Little Holcombe & Tower View

The most important part of every nursery is the staff. We know our staff are caring, skilled and committed. Our approach to managing staff is that people need to feel valued and empowered and that employees should be ‘looked after’.

We have high expectations of the staff with regards to the care they give your child, in return we offer a good working environment where we hope they feel respected and where they enjoy working. Our management team have remained the same for many years.

We feel this is the key to our success as a lot of nurseries do have a high staff turnover with young and inexperienced managers. Our managers are supernumerary, working in the nurseries every day and know all of the children and their families and offer a personal service. 

Our Senior Manager: Vickie Kaye who has worked at the nurseries for over 20 years. Vickie is a mum of 2, Lucy is 20 and Grace is 15. Vickie qualified in 1996.

Our Manager: Clare Beattie who has worked at the nurseries for over 19 years. Clare is also a mum of 2, Joe is 15 and Olivia is 11. Clare qualified in 1998. 

Deputy Manager: Jamie Gallagher started in 2008. Jamie is the SENCO at Tower View and has recently been promoted through the ranks to Deputy Manager. 

Deputy Manager: Sarah has worked at Little Holcombe since 2005 and qualified with her NVQ 3 in 2007. Sarah has also achieved a BA Hons in Early Years. As well as being the SENCO at Little Holcombe, she also took on the role of Deputy Manager in 2017. Sarah has two children, Jacob who is 9 and Arabella who is 4.  

We also employ a full time Qualified Teacher and EYP (Early Years Professional): Judith has been a part of both nurseries for over 19 years, both as a parent and a member of our team. Judith works with the Pre-school children and helps mentor and train the staff.

All of the manager’s children have attended both nurseries. We value their experience as parent’s as well as highly trained professionals, as this helps them to understand the standard of care every family wants for their own child. We pride ourselves with having a low turn over of staff. Many of our staff have been with us for a long time, starting as trainees and then being promoted throughout the nurseries. We nurture our staff, offering them help and support in their personal lives. We also offer a fantastic staff incentive scheme.