Welcome to Little Angels Nursery

EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION STAGE

 

At Little Angels, we work with the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. Using this framework, we are able to plan and provide a wide range of child and adult led play which helps children to make steady progress in all areas of development.

 

PRIME AREAS OF LEARNING: 

• Communication and language

• Physical development

• Personal, social and emotional development

 

SPECIFIC AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT:

• Literacy

• Mathematics

• Understanding the world

• Expressive arts and design

 

We are mindful that each child is unique and through positive relationships and enabling environments, children will learn and develop. 

Little Angels Preschool Nursery Admissions & Settling in Policy

Statement of Intent

It is our intention to make our preschool nursery accessible to children and families from all sections of the local community. We are committed to being as inclusive as possible regarding our admissions for our preschool nursery.  This policy outlines our approach to preschool admissions, our admissions criteria, and our plans for offering funded childcare in a sustainable and inclusive manner.

Aim

To ensure that Little Angels Preschool Nursery is accessible to all sections of the community, through open, fair, and clearly communicated procedures. To promote smooth and stress-free transitions to the setting, ensuring both children and parents/carers are happy.

 We care for children between the ages of 15 months and four years of age, and the numbers and ages of children admitted to the preschool Nursery comply with the legal space requirements set out in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). When considering admissions, we are mindful of staff: child ratios and the facilities available at the preschool. We are registered with Ofsted. We do not require children to be toilet trained on admission.

Accessibility

Little Angels Preschool Nursery aims to ensure its services are accessible to all sections of the community as per the Equal Opportunities Policy. The setting will attempt to communicate its services in locations throughout the community, in more than one language as appropriate.

The preschool Nursery exists to provide resources, facilities, and expertise locally to meet the needs of people in the surrounding area.

The preschool Nursery advertises through the Childcare Information center, our face book page and website

The preschool welcomes both fathers and mothers, other relations, and carers, including childminders.

We describe our preschool Nursery and its practices in terms of how it treats individuals, regardless of their gender, special educational needs, disabilities, background, religion, ethnicity, or competence in Spoken English.

Our owner takes responsibility for meeting with new families ensuring they have the correct information regarding the Pre-school and gathering information on the child.

Offering Places, funding and fees.

Fully funded sessions may be available for two, three and four-year old’s, subject to eligibility and the availability of sessions and staffing arrangements. We are flexible to the parents needs so there are no set sessions, we just ask a minimum of 2 hours attendance per day, between the hours of 8.00am and 3.00pm term time, we are open to stretching 30 hours funding for working parents into the holiday club, this can be discussed on an individual basis. Our holiday club is 1 week at Christmas, 1 week at Easter and 4 weeks in the summer we close all half terms, 1 week at Christmas, 2 weeks Easter and 2 weeks summer.  

All funded sessions are in line with the flexible arrangement as specified by the Government. When you register your child for their funded place, we will discuss your needs and, as far as possible with availability and staffing arrangements, we will accommodate your wishes.

We strongly believe that all children should have fair and equal access to snacks and activities, and we therefore do not charge any top-up fees or registration fees, or consumables, any extra hours above the government funded will be £6.00 per hour.

Prior to a child attending our preschool Nursery, parents must complete and sign a contract and registration form. These forms provide the preschool with personal details relating to the child. For example, name, date of birth, address, emergency contact details, parental responsibilities, dietary requirements, collection arrangements, fees, and sessions, contact details for parents, doctor’s contact details, health visitor contact details, allergies, parental consent, and vaccinations etc.

Children leaving for school in the July/August of their academic school year to start in September will not be permitted to stay back at the preschool beyond this time as we do not have the capacity to keep any children beyond this, exceptional circumstances will be considered.

Settling in

Once a place has been offered each child is assigned an Early Years Educator as a key person. The manager will take responsibility for contacting families and arranging appropriate settling in sessions (stay & play). The first two of these sessions allows for parents to stay with their child to allow their child an informal introduction to the preschool nursery and for parents and key persons to have time to communicate about specific needs and personalities. An ‘All About Me Page ’ will be requested to fill in on the childs personal e journal Tapestry, any additional needs will be discussed and a care plan filled in.

Subsequent settling in sessions will be organised to meet the needs of the specific child, this process usually takes up to 2 weeks, but it is important that child, parent, and preschool nursery are happy before a child attends their full sessions. Key workers keep records of children’s progress during this period.

The settling process is viewed as an essential part of ensuring children have a positive time at preschool nursery and we will be flexible in extending this period and offering families additional support.

Early Years Education Funding (EYEF)

Little Angels Preschool nursery is in receipt of EYEF for 3- and 4-year-olds. All 3- and 4-year-olds are entitled to the Universal 15 funded hours during term time; this is available from the term following your child’s third birthday. You can take up to 570 hours free funded childcare within the hours of 8.00am and 3.00pm

Some families of 2-year-olds may be entitled to Early Education funding, you must make the Pre-School aware of this when submitting an application to Join

To access this funding, you need to complete a EYEF form and show your child’s birth certificate to the setting manager and produce a code or voucher you could of received.

30 Hour Funded / Stretched Offer Agreement:

Including the holiday club little Angels is open 44 weeks of the year. The Pre-School nursery can offer 30 funded hours or up to 30 hours a week, we can also stretch this offer of funded childcare over the 44 weeks a year, this can be discussed with the owner.

Each child’s maximum free entitlement for both the ‘Universal’ and the ‘Extended’ offer will be the same, 570 hours per year universal hours and 570 extended hours, totalling 1140 hours.

To see what you are entitled to visit childcare choices.gov.uk, you will receive a 10-digit code to give to me, this must be submitted before the term starts, once the term starts and you haven’t submitted your details and produced a ten-digit code this will result in your child only receiving the 30 hours the following term.

4 weeks’ notice must be given when leaving the setting term time, funding will be claimed for this period whether the child attends or not in the notice period.