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When did you open?
How many rooms have you got? What are the ratios of staff to children?
What makes you different from other nurseries?
What are the Nursery staff like?
We only use our employed staff team; we do not use agency staff. This is to ensure consistency and familiar faces to our children. Our baby room staff have specific baby training and under two’s training. We have two practitioners that have attended the forest school training and our Hedgerow staff have also completed woodwork training for this activity to be safely offered to the children. Staff members have taken part in a speak and sign course delivered by our Area SENCO to support various children within the setting. We have an early year’s teacher and two other practitioners whom have been based within a school setting previously, in our Hedgerow Room to ensure the children are supported and prepared for school under their guidance and knowledge.
We have core training for all staff such as Paediatric first aid, Safeguarding, food hygiene, FGM and Prevent Duty. However, during regular supervisions with staff we talk about their emotional wellbeing, workload, children’s development and action points for the term ahead etc, we discuss if there are any training courses they would like to attend. Staff also have regular access to local authority training and in-house training. We have an open-door policy to parents, carers, staff and children and they all know they can come and talk to the office staff whenever they need to.
We have designated staff for additional roles such as;
1) Designated Safeguarding Lead: Stephanie (Manager) Deputy Lead: Melissa (Deputy Manager)
2) SENCO: Stephanie (Manager) and Melissa (Deputy Manager)
3) Health and Safety named person: Camilla (Director)
We like to pride ourselves on how effectively we multi-agency work with various professionals and teams. This includes the health visitor team, Speech and language team, Portage and many others. During our experiences we have built up some fantastic working relationships which have helped to support children and their parents indefinitely.
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Do you follow policies and procedures?
Do you use daily diaries?
This is why we use Connect Childcare. This allows us to have the ability to upload your child’s daily diary alongside observations and assessments, and also it uses parentzone where it allows you to view these on an app on your phone / ipad etc. It also allows you to upload information / pictures / videos from home to allow the partnership working which is such a vital part of children’s development.
How do you track my child’s development?
We continuously offer home learning ideas to continue your child’s learning and development at home based on interests within the setting. Termly we complete an assessment to see what where your child is within their whole development and have a parents evening to discuss what we will be working on for your child’s development for the term ahead.
How do you support children and parents/ carers wellbeing and during transitions?
We understand the transition to nursery can be hard and like to try to ease any uncertainties as much as possible. We build strong relationships with parents straight away and like to get to know the children, their families, likes and dislikes, medical and dietary needs to build up a whole picture of the child. Every child has a key worker and they take ownership of your child’s learning journey, observations and assessments. However, all staff get to know the children and spend time completing observations etc. Each keyworker also attends to their own key children’s nappies and toileting needs as this ensures this specific routine is personal to your child.
We also slowly build up the transitions to the next rooms, supported by their key worker, as and when the child and yourselves feel they are ready. We support this with a transition poster and work closely with the staff in the next room. Our nursery is one big family and yourselves and your child we become familiar with all the staff members who work in each room which in turn makes most transitions smooth!
When it nears to your child starting school, we work very closely with the schools and encourage their teachers to come out to visit them within the setting. We have school uniform for your child to explore through dressing up and build it up slowly during the Summer before starting in September. If your child attends another setting including a childminder, we provide a dual setting communication book to allow all parties involved with your child to communicate regularly for the best interests of your child.
What will I need to bring?
Your child may need a few extra things during the day at nursery and often parents bring bags which they place on their child’s named peg. In this bag please bring a couple of spare clothes, as we do encourage the children to be actively involved and hands on in various activities. This is how they learn, but it often means they get a little messy and need a change of clothing.
Please provide nappies if your child is using these. We as a setting provide wet wipes, depending on if your child has sensitive skin to these. We also provide a fridge in our Meadow Room (0-2’s) so if you wish to provide breast milk, we can store it in there. We also have a milk cupboard for us to store your formula milk and bottles for your little one.
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How do I access funding, vouchers etc, for my child?
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