THE SETTING
We cover the seven areas of learning indoors and outside. Teaching the British values in everyday routine, we work together in teaching morals, respect for others, and self-respect ensuring every child’s life is enriched with positivity, making pre-school a happy, safe environment.
The children start the session all together while the Aunties talk about the theme of the week and what activities are available for the children to access. Then we go into our key groups where the children spend 15 minutes with their key person and their key group peers playing a game or taking part in an activity.
Now it’s time for free play and the children choose what they do and where they go, we have free-flow play indoors and outdoors and the staff are covering areas and delivering planned adult led activities. Our indoor and outdoor equipment is inclusive for every child at each stage of their development, making it a positive experience to ensure the foundation for further education.
We have a rolling snack table throughout the session where the children choose to go and serve themselves a healthy snack and drink when they want to.
We have whole group activities, the caterpillar children age 2 and 3 year old join in caterpillar corner time with singing, dancing and stories. The butterfly children who are in their pre-school year (aged 3- and 4-year-old) split into small groups for phonics, letters and sounds, think equal (personal. Social and emotional programme) and stories.
Home time or lunchtime for the children that stay and then we repeat the morning activities for the afternoon session.
GALLERY
KEY WORKER SYSTEM
We pride ourselves on providing every child with a keyworker each child is allocated a key Auntie where they will find out about your child’s individual needs, interests and learning development on your child’s settling in days, this allows the key worker to plan an adult led activity around the children’s interests, Within a small key group family, this gives children a sense of belonging and security to be able to form strong attachments ensuring the growth and development of each child.
Our online learning journey enables us to share observations of children, photographs and videos and an opportunity for parents to also share observations from home, achievements, days out etc.
SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive setting if your child has any special educational needs, we will be happy to discuss this with you and provide a plan of development to ensure the best for your child we have an experienced level 3 trained SENCO.
If we begin to spot signs and indicators of your child needing a bit of extra help, we will discuss this with you in an informal and sensitive manner, and if necessary, receive additional advice and support from other professionals.
As and when needed, we seek appropriate further SEND training for the staff team and continue to work closely with external agencies.
PARENT PARTNERSHIP
We feel as a setting we value parent partnership; we offer an open-door policy with a welcoming and friendly environment;
we aim to ensure that every parent feels welcomed.
We work hard to form good relationships with our families so that information regarding your child, be it developmental, social or health related, can be exchanged comfortably and confidentially.
We invite our parents and carers into pre-school throughout the year for a range of sessions e.g. stay and play, Halloween family party, parents evening, Graduation night etc.
