Childcare Provider Fleetwood
Settling In
STARTING YOUR CHILD AT OUR NURSERY
Starting your child at nursery is a big change in a baby or child’s life, as well as a parent, so we want to make that transition as easy as possible for you.
To make the transition from home to Little Treasures as enjoyable and stress free as possible, our Nursery Manager will arrange an appointment with you before your child is due to start to discuss and agree a personalised plan for your child’s learning and welfare, and to also better understand how we can support your child.
Each child is unique and the amount of time that a child takes to settle into nursery can vary enormously. Therefore, children will be given time to settle in at their own pace, so as to make them feel welcome, safe and confident in a new environment.
Our settling in sessions allow your child to develop relationships with our staff and other children in their room, and also provide an opportunity for parents to discuss individual needs and routines with the key person.
Key Person
Helping to develop positive relationships
A key person is a named member of staff assigned to an individual child to support their development and act as the key point of contact with that child’s parents or carers. The key person system helps build and develop positive relationships with children and between parents, carers and staff.
Parent Partnership
At Little Treasures we believe that parents and practitioners working together in partnership is the best way to make sure your child’s nursery care and early learning meets his or her individual needs. We welcome parents as partners and support a two-way sharing of information which helps establish trust and understanding. We are committed to supporting parents in an open and sensitive manner to be an integral part of the care and early learning team within the nursery.
Help children to develop responsibility for themselves and their actions and to become competent, confident, independent and co-operative individuals.
Teach children to show respect for both themselves and other people and for kindness, tolerance, caring and good manners to be central to their behaviour.
Promote each child’s individual social, physical, moral and intellectual development.
Put the needs of the child first.
We aim to provide….
A happy, safe, warm and stimulating environment for all children to play, learn and develop freely.
A curriculum that is interesting, educational, stimulating and fun.
Accessibility to all children in the community
For Parents & Carers...
We will promote a positive relationship with parents & carers and work in partnership with them for the benefit of their children.
We will share with parents & carers their child’s achievements, experiences, progress and friendships, and also any difficulties.
We will listen and respond to parents’ and carers' views and concerns.
Our Policies
There are lots of policies we could share with you and, to us, each one plays an important part in the safe and effective running of Little Treasures.
However, we appreciate that not everyone finds policies quite as exciting as we do!
We have therefore selected the key policies and parent information that we feel will be most useful to families and made them available below.
All our other policies and procedures are available on request. If you would like to read a particular policy, we can provide you with a digital or printed copy.
Please speak to the Nursery Manager if you would like a copy of a policy, require it in a different format or need help accessing any of the documents below.
FAQs
Our fees are all inclusive. We provide breakfast, lunch and high tea, water and milk.
NB – supplement meal charges apply for people utilising the Government 15/30 funding
Yes – we have an outdoor shelter for you to store buggies.
We encourage children to play outside in all weathers and they have regular opportunities to access outdoors. Therefore, we ask that you to provide wellies and a waterproof coat or weather appropriate clothing.
A named bag to contain a spare change of clothes.
Your child’s comforter/dummy etc if he or she has one.
A drinking bottle with your child’s name written clearly on it
Nappies & wipes (if applicable)
Sunhat & sun cream (Spring/Summer months only)
Prior to your child’s start date, our Nursery Manager will contact you to arrange settling in sessions before your child starts attending. All children are different and the amount of time that a child takes to settle into nursery can vary enormously. Therefore, children will be given time to settle in at their own pace, so as to make them feel welcome, safe and confident in a new environment.
Every room has a lead senior practitioner with a minimum level 3 qualification. The majority of the team are Level 3 qualified, right up to and including degree level. Any staff who are at Level 2 progress onto a Level 3 qualification as soon as possible. Every staff member is paediatric first aid trained. All our staff regularly attend in-house and external courses, to ensure they are kept up to date with their knowledge and maintain the highest professional standards.
Yes, all our staff have been DBS checked. We also request a minimum of two references from their previous employers before commencing their employment with us.
If your child becomes ill at nursery, his or her condition will be immediately brought to the attention of the manager or a senior member of staff. Symptoms, including any visible signs and body temperature will be closely checked and monitored, and you will be immediately informed. We will discuss with you how best to deal with the matter, including whether you will need to collect your child from the nursery.
We recognise that it can be frustrating when a child is excluded but it is important to bear in mind that the exclusion is for the benefit of all children in the nursery. Little Treasures Nursery adhere to the Department of Health guidelines regarding incubation periods and exclusions.
At the end of each day, parents of babies will receive a daily update which details the child’s day, the activities they have participated in, how much food/milk they have consumed, any sleeps they have had and also nappy changes.
When your child progresses to the older age groups, staff will discuss your child’s day with you at collection. In addition to this, a daily diary will be communicated via our Nursery App with details of meals consumed and any sleep times etc. This enables parents to check how their child has eaten during busy collection times.
Your child’s progress will also be recorded in their online Learning Journey. This will include items from their activities, photographs and observations. We encourage parents to add items to the online Learning Journey too. Parent review meetings will be held regularly throughout the year.
We have a bank of reliable practitioners who are able to cover when a regular practitioner is ill.
The Nursery door is locked at all times. Only people who are pre-authorised by parents can collect children from our Nursery (collection authorisation forms have to be filled in and signed) and no one is allowed access to the building without being acknowledged by a member of staff.
No – we do not charge parents for Bank Holidays or Christmas closure because the nursery is closed on these days.
Yes – you do still have to pay while you are on holiday to preserve your child’s place at nursery
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) are the statutory curriculum guidelines for all early years providers. The EYFS provides guidance and support for childcare providers on meeting the overall emotional, physical and developmental needs of all children.
We value our relationships with parents and believe that it is very important to establish good parent partnerships. We regularly update our website to communicate useful information to parents, we send out regular newsletters and correspondence via our Nursery App and we display notices with details of any special events or activities that are taking place at nursery.
Should you have a problem, however big or small, your child’s key person and/or nursery manager will always be available to talk to.
No child will ever be left distressed at any time. A few tears on separation from a parent can easily be overcome but if a child became very distressed, and staff were unable to comfort or distract them, then parents would of course be contacted.
We recommend your child attends a minimum of 2 sessions a week. However, we understand that parents and children have different needs.
We invite parents and carers to fully participate in this important time in their child’s education. You are very welcome to come in and help during sessions and perhaps you have a skill you would like to share with the children….
