Support Learning
Through Early Years
At Ladybird Nursery we ensure the welfare of each and every child by providing a secure and safe environment where children are encouraged to be healthy and active learners. We place a strong emphasis on the health and safety of all children and staff and regularly audit our systems and processes. You will experience peaceof mind from placing your child with a company that accepts its responsibilities seriously and dutifully ensures that all employees are aware of their roles and accountability.
Monitoring & Development
Key Person
Each child will have a key person who will ensure that the children in their group experience a wide range of activities and experiences. Each key person works in partnership with you to ensure they learn from you as well as letting you know how your child is progressing. Each child will have a special book with examples of the activities they are doing, and the staff will talk to you, at any time, about how your child is doing. EYFS seeks to ensure that whichever nursery parents choose, they can be confident that their child will receive a quality experience that supports their development and learning. The EYFS principles that guide the work of all practitioners are grouped as follows:
A Unique Child
Recognises that every child is a competent learner from birth who can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured. The commitments are focused around development; inclusion; safety; and health and well-being.
Positive Relationships
Children learn to be strong and independent from a base of loving and secure relationships with parents and/or a key person.
Enabling Environments
The environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning.
Learning and Development
Recognises that children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates, and that all areas of learning and development are equally important and inter- connected. It is paramount that parents are involved at all stages of their child’s development at the nursery. It is a two-way dialogue to promote children’s well- being. Please help us to establish this relationship by contributing and getting involved as much as possible with our topics and activities.
Development
Here’s how we support and extend children’s learning in the early years.
1. Creative Development Being creative, responding to experiences, expressing & communicating ideas, exploring media & materials (2D & 3D representations), creating music and dance, developing imagination and imaginative play.
2. Personal, Social & Emotional Development Dispositions & Attitudes, Self- care, Making Relationships, Sense of Community, Self-confidence & self- esteem, Behaviour & self-control.
3. Communication, Language & Literacy Language for communication, Language for thinking, Linking sounds & letters, Reading and Writing.
4. Problem Solving, Reasoning & Numeracy Numbers as labels for counting,
calculating, shape, space & measures.
5. Knowledge & Understanding of the World Exploration & Investigation, Designing & Making, ICT, Time, Place and Communities
6. Physical Development Movement & Space, Health & Bodily Awareness,
Using Equipment and Materials
It is the policy of Ladybird Nursery to establish close links with parents in order to exchange information and involve parents in their child’s learning and development as parents are the children’s first and most long-term educators. When parents and practitioners work together creating a two-way flow of information, knowledge and expertise the results have a positive impact on the child’s development and learning. Partnerships between parents, children and members of staff are naturally built up whilst your child grows with us and we welcome your involvement at any time. Daily
Diary sheets, regular parent’s evenings, newsletters and progress reports keep you up to date with your child’s development and the nursery news.