Little Owl Chidcare

About Us

Welcome to Little Owl childcare!

From baby spaces to school readiness we are the childcare care for you.

With sensory areas to support your child's development in the very fragile stages of life to large toddler spaces for children to develop their social connections, speech and language, gross motor skills. They set the foundations for learning and support the preparation for school readiness in our preschools.

We are very play based in our approach which focuses on environmental driven learning, our practitioners set up awe inspiring provocations and environments for learning then skilfully intercept play at crucial stages to impact on learning outcome effectively. They , ensure all of our children are supported to extend their learning or gain new skills and reach their full potential. This way the children build confidence, think critically about problems they come across and solve them themselves, allowing them time to do this lets them take ownership of the play becoming resilient learners whilst we scaffold learning and plan for their next steps.

We make it easy to stay in touch with your child's learning and paly an active role in their life at nursery. From joining us for group play sessions to enjoying the ease of our online learning journey which sends photos and observations of your child direct to your phone through out the day and allows you to do the same. children love seeing photograph of themselves at home or on family days out as much as you love seeing photographs of them.

By joining our nursery you are joining our family...

We have two settings attached to local primary schools one Woodland Nursery and a full day care setting as follows:


Little Owl At Chaseterrace Primary school WS7 1AH - OFSTED RATING GOOD
offering care for children from the age of 2years. Full day care for children from the age of 3 and wrap around before and after care for children from 3 years to 12 years.
A fantastic unit with superb outdoor areas comprises of a Pre school room and separate toddler room. Both boasting their own designated safe play areas. For out of school club, two designated classrooms and use of the school hall and adventure playground. Superb resources and themed nights including film nights, dance,craft, cooking ans sports.

Little Owl childcare Highfields Primary school WS79BT OFSTED RATING OUTSTANDING
Offering childre care for children from the age of 3 years from 9am-3:30pm. toddler sessions for two year olds from 12:30-3:30pm

Beautifully maintained gardens welcome families into this outstanding setting. With winding woodland path way, soft outdoor flooring and outdoor canopied classroom leading to a refurbished classroom with latest computer technology interactive white board. Extremely close links with the primary school with inter joining doors to aid seamless transitions.
Forest time activities enjoyed by all children using the schools nature reserve area


Out of school club provisions provide Tea and snack for the children, nursery provided snack and provision for parents to bring a packed lunch or purchase a hot dinner from school at Highfields


Woodland Pre-School nursery -WS7 3PH Inspction rating GOOD
Children aged 2.5years to school
Hours 8am-5pm term time
Full day or Sessions available

– ‘the best classroom and richest stockroom is only roofed by the sky…’ Margaret McMillan

Set in beautiful grounds of Burntwood Rugby club on the edge of Chase water, our woodland nursery awaits you. With winding footpaths under a canopy of nature, discover a magical, make-believe world where anything is possible, using natural resources to build play based experiences, observe your child’s resourcefulness and confidence to make decisions and allow themselves creativity of thought without barriers. From problem solving inquisitiveness, to sharing moments of complete stillness just listening to nature. What a perfect platform to nurture children’s natural curiosity and thirst to learn.
This is a unique learning opportunity for your children to join a nursery driven by passionate outdoor teaching experts with skills to support your child’s learning right through to school age. No elements of the early year’s curriculum will be left unturned just creatively delivered to your child within a natural environment. Safety in the woodland is crucial and children will be taught how to keep themselves safe and risk assess themselves, with the support of adults to ensure the site id safe and risks are analysed in different situations to develop their perspective. They will be taught how to use tools safely, rules of the fire circle and respect the woodland code.
Children will discover the impacts on nature of the changing seasons, learn how to care for our wildlife and develop their resilience to meet challenges, self-assessing risk, and becoming problem solving critical thinkers. Foundations for life will be built, embedding physical skills essential to support writing, emotional skills, essential for supporting resilience in the world, and developing a rich vocabulary and higher level of confidence with speaking and listening . Focus workshops and creative teaching strategy to support early phonics, reading, writing and mathematics in preparation for your child to start school.
Fantastic indoor area provides a hub to meet, have our food and to support days we are unable to go outside.
Fresh food prepared on site daily, snacks and drinks available through out the sessions

Little Owl Day care- Based in Cannock - WS11 1UE - Inspection rating GOOD

Based in the centre of Cannock we are ideally situated to provide full day care form your children from Birth to 5years with easy of drop off and collection.

Open from 7:30-6pm providing full day care and sessional care.

We have three bespoke resourced play spaces to support your child at each individual stage of their development. Every area of the nursery has a beautiful outdoor space to allow for outdoor learning all year round. We are inspired by Regio Emilia and take aspects aspects of forest school, loose parts play and encourage children to become curious, excited learners.

All of our practitioners are fully qualified and experienced working in the childcare sector. We pride ourselves on the quality of our provision as families return year on year and recommend our services,
Freshly prepared healthy meals are provided for children throughout the day, drinks and snacks are available through out the sessions.



Toddler sessions for families available on
Monday and Wednesday - Woodland Nursery
Friday - Highfields Site