we run a baby calendar, not a group calendar. One educator for every three babies.
For babies who sleep and eat on their own rhythm.
- Adult : child ratio
- 1 : 3
- Group size
- max 9
- Age range
- 6–18 months
- Classroom
- Garden floor, 46 m² playroom + a separate darkened sleep room (9 cots)
- Sleep
- Two naps a day, timed to the baby’s routine at home
- Opening hours
- 07:30–19:00
In the baby group the timetable is written around the baby. In the first week we put the baby’s sleep, feeding and soothing habits on a form together with the parent; the educator rereads it every morning. Never missing a bottle time, never cutting a nap short and greeting the baby with the same familiar face are the three ground rules of this group.
Nappy changes, meals and naps are logged as they happen, and at the end of the day the parent receives a filled-in report card. Medicine is only given by our nurse, with a doctor’s prescription and the parent’s signed instruction.
What grows in this group?
- Secure attachment: every baby has one key educator
- Daily movement time for tummy time, sitting, crawling and first steps
- Sound, rhythm and first words through songs and back-and-forth talk
- First self-care attempts: holding a spoon, drinking from a cup
Baby Group: a day
Times are approximate; they flex to the child’s rhythm.
- 07:30
Welcome
Two minutes with the parent: how was the night, last feed, any medicine?
- 08:30
Breakfast or formula
Formula from home or the club’s mashed breakfast.
- 09:30
Floor play
Tummy time, sounds, mirror and texture games on the mat.
- 10:30
First nap
Each baby in their own cot, at their own time.
- 12:00
Lunch
Purées and mashes approved by our dietitian.
- 14:00
Second nap
Nap length and wake-up time go on the report.
- 16:00
Snack and books
Cloth books, songs, a crawling course.
- 18:30
Goodbye
End-of-day report: nappies, how much they ate, how long they slept.
What goes in the bag?
Your ticks are saved in this browser; print it and stick it on the fridge.
Don’t forget to label everything!
Come and see the Baby Group room
A 30-minute visit: you’ll see the classroom, the sleep room and meet the teacher.