Trusting Hands Day Nursery

If you have any questions regarding the nursery please email us at nursery.manager@gdt.org.uk or call us on 01792 222670 and we will endeavour to support your needs.

Trusting Hands Day Nursery is located within the Canolfan Gorseinon Centre.

We at Trusting Hands aim to provide a high quality of childcare, in a warm, friendly, happy and welcoming environment, for all children. We originally opened our doors to support the community in September 2008, and have grown and expanded to four main play areas. The Nursery is inaccessible from the main building, having its own independent entrance with secure access.

The four main playrooms are:

• The Buttercup room which cares for 18 babies from 3 months to 18 months
• The Daisy room which cares for 24 children, aged 18 months to 2½ years old
• The Daffodil room which caters for 24 children from 2½  to 3½  years old and;
• The newly opened Sunflower room (separate building)  which caters for 20 children aged 3½ and upwards. 

We operate from Mondays to Fridays, 8am to 6pm; with half-days 8 till 1pm or 1 till 6pm; only closing for Bank Holidays and one week between Christmas and New Year. We offer any combination of half or whole days, dependent on availability.

We offer Parents of 3 & 4 year olds the opportunity to participate in the “Free 30 hour Childcare Offer”, which entitles them to an average of 17½ hours’ free childcare at our Nursery, for 48 weeks a year. Parents then only have to cover the cost of their children’s meals on those funded days.

We’re fully registered with Care Inspectorate Wales, and you can view our inspection history online. In addition to meeting all legal childcare ratios, our Manager Zoe Evans and Deputy Cassie Davies are supernumery and always available, sharing over 30 years of combined experience.                                                                                                                                        

Zoe has an NVQ Level 5 Higher Apprenticeship in Leadership & Management, an NVQ Level 2 in Customer Services, & Team Leading, plus BTEC level 3 National Diploma in Childhood studies. With our Deputy Manager Cassie working towards her, level 5 qualification in childcare development. We have now increased our senior Management team to include an Assistant Manager to help support the Manager and Deputy with the increase in number capacity.         

Our Senior Team Staff have a wide range of childcare experiences, gained from a variety of childcare settings. We encourage all staff to access further training, as well as renewing essential qualifications, most of which we access through the following bodies: National Day Nursery Association; Swansea Family Information Services; Swansea Council for Voluntary Service and Swansea Social Services.

Currently our staff have English as their first language; although three staff can converse in Welsh and have a broader understanding of Welsh, which supports us in introducing our children to the Welsh alphabet, numbers, colours, phrases, nursery rhymes and songs.

Nursery Staff are trained in Food safety, so prepare our healthy breakfast and teatime snacks, while our designated Nursery Chef prepares our freshly cooked dinners and desserts daily. The Chef’s kitchen and our nursery kitchen have both scored separate five star ratings. We have also achieved the “Swansea Healthy & Sustainable Pre School Scheme,” which we share with parents, thus promoting and encouraging a healthier and active lifestyle for all our babies and children.

Our nursery provides high quality care in a warm, friendly, happy and welcoming environment, for all babies and children – paying particular attention to their individual needs. Children will be encouraged and supported in all aspects of their development, with our aim of helping each child achieve their full potential, to become happy, confident and independent individuals.

Prospective new parents are able to ring us to arrange a viewing of the nursery, and meet with the Manager and staff to discuss their individual requirements.

We offer parents free settling in periods for all babies and toddlers, with our aim being to ensure babies and children become familiar with staff and surroundings, which provides a fun, happy and exciting experience for all.

Parents are made aware of the need to provide contact details, and complete the Nursery contract, as nursery staff will need to contact them if their child is unwell, or if there is an emergency. 

In the Buttercup Room and Daisy Room, we follow babies’ own daily routines for bottle feeding & mealtimes, and can also accommodate their daytime naps in our quiet area, which is equipped with appropriate cots.  A full range of activities are offered throughout the day, to aid children’s social, emotional, physical, creative and intellectual development in a fun and happy environment.

In the Daffodil Room we offer our toddlers, aged 2½  to 3½ years old, more opportunities of learning through play. This spacious room is set out to offer an open plan environment, making all areas accessible to all children, thus enabling them to make their own choices and explore the various core areas of learning as set in the new curriculum for Wales for non-maintained Nurseries : –

• Expressive Arts
• Health and Well-being
• Humanities
• Language, Literacy and Communication
• Maths and Numeracy
• Science and Technology

These will be covered within the following play areas: –

• Role play area
• Construction area
• Small World area
• Mathematical area
• Writing area
• Story Corner
• Creative area

In all our playrooms we follow the Early childhood play, leaning and care developmental pathways and framework. This framework focus on what is important for the children’s development and how we can best support the children in our care to grow and develop in ways that suit them.

These are:

• Belonging
• Communication
• Exploration
• Physical development
• Well-being

Our Sunflower build for the over  3½’s  has been designed to enable children to have greater opportunities in the six areas of learning, as outlined in the new curriculum. We follow the four main purposes of the new foundation learning as set in the new curriculum, to ensure all our children become:

• ambitious, capable learners ready to learn throughout their lives
• enterprising, creative contributors, ready to play a full part in life and work
• ethical, informed citizens of Wales and the world
• healthy, confident individuals, ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society

It is important to ensure that our learning environment within the settling provides consistent opportunities for:

• play and play-based learning
• being outdoors
• authentic and purposeful learning
• physical literacy

Each child will have their own mid-term journey review, which allows staff to engage with parents and inform them about their child’s personal journey through the setting. We feel this gives a more personal touch to assessment rather than a generic approach. This review will allow staff to record things the child has done through the term, including skills, they have been developing and include information on how families can support their child’s development further.

Throughout the Nursery, we use the FAMLY APP to document the children patterns, update nappy changes, milk times, sleep times and information on what we have been doing throughout the day. It gives the parents the opportunity to message their child rooms for updates and messages and we post up-coming events.

We have also enrolled with “Wellcomm” which helps us to identify any support needed for children who may be experiencing delays in their Speech and Language development.  We anticipate this will be a very useful tool, which will potentially benefit many of our children.

We are extremely fortunate to have a large outside play area, comprising many trees & grassed areas, which is surrounded by a safety surface throughout.  We also have 3 separate planters where the children and staff plant and look after flowers, as well as growing our own vegetables, for eating at snack time.

Key members of staff have balance bike training which we are able to offer to all our over 3’s children in set groups during their time with us.

All of our policies will be provided with a Welcome pack when you register with Trusting Hands Day Nursery.

Prospective new parents are invited to call us to arrange a viewing of the nursery, and meet with the Manager and staff to discuss their individual requirements or email us at:

nursery.manager@gdt.org.uk

 Childcare Fees

April  2026

Trusting Hands Day Nursery

Canolfan Gorseinon Centre

Millers Drive

Gorseinon

Swansea

SA4 4QN

Tel:  01792 222670