Welcome to Noah's Ark Nursery:

Noah’s Ark Nursery is a privately run day nursery situated on West Park Road in South Shields and has been open since March 2000. The building has been designed especially to cater for the children and their needs and is registered by Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education). At present we can care for 78 children at any one-time aging from 6wks old up to 14yrs old.

As we are a small nursery we are able to provide a loving home from home feeling to all, which can also help children to settle in and feel more confident in their new surroundings. We have been helping to provide childcare for local families as well as further afield, since September 2005 by providing an out of school service to continue helping working parents. All children have access to the private enclosed onsite play area and garden, which is situated away from the main road and provides each child with a safe and secure place to play whilst allowing them to have fun through lots of learning experiences.

We aim to provide children with happiness, freedom, guidance, discipline and kindness in a consistent, secure environment. We recognise the emotional needs of children include attention, affection, security, a sense of belonging and personal growth. They need encouragement to learn from experience, the opportunity to explore, investigate, experiment and be given appropriate activities that encourage children to reach their full potential.

All children learn through play – the principal means of learning in early childhood. Through play children gradually develop concepts, learn to discriminate, make judgements and use their imagination.

Help with Childcare Costs:

Help with childcare costs is available from different sources. This information is for parents who are very young, lone parents, students, parents who are entering training or work and those already in work who want to use childcare.
If you wish to discuss any of these options further, please do not hesitate to contact one of our nurseries managers.

Highest Ofsted Report in the Borough for Private Nurseries:

We are all very pleased with the recent Ofsted inspection. We have work extremely hard over the last 3 years to achieve these standards and have received the highest Ofsted Report in South Tyneside and are now looking to reach the same levels of quality in our new sister nursery, Westoe village Kindergarten.
You can view our newest 2009 Ofsted Report here

Grant Funding Support for Working and Student Parents:

We have just been awarded free childcare hours for parents, equivalent to 3 free hours per day, 5 days a week. This totals 15 hours free childcare a week. This means at no cost to the parent and is  available to children 3 years and above. For more information please phone (0191) 454 3223.

New Nursery open at Hebburn College:

We are please to announce that a new Noah's Ark Nursery is now open on the Hebburn College grounds, formerly the college childrens day nursery. This new nursery caters for 0 - 5 year olds, and the first 20 children that register will have their fees at a fixed price for 2 years.

Catherine Cookson Parade:

We are delighted to announce that we will be taking part in the Catherine Cookson Parade this year. We will be having a multi cultural theme where all children will be making Native American Headdresses and parents are invited along as well.

Nursery Graduation:

Our nurseries graduation is on the 16th of July, for all our children that will be moving into full time education in September. It will be held at Hedworth Hall where all children can play a variety of party games and will be presented with their certificates