Our Philosophy
We follow a key principle of “play with a purpose”. This has been our philosophy since we opened nearly 30 years ago, and still stands strong today.
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We aim to provide all children with the best start, we know just how important the Early Years are.
Our leaders and practitioners have the knowledge and strategies to reduce barriers and make adaptations to support all of our children to achieve their full potential. ​​
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We believe that learning should be fun and exciting, and that children should come away from our setting confident in their own abilities and with strong foundations which allow then to access future learning opportunities.
We aim to create inspiring and engaging learning environments where children can flourish, and develop confidence and skills to last them a life-time.
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Parental and community engagement
We work closely with our parents and carer’s. We know that by working in partnership with one another, we can create the best education and care for our children.
We operate a key person system and share care practices and routines between nursery and home. This ensures that warm, positive relationships are effective in promoting children’s feelings of security.
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We use a variety of methods to communciate with our families. You can contact us via our nursery phone, whatsapp phone, through our educational app or by simply speaking to a member of staff at collection or drop off. ​
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Practitioners share information with parents and other agencies about children’s needs and progress, including the progress check at age 2. We support parents to extend their children’s learning at home by sending out relevant articles and signposting to various agencies and organisations.
We have a designated Positive Behaviour Officer and SENCO who offers support to our families and children.
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Our leaders work with other settings and organisations to develop early years practice that improves the quality and safety of education and care for all children. We have long standing professional relationships with the local schools and specialists within our areas.
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Our Team
We employ a team of highly skilled and qualified practitioners who have been carefully selected because of their kindness and commitment and dedication to our children.
We promote the on- going professsional development of our team through regular training and supervisions. Supervisions provide our practitioners with support, coaching, and training which in turn, promotes the interests of children.
Through regular upskilling and investment into staff training, we ensure the children who come to our nurseries recieve the high quality care and education they deserve.
Our nurseries are owned, led and managed by highly qualified leaders and managers who hold various childcare qualifications such as Masters degrees, PGCE's and Undergraduate Degrees.​​ We believe modelling ambition and high aspirations contributes to the high number of practitioners who have gone on to, and are in the process of completing further education qualifications within our nurseries.
The supportive and family environment within our nurseries also contributes to the high number of long standing staff members we have- some of whom have been with us since we opened nearly 30 years ago, and some of whom came to nursery as children themselves!
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