Puffins at Sowton

It has a welcoming, family-like atmosphere and very positive and polite early years practitioners who seem genuinely cheerful in their work. There is a lot of outdoor playtime and the setting is a quiet location bordered with trees – their own ‘forest’! I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending Puffins at Sowton, especially if you’re looking for somewhere that doesn’t have a large, commercial sense to it. My daughter attends this childcare centre and she loves it.

I’m really cheerful with how quickly she settled in at a very young age and the team are all supportive and welcoming. They do lots of excellent sensory and outdoor activities which she wouldn’t journey at home. I adore that it’s a small setting meaning the team and kids can really bond with each other. Highly suggest! My daughter attends this childcare centre and she loves it.

They listen when I inform them of current sleeping and eating habits and work with me to help with any issues.
Kids get to go out every day in the garden and they arrange all sorts of activities for them.
Kids also get to go on mini excursions every now and then in the local area. Team are very welcoming and supportive.

The team are inviting and welcoming. I like the fact that this is a kid lead setting because it stimulates discovering, teamwork and playtime. My daughter gets excited when I drop her off and she has lots of exciting things to say when I pick her up. She is cheerful and I wouldn’t ask for anything else for a 2-year-old. Thank you for everything Puffins! This is a small setting, but it is really lovely.

All of the team we have dealt with have been excellent, and it feels like they delight in working there. Our son consistently comes home with a big smile on his face, excited by the day he has had. We can’t suggest them highly enough.

He absolutely loves it there and has done since day 1. They’ve been remarkable with his development, and provided a supportive, encouraging and enjoyable setting. He adores the team, and we never have any trouble dropping him off.

They’ve been wonderfully accommodating with everything from my awkward work pattern/roster changes, through the storing and feeding of my expressed milk and our cloth nappies. He’s enjoyed such a wide range of activities from messy outdoor playtime to trips to the library. All the team are really lovely, would 100% suggest. Our 18-month-old has been with Pufffins since 5 months.

The team are incredible, and she has such special relationships with them. She has really thrived at the childcare centre, and they consistently have a variety of different activities inside and outdoors as well as trips out, and she especially loves the cooking activities. She consistently comes home cheerful and excited to tell us about her day, and she’s made some lovely friends. I would thoroughly suggest Puffins; the setting and the team are exceptional. My daughter has been attending Puffins for almost three years, and she absolutely loves it.

We visited Puffins and had such a positive feeling about the childcare centre as soon as we walked through the door, the two team members that showed us around were supportive and was playing with our daughter and making her sense welcome. During the 9 months that our daughter spent at Puffins, not only did her social skills develop but also her self‑assurance and overall development, she used to get excited to go in on her childcare centre day and consistently enjoyed her day, the team were consistently open and honest with us and nothing was too much trouble. If we called to see how she was getting on they would consistently make time to keep us updated and would update the parent app with food logs and pictures. I will consistently be so grateful to Puffins and the part they played in our daughter’s early years care and development. Our daughter attended Puffins one day a week from when she turned 1, I wanted to find a childcare centre to help her with her social development as she spent most of her first year in lockdown.