We asked our children and families what their favourite parks were. These are the top 10: Jurassic adventure play park – Seaton Beer park Colyton park Manor farm caravan park Colyford park Anning road playing field - Lyme Regis Road green park - Colyton Clock tower...
Welcome to
Colyton Caterpillars
Colyton Caterpillar Early Education is a fully inclusive environment that meets the needs of all children. Children’s needs are challenged, nurtured and fulfilled in an exciting, unique way that is led by a highly qualified team.
“The wider the range of possibilities we offer children, the more intense will be their motivations and richer their experience” Loris Malaguzzi, founder of the Reggio Emilia approach to early education.
When you join our nursery we are here to support the whole family, parents are so important in their child’s learning journey that we involve them every step of the way.
Our setting is part of the ‘Community’ and we use all the local facilities to enhance your child’s learning. We accept children from 0-12 years, and planning is differentiated to meets their needs and stages of development.
We are passionate about our ethos, believing that all children deserve fun, meaningful learning experiences and laughter.

Our
Services
Sessions
When you join our nursery we are here to support the whole family, parents are so important in their child’s learning journey that we involve them every step of the way.
Activities
It's is our belief that children should have the freedom to express themselves in a way that best suits them. It is our job to provide them with varied rich opportunities to promote and enable them to create and think critically using the resources they have around them.
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Top 10 favourite child friendly cafe’s
We asked our families what their favourite child friendly cafe's were. These are the top 10... Liddons dairy The garden shop (Colyton) Amy's cafe Heron farm The donkey sanctuary The green leaf The hideaway Jurassic soft play Axminster waffle house Otter valley dairy...
Useful information for toilet training
Potty training We have provided a couple of links for advice that are well worth a look, but toileting is always based on each individual in our experience, spanning 40 years! https://eric.org.uk/potty-training/...
Top 10 local parks
We asked our children and families what their favourite parks were. These are the top 10: Jurassic adventure play park – Seaton Beer park Colyton park Manor farm caravan park Colyford park Anning road playing field - Lyme Regis Road green park - Colyton Clock tower...
Top 10 favourite child friendly cafe’s
We asked our families what their favourite child friendly cafe's were. These are the top 10... Liddons dairy The garden shop (Colyton) Amy's cafe Heron farm The donkey sanctuary The green leaf The hideaway Jurassic soft play Axminster waffle house Otter valley dairy...