Maisie Poppins Childcare was started in 2013 by founder and director, Yasmin (Maisie) Darling. Yasmin (Maisie) has over 24 years experience studying and working with children, families and local communities. Yasmin (Maisie) believes passionately that every aspect of a child’s life and environment is equally important and can be a positive component within their overall development and well-being. This includes learning, playing, eating, sleeping, toilet training and boundary setting.

Yasmin (Maisie) has developed The Maisie Poppins Way, an approach that draws on a wide range of resources and practices including early years educational frameworks, evidence-based research, forest school philosophy, the writings of Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky, all combined with Yasmin (Maisie’s) 24 years of experience working with children and families in London and overseas. The Maisie Poppins Way creates a positive and nurturing environment that allows every child’s strengths and qualities to shine.

More about the Maisie Poppins Nursery

A special message from the Manager

Dear Parents and Carers, I hope you are well and enjoying our emerging freedom as we come out of our Covid-19 restrictions. 

Our nursery is currently open for families who are critical workers, special educational needs and disabilities and families that feel more vulnerable at this time. We have x 2 staff working full time (Manager Maisie (Yasmin)  and room leader Rahima) who are both very experienced in all aspects of nursery life and fully qualified.All other staff have been furloughed until we make a ‘phased return’ to full nursery life from June 1st 2020. 

We have used the lock down time to reflect and action on nursery improvements including becoming a paperless workplace, refocusing our holistic curriculum even more on health and well-being, no pressure playful ways to ensure education levels are restored and children feel safe, happy and can make sense of their experiences.

As a staff team we have had a very high level of positive communication throughout the time and have been reaching out to parents and children throughout the weeks with video circle times, video craft and play sessions, video parents evenings with the manager and plenty of early years activities to do at home. We’ve missed each other, the children and families lots and can’t wait to have everyone return and settle the children back in with kindness, patience and warmth.

Our holistic pedagogy and curriculum has been updated in readiness to support our children’s well-being with the highest possible outcomes upon their return.

Government safety guidance will direct our forthcoming policies and procedures updates. All updates are shared with all parents and carers as standard. There is a weekly evening zoom meeting every weds offered to all parents with Maisie, the manager to discuss anything and everything and to access parenting support through the lockdown when useful.

There will be no fees increase in September 2020. All will be reviewed in April 2021.

We look forward to giving a very warm welcome to our current families and those that have been on our waiting list due to start as soon as we are able to have you back. We have taken the opportunity to refresh our nursery with a deep clean, repaint and update which we hope will be a lovely uplift for all. 

We have also been working with nurseries nationally, our local MP Meg Hillier and our lovely Hackney Mayor Phil Glanville to coordinate and campaign for insurance companies to take responsibility and pay up where due and for national government to make financial accommodation in the form of grants for nurseries such as ours who fall through the gaps as we rent from a charity. 

If anyone wants to contact us in the meantime please feel free: admin@maisiepoppins.com

If you would like to read further on our Covid-19 fees and arrangements please see the fee’s page below.

Fees

Thank you and I wish you the best of health and happiness

Maisie (Yasmin)