Fulham Palace, SW6

Millie’s House Nursery & Pre-School at Fulham Palace is a 53 place day nursery for three month to five year olds. Our building is a converted house with a large garden giving our nursery a real home from home feel.

Our Fulham Palace nursery has four rooms dedicated to differing age ranges enabling children to develop in an environment catered to their specific needs in accordance with the national curriculum - The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).

Enabling environments, messy play and fun underpin the ethos of our setting with the outdoors playing a fundamental part in supporting developing a childhood passion for interest in the world around us.

Our Management Team

Marie Bovell, Manager

Marie is a qualified childcare professional with a Level 3 childcare
qualification, as her passion for childcare continued to grow Marie also completed her Early Years Teacher status at University. Marie started her career in child care in 2005 as an unqualified practitioner before becoming qualified, a room leader and then deputy manager. Marie become manager of Millie's House Nursery in 2017. Marie has a real passion for childcare, supporting children to learn, grow and develop.
Marie believes that all children should be given the opportunity to reach their true potential and works closely with parents and her staff team to achieve this.

Aimee Fordham, Deputy Manager

Aimee is a qualified Level 3 childcare practitioner with additional qualifications having her level 2 S.E.N and level 3 SENCO and paediatric first aid. Aimee is keen to develop her skills. She first started as a room leader back in 2016 before stepping up the role of a Deputy Manager in 2019.

Aimee has a true passion with working in partnership with parents in order to help provide the best learning opportunities for the children.

Michelle Smith - Regional Manager

Michelle is a highly experienced professional in our family of nurseries having managed teams at several locations since 1995 before moving to supporting a larger number of nurseries with her valuable expertise. She has a degree and a masters degree in early years education.

With children of her own, her love of early years and parenting drives Michelle’s commitment to deliver a high quality childcare experience within our nurseries, both as an overwatch to ensure best practice within the nursery, and to provide support and training for managers and their teams to maximise their opportunities for creative education.

Natalie Chrystie, Operations Manager

As the Operations Manager for Childcare And Learning Group, Natalie has responsibility for supporting and developing the nurseries and pre-schools within the group, including Millie's House in Fulham Palace.

Natalie is a qualified childcare specialist with over 40 years experience working in the childcare industry including many years running individual nurseries for the group. Leading a senior team of three regional managers and a special projects manager, she ensures that nurseries have the facilities, support and training required to meet the group’s own high standards for best practice in childcare.