FAQ's

At Yellow Brick Road Nursery, one-to-one Parent-teacher meetings are usually held at the end of each term. However, if parents wish to meet with their child’s teacher anytime throughout the term to discuss their child’s progress, arrangements are made at the parent’s convenience within the teacher’s time.

Parents you are always welcome to ask your child’s teacher at the time of collecting your child from the Nursery.  If your child stays for the extended afternoon hours, and you cannot meet the class teacher, then the afternoon staff will hand-over your child to the collecting person and a short information slip summarizing your child’s day’s eating and sleeping routine will be given along with a brief explanation.

Yellow Brick Road Nursery is a home away from home for children and their parents. We welcome the parents to walk in any time.  The Nursery is purposely designed so parents can always easily view their children without the children noticing their parent’s presence.

At Yellow Brick Road Nursery English is used as a medium of instruction. In addition, basic Arabic and French lessons are also given to the children along with songs and rhymes.  The children taking the Kung Fu classes also learn to count to ten in Mandarin Chinese.

Yellow Brick Road Nursery provides freshly cooked meals for breakfast and lunch which are highly nutritious and the children love the dinning experience in our designed ‘Koala Café’ dining room. On occasions due to allergies some children have specific dietary requirements and we are happy for them to bring their dietary food from home.

At Yellow Brick Nursery, we have a fortnightly menu, children appreciate and are comforted with routines, and knowing what to expect for their lunch is as equally important as other essential daily routines.

Children at Yellow Brick Road Nursery are allocated to the classes primarily according to their age groups. The Nursery has four main age groups as follows:  Baby Care Group for babies from 2 to 12 months (or walking age), Toddler One from 13 to 17 months, Toddler Two from 18moths to 2+ years, and our Preschoolers or Young Child Group from 3 to 5 years.

The preschool classes for the children aged three and five years (equivalent to foundation stage 1) at Yellow Brick Road Nursery complete very important preschool learning programs and skills which give the children the understanding and the recognition of phonic sounds, counting and also recognizing numbers, quantities, colours and shapes; plus pre-reading and pre-writing programs such as writing their own names and recognizing the same which prepare and equip them to meet the academic challenges of the big school. At the end of the academic year, children in the age group of 3.5+ years “Graduate” from Yellow Brick Road Nursery to go to the big school.

The children at Yellow Brick Road Nursery follow a daily routine and schedule. The time spent in the classrooms includes Circle Time and topic related activities. Some of these classroom activities include the use of the Promethean Interactive Learning Boards and classroom laptops. The children also spend time in other areas of the Nursery such as the Library for story telling, indoor play areas for dress ups, role play, ball games and stage games. Montessori Room for Montessori lessons and the Music Room for singing, dancing, yoga, drumming, dancing and lots, lots more.

When the weather permits the children enjoy play and learning activities in the Nursery Gardens and Playgrounds. The Nursery outdoors is great for activities like cycling, swimming, swinging, sand and water play. Sports - all kinds of ball, hoop and other outdoor games, plus the children enjoy plenty of free time exploring the Nursery gardens and using their own imagination to create their own ‘children’s worlds’ within the safety of the gardens.

Our Nursery works along with the RTA, Dubai Police and the Ministry of Social Affairs towards community services, hence, we do have special visitors like policemen and fire-fighters who explain safety awareness to the children. We also have a special day for our dentist to visit the Nursery children, plus often parents will give a talk to the children relating to their profession, such as doctors and pilots – always in full uniform which is extra exciting and realistic for the children.

Yellow Brick Road Nursery considers on-going staff training to be a high priority and all Nursery staff receive their (Certified) First Aid Training, Early Learning and Child Development, Classroom Assistants and Teachers are must obtain their Promethean Teaching Certification, Nursery cooks are certified with Boeker Food Handling and Hygiene Qualifications, in addition to many other on-going staff training activities.

Yellow Brick Road Nursery is open Sundays to Thursdays from 07:00a.m.to 6:00p.m.  We understand families have different needs regarding their children's Nursery attendance; therefore, our hours and days are flexible and convenient to suit your lifestyle.

Our Nursery times start as early as 7:00a.m. and finish at 6:p.m., however, your children can start their day at which ever time suits you and our convenient finishing times are 12:30p.m., 3:00p.m., 5:00p.m. and 6:00p.m. If a parent is going to be late to pick up their child, they must call and inform the Nursery Reception.  The children can be brought to the Nursery or collected from the Nursery anytime within their registered hours.

We are happy to provide toilet training to your child. If you have already started the training at home, we will follow up on it. The Nursery will require for the parents to provide trainer nappies and a few under wears that will be used during the day. The Nursery has bathroom staff that attends only to all your children’s bathroom needs, so the whole toileting experience for the children is routine and very soon becomes a natural part of their Nursery day.

We have very hygienic, clean and tidy child sized toilets and nappy change areas. Our designated bathroom staff are full time caring for the bathrooms and nappy change areas so the hygiene is always taken care of.  Our bathrooms are always clean and tidy and we use only sensor taps and dispensers to further reduce any chance of cross infection.

During the Nursery Terms three DHA Registered Nurses are always on duty and take care of all the health requirements for all the children.

Our rules for administering medication follow a strict code and further details regarding these are clearly written in the parent’s handbook.

At Yellow Brick Road Nursery, the health and safety of the children is our top priority. The toys and resources are cleaned and sterilized on a daily basis. Since the babies tend to put toys in their mouth, all the toys in the babies’ room are washed immediately after the child is finished playing with them. Within the Nursery we follow strict daily and weekly cleaning routines.

At Yellow Brick Road Nursery, one of our Registered Nursery takes upon entry into the Nursery each morning all the children and parents temperatures, other important measures are taken at this time and throughout the Nursery day to check and prevent any cross infection, further information regarding our procedures are for you to read in our Parent Handbook.

Yellow Brick Road Nursery requires a doctor’s certificate for a child to return to the Nursery if he or she has been ill with any infectious or contagious disease. The Nursery Nurse will reassess the child on returning to the Nursery.

Yellow Brick Road Nursery is an all Inclusive Nursery and we gladly accept children from all countries and races.  Our children are from many countries - at times more than 80 nationalities - this we are proud of as the Nursery is truly a 'United Nations in miniature'!

At times, we have children with special needs who may require extra assistance, however, if a child requires extra learning support assistance, we can gladly accept them in our sister Nursery, Indigo Valley Nursery (near Terminal 2), which has a designated Preschool ‘Early Learning Support Unit’ with specialized staff.