E.Y.F.S. stands for Early Years Foundation Stage. The EYFS is a curriculum set up by the Government that states how we as early years practitioners do things. The EYFS is split into 7 areas in total.

3 prime areas: Communication, Personal social and emotional, Physical

And 4 specific areas: Maths, Understanding the world, Literacy, Expressive art and design

Within these areas we must ensure children are making progress in each area.

We open from 8:30 am until 3:30 pm.  Our morning session runs from 8:30 am until 11:30 am and our afternoon session runs from 12.:30 pm until 3:30 pm

We take children from 2 years - 4 years old. After which time children need to apply for a school place through the government website.

No. We are a term time only school nursery and we close for the school holidays. 

We have snack available to the children on arrival, which is fruit, bagels and a drink of milk. Our lunch is served from 11.15am for our 30 hours children which is a hot meal - this is charged at £1.75 per day. Children can bring a packed lunch if this is preferred. Copies of full menus are available.

Yes we are very flexible with meals and you can choose to supply your own meals, have our meals or any mixture of both options.

Change of clothing (including underwear), nappies and wipes, water bottle with name on, sun hat, wellies, woolly hat, scarf, coat (weather dependent)

We ask that you apply sun lotion before the session, which is a factor 50 plus. If your child attends nursery all day we will reapply your sunscreen for them at lunchtime. Please label this and send in their school bag. 

No. We do not offer paid sessions - only the government funded hours of entitlement. 

This is not a problem although please inform us as soon as possible. A password system will be set up if we have not met the person before.

The child’s key person (the room leader) will keep an up to date record on your child’s progress they will share this information with you regularly using our online home communication system called Dojo. We will hold parent evenings to discuss your child’s progress. 

We understand this can happen as some things are out of our control such as traffic or appointments running over. We ask for you to let us know if this is going to happen as soon as you are aware. It is not a problem once or twice but if this becomes regular you will be charged for any extra hours. 

No unfortunately at nursery we have a strict policy on exclusion periods. For sickness and diarrhoea children must be away from nursery for 48 hours after last symptom.

Yes we strive to help in all areas of your child’s development we take this at your child’s pace. We follow your routine from home as close as possible and keep you in touch at every step. We use sticker/ reward charts to help in this area.

We have quiet sleep areas within each area of nursery depending on the children’s needs. We always assist in helping your child to take sleep and rest if needed. Each child is provided with their own sheet and blanket which is washed on a weekly basis. We would ask you to sign the home school sleep agreement before the children start with us. If you would rather your child not sleep, you can make this preference, and we would contact you if seeming unwell.

Accidents do happen at nursery but of course we try our best to prevent them. If your child has an accident we will let you know upon collection or beforehand depending on the severity of the accident.  We will fill in an accident form to outline the incident (causes, treatments, outcomes etc). We will provide any first aid needed (all staff members are first aid trained). For any bigger incidents that we cannot deal with we will consult professional advice through 999 or 101. We will keep you up to date throughout this process by call, text or face to face. We fill out paperwork to log all accidents this in turn helps us avoid accidents in the future.

We play outside at least once every day throughout all ages of the nursery. The only time we will not is if weather is terrible all day and we feel the children are not going to gain anything positive from the experience. We use the outside area for many different activities including bikes, scooters, team games, role play, sand pit, physical challenges, free play, water play. Outside is an extension to our provision and still offers lots of learning experiences.

We ensure that at least one person in each nursery room of our team holds a valid paediatric first aid certificate. Where possible all staff are given this training. 

Yes all members of staff full time, part-time, volunteers, students hold a current DBS check that is carried out prior to the member of staff starting with us. Staff members also sign up to the update service which keeps this check up to date at all times and this allows us to check each member of staff’s DBS check to ensure no new information is received (cautions or arrests). Any people visiting nursery to deliver extracurricular activities, such as Little Giggles and Mini Kickers, also have to have a DBS check.