We will provide daily activities, which will encourage your child to develop new and existing skills. All activities are planned for the children.

Planning in the Baby room is based on Birth to Three Matters. Through using the guidelines provided by the Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership, staff will provide appropriate learning opportunities, which will promote becoming:

• A strong child
• A skilful communicator
• A competent learner
• A healthy child

Children aged 3 to 5 have planned activities based on the Foundation stage. The foundation stages outline the early learning goals and stepping stones, which should be completed by the time your child finishes their Reception year at school. We aim to provide opportunities, which will encourage your child to achieve these goals.

The 6 foundation stages are:

• Mathematics
• Creativity
• Knowledge and understanding of the world
• Communication, language and literacy
• Physical development
• Personal, social and emotional development.

Progress books, records and examples of your child's work is kept to show you how they are progressing in their development, which you are able to look at, at any time.

Some of our creations! Click to enlarge

We are very much aware of your need to feel that your child is being left in a secure environment, as parents ourselves we understand exactly how you feel, because of this we have several security policies in place.

As you enter the building we have a secure entry system, where any visitor will be identified before being allowed onto the premises. Therefore only allowing bona-fide persons on the premises at all times.

Part of our Nursery is open plan, which allows staff to call easily for assistance if necessary without leaving the children. The Babyroom is fitted with a call button for this same purpose.

During outside activities children will be fully supervised at all times, and during these activities the outside gate will be locked.

We also insist that anyone collecting your child other than yourself will have written permission from you and also use our 'safe' word system. This will be explained to you further as you register.

We offer a high level of personal presentation and professionalism. Quality care is our forte.

As parents ourselves we are fully aware that our children do not always behave as we would like them to, going through different stages and phases, which is all part of learning and growing up. With this in mind we promote the following guidelines to achieve good behaviour.

When a child behaves in an unacceptable way, for example, hitting or biting one of their peers, then we would take the child to one side and talk with them as to why this is not an acceptable way to behave. Where possible we would as the child to apologise for what they have done to help them further understand their behaviour. If this does not have the desired outcome we would then use a method called 'time-out' where the child would be taken to one side and given time to reflect on their behaviour, always accompanied by a member of staff.

If the behaviour were to persist we would contact yourselves in order to discuss steps we could both put in place to try to overcome the issue at home as well as in Nursery.