About Us

Cromer Childcare has been established for over 57 years. Our team are committed to providing a warm and friendly home from home environment for every child.

We provide 15 or 30 hour free childcare places to children who meet the eligibility criteria.  Please feel free to give us a call to discuss your circumstances, or to check your eligibility for 30 free hours click here or click here to check for 2 year old eligibility.  You can also pay for a ‘Top up’ place if you are not eligible.

We believe that children learn best by actively pursuing their interests and ideas through play. Play allows them to explore ideas, feelings and relationships. We encourage children to become independent learners by providing them with opportunities to play, explore, investigate and follow their own interests.

We value learning outdoors, and believe that being outdoors has a positive impact on children’s sense of well-being and on their development. Children have access to the outdoor learning environment throughout the day supporting the development of healthy and active lifestyles by offering children opportunities for physical activity, and movement, and promoting a sense of well-being.

Our experienced staff team facilitate the child’s process of creating and developing theories about the world, helping them to problem solve through open ended questioning and differentiated responses.

Children’s personal, social and emotional development is central to their learning and we support this through the development of positive and caring relationships. We support children in managing feelings and behaviour through giving them the vocabulary to recognise a range of emotions.

Parents and carers are welcome to drop into the setting at any time, and we hold Parent Meetings in the autumn and spring term, where you can talk about your child’s learning and development with their Key Practitioner. We also do Stay and Play sessions that happen once a term.

We regularly observe and assess children’s learning to plan appropriate learning activities.  Each child has an on-line Learning Journey (Blossom) which is a record of their progress, and includes observations and photographs of the child playing and learning. Parents are invited to contribute to their child’s Learning Journey with things they have been doing at home. This helps us to get a better understanding of your child’s learning and development and to plan activities to support and extend it.