about maritime minis
Maritime Minis aims to provide the highest standard of care for all children, to enable them to develop and grow socially, physically, emotionally, and most importantly to be happy and have fun!
A little about us
Welcome to Maritime Minis.
Minis is a family run nursery group in the heart of the community putting the children we care for at the heart of all we do.
We opened our first nursery in the Greenwich Millennium Village in 2012, with the vision to be a nursery that is a true part of the community, serving the families in and around the village.
Established by Jo and Ben Hutchings our focus has always been to offer exceptional childcare in an environment that is stimulating, engaging and fun, enabling children to reach their full potential.
By investing in a skilled team who have a passion for childcare, we are able to support each child, so that when leaving us for school they are confident and inquisitive with a love for learning that will last a lifetime.
Maritime Minis is registered with Ofsted, which is the governing body that sets the standards for care and learning in all children’s day care settings. Details of our latest Ofsted report can be found here.
Our ethos
At Minis we strive to be the leader in providing outstanding and inspirational childcare, ensuring that children are embraced as individuals, with different Care and Educational needs. We will always be true to our EPIC values and will continually develop our team and the nursery to maintain the highest professional standards.
Experiences are the foundation on which children build the rest of their lives. It is vitally important to get it right for all children, so they can develop to their fullest potential – academically, socially, emotionally and physically, growing in confidence and being able to participate in the wider community.
We will help all children to develop into active, resilient, confident and independent learners who will move on through Maritime Minis and finally onto Primary school with the knowledge, skills, characteristics, attitudes and love of learning necessary to continue that learning throughout their lives.
Our Mission
Our mission is to nurture and encourage each child to learn and progress within a supportive environment, with dedicated practitioners that work together to provide a joyful, stimulating safe world for our children to explore and be themselves.
Our aim is to provide a range of fun and challenging indoor and outdoor activities to assist the children in their development in a warm and welcoming environment. We always strive to excel and adhere to best practice. While children are taught by all educators in a room, each child has a key carer who is the main person responsible for their personal development, well-being, and progress.
We work in partnerships with our parents and have an open door policy. We hold two parents evenings each year and offer regular updates using our parent software and app “Connect”.
Upon joining minis, we carry out a baseline assessment ensuring that your child is offered the appropriate learning opportunities to be able to extend further development.
We also carry out two year old checks, as well as continually observing our children and evolving our practice, to ensure that we are always child led within our approach.
Our Service
Maritime Minis will be the leader in providing outstanding, inspirational childcare ensuring that children are embraced as individuals, with different care and educational needs. We will always be true to our core (EPIC) values, and in partnership with parents, continually develop our employees and the nursery to maintain the highest professional standards.Â
We are an all year-round provision and are open 08:00-18:00 Monday-Friday. We only close for Public Bank Holidays, 3 days over the Christmas and New Year period and hold three team training days across the year which are notified in advance.
We cater for babies and children from 12 weeks to five-years-old.
We offer flexible options for payment, including childcare vouchers, Tax-Free Childcare and free entitlement (both 15 and 30 hours).Â
Our ePIC Values
Educational
We value educating your child so that they continue to learn and develop, as well as educating our employees in the development of childcare best practice.
Professional
We maintain a professional attitude at all times to provide a quality service. We encourage our employees to continuously develop their skills and knowledge.
We also offer a variety of further training opportunities, at no cost to our team, to enable them to enhance their own personal or professional future development, including Level 3 and Level 5 apprenticeships.
Inspirational
All of our team are passionate and inspired within their work. Team will plan activities to ensure that they are best suited to the individual needs and abilities of each child. We believe in team work, which encourages the sharing of ideas and best practice, enabling our team to thrive as one.
Caring
Not only do we care for your child, we also care for our team by listening to their needs so that they are stress free in performing their duties as an Early Years Teacher. We offer all of our team an ‘Employee Assistance Programme’ with access to monthly perks, mental health and wellbeing literature and a 24-hour support helpline.