“Spreading love and Cuddles since 2016”
ABOUT US
At Cuddles Daycare, our precious children are always our number 1 priority. We are dedicated to providing individual attention, nurture and devotion in our small groups with babies newborn to Toddlers of 3 years of age.
The founder of Cuddles, Saria Hansen, started her daycare in 2016 with only one baby and a 4 x 7 custom built Wendy House, and quickly grew out of our first daycare and bought our current property in 2018.
We only employ Certified; passionate and loving Teachers and Teacher’s Assistants and together with Saria, the owner’s, 27 years experience of living out her love and passion working with children, we make a dream team, ensuring each individual child gets the best of the best!
At Cuddles, we make use of the ELDAS Curriculum (which stands for Early Learning and Development Areas).
We incorporate weekly themes with the ELDAS Curriculum Framework together with the 5 Key Developmental areas namely:
GROSS MOTOR
SKILLS
FINE MOTOR
SKILLS
SENSORIAL
SKILLS
Social & Emotional DEVELOPMENT
Language & Speech Development
This allows us to focus on each individual child’s comprehensive growth with us, starting from as little as our newborn babies.
We follow a daily stimulation program in our home, away from home environment, ensuring our children’s needs are met individually and that they receive a fundamental start to their school career.
Our Playground
At Cuddles we ensure that our children gets the best learning opportunities through play!
Our Playground is amazingly enormous, with outside play space of 21 meters long by 12 meters wide!
Our play area consists of a 10 meter long custom built bike track; a sand pit; Jungle gym with swing as well as plenty of climbing, crawling, jumping, see-sawing and exploring opportunities galore!!
We teach our children about caring for nature and it’s animals by allowing them to interact with our tame bunnies, tame and loving cats, free roaming butterflies, birds and even Squirrels! We also have a 1.5m fish tank in our Toddler class, which is such a treat for our children!
Our SAFETY
Cuddles Daycare is in Association with the Child Welfare of Somerset West, and our Management and staff are all cleared through the Department of Social Development in accordance with the National Children’s act of 2005.
Our Property is fully enclosed and secured with a full functioning 24 hour Surveilance CCTV system with 18 Designated Cameras to ensure our children’s safety at all times.
Cuddles Daycare is a proud member of the Roundhay Neighbourhoor Watch, as well as Securite Armed Response.
OUR CLASSROOMS
We currently have two classrooms, and planning on building our third classroom soon!
Our baby class consist of 7 custom built wooden cots, each with their own individual bedding, baby bumbo chairs, bouncy chairs, swing chair and a high chair.
Each baby has their own cubicle for their bags and space for spare clothes, nappies ect. Our nappy changing room has a labeled basket for each baby which holds their nappy changing necessities.
We have a large ball pit for our babies to explore in, and a large space to crawl and explore inside and outside.
Our baby class has a Teacher, Teacher’s Assistant as well as a overall Assistant
Our Toddler class consist of a large classroom with it’s own play pretend kitchen, a space for doing art, eating ect as well as a lot of space for educational activities.
We are planning on starting our own veggie garden for our toddlers, where we can teach them about planting and caring for their own vegetables ect.
Our Toddler class has a Teacher, Teacher’s Assistant as well as a overall Assistant.
OUR MEALS
We are Certified to prepare our own wholesome meals for our children, which gets made once a month.
Contact Us
Have questions about our programs, availability, or just want to learn more about how we can care for your little one? Fill out the form below and our team will get back to you as soon as possible!