Sharing Information

Monthly Newsletter

All of the team contribute to a newsletter for parents. This contains information about what has been happening, what is planned for the near future, recipes and information about any new legislation.

Parents Information

We have plenty of information about The Early Years Foundation Stage and what it means. The key points are on the office door and includes opinions about our nursery from parents, children, staff and other agencies.

There are is also important posters and notices displayed throughout the nursery giving links to OfSTED and Child Protection Services.

Who is who?

We have a photo display board in our entrance hallway so that you can easily identify our staff team. There is also a photo display board outside each of the playrooms so that the children know which room they belong in and who their key person is.

Suggestions and Comments

Parents are encouraged to tell us what they like, dislike or suggest for our nursery. We take all feedback seriously and immediately address any important issues.

Informal Chats

When parents drop off their child a member of staff will be available to discuss how they are and any significant events that have happened at home. This could include a family member who may be visiting or if he/she has slept badly or feeling a little unwell.

Somebody will also be available at the end of the day to feedback to you how he or she has eaten, describe their experiences, who they have played with and share any significant developments or anecdotes.

Family Events

From time to time we may offer family events such as Christmas story time. Information will be given to everyone when an event is organised.

Shared Learning

We usually have a ‘project’ to share with parents and these can take many forms. We are constantly trying to improve our service and facilites so that children have increasingly more positive expereinces. Projects we have undertaken in the past have been the Nippers Nutrition Programme, Forest School, the Story Sack library and Singing and Signing.

We recently had an emphasis on developing children’s communication and language skills whereby we provided information to parents on how language develops, introduced a music genre of the week and reduced children’s use of dummies by having a dummy fairy look after all the dummies during the day. This was very successful and several parents used a similar idea at home. We additionally started a book borrowing service to encourage shared book reading opportunites at home. Children of all ages love sharing books, it is a fantastic language rich experience as well as providing quality bonding time.