About Us

Your Role at the Nursery

All of our staff see themselves as partners with parents in providing care and education for their children. There are many ways in which you, as parents, can take part in making our setting a welcoming and stimulating place, such as:

  • Exchanging knowledge about your children’s needs, activities, interests and progress with our staff;
  • Contributing to the progress check at age two;
  • Helping out at sessions at the nursery;
  • Sharing your own special interests with the children;
  • Helping to provide and look after the equipment and materials used in the children’s play activities;
  • Being part of the management of the nursery where appropriate;
  • Taking part in events and informal discussions about the activities and curriculum provided by the nursery;
  • Joining in community activities, in which the nursery takes part; and
  • Building friendships with other parents in the setting.

 

Your Role at Home

You can help your child’s learning and development at home, here’s how:

  • Read stories daily to your child and use them as an opportunity to talk about the characters and events in the story. You could also discuss some of the details children have spotted in the pictures, such as the character’s facial expressions.
  • Have lots of conversations with your child throughout the day. Try and increase their vocabulary by using a wide range of vocabulary.
  • Practise counting with your child and looking at small groups of items. Explore what happens to numbers when you put these small groups of items together, or split a larger group into two smaller groups.
  • Support your child’s early reading by practising phonic skills, such as recognising letter sounds and blending them together to read words. Also, support your child with their writing by checking they are forming their letters in the correct way and holding a pencil properly.
  • Encourage your child to make healthy food and drink choices, especially related to sugar content and how this can affect teeth. Also, support your child to properly brush their teeth at least twice a day at home.
  • Plan activities that allow your child to be active and develop their strength through large body movements as well as smaller, more precise movements.

 

Your Rights

You are regarded as members of our setting who have full participatory rights. These include a right to be:

  • Valued and respected;
  • Kept informed;
  • Consulted;
  • Involved; and
  • Included at all levels.

As a voluntary managed setting, we also depend on the good will of parents and their involvement to keep going. Membership of the setting carries expectations on you for your support and commitment.