Policies & Procedures
Contents
- Our Vision
- Recruitment and retention
- Dummy policy
- Compliance Enhancement Programme
- Mobile phone and social networking policy
- Personal Hygiene and toilet policy
- The Early Years Foundation Stage
- Admissions and settling in policy
- Potty training policy
- Ownership and Management details
- Parental Involvement
- Intimate care policy
- Parent's complaints policy
- Key person policy
- Monitoring children at sleep times
- Confidentiality policy
- Two year old progress check
- Head lice policy
- Safeguarding and promoting children's welfare
- Childcare places for staff
- Medication, Illness and caring for sick children
- Dealing with suspicions
- Behaviour Management policy
- Manual handling policy
- Dealing with disclosure
- Inclusion policy
- Sun protection policy
- Responding to suspicions or disclosure
- The role of the Sendco
- Outings policy
- Managing allegations
- Equal Opportunities
- Nursery pets
- Collection procedures
- English as an Additional Language
- Display policy
- Failure to collect policy
- Health and Hygiene
- Work experience policy
- Entrance to the Nursery
- Risk Assessment
- Snow policy
- Missing child policy
- Healthy Eating and Food policy
- Terms and conditions- Payment of nursery fees
- Staffing
- Weaning
- Data Protection Policy GDPR Privacy Notice
Our Vision
Our aim is to provide a caring, safe and stimulating environment that children enjoy and learn from, parents trust and feel involved in and where staff are respected for their professional commitment.
We work hard to ensure that children have the best possible learning experiences and leave each day happy, secure and confident individuals who are well prepared for future learning.
Compliance Enhancement Programme
The following policies and procedures demonstrate how we meet the requirements defined in the statutory framework for the EYFS.
All policies and procedures are located at each setting. These are shared with staff, parents, students and visitors of the nurseries during visits, induction and open events.
All staff are provided with a copy of the policies and procedures and they are regularly reviewed and monitored during Senior Management Team meetings, and at staff meetings.
As part of our Compliance Enhancement Programme, staff and parents will be asked to make suggestions which will then be formally reviewed at the Senior Management Team Meetings.
The Early Years Foundation Stage
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework is a set of standards which all early years providers must meet to make sure children are given the optimum opportunity to progress and develop, in a safe and healthy environment.
The EYFS is mandatory for all schools and Early Years providers in Ofsted Registered settings attended by children from birth to the end of the academic year in which a child has their fifth birthday.
Published 31 March 2014 Last updated 4 January 2024
Changes to the EYFS framework became law in January 2024.
We are inspected by Ofsted to determine the quality of the provision. Early years inspection handbook for Ofsted-registered provision - GOV.UK
The framework itself comprises of a package of materials which include:
- Learning and development requirements.
- Assessment.
- Safeguarding and welfare requirements.
- The four themes of the Revised EYFS are; A Unique Child, Positive Relationships, Enabling Environments and Learning and Development. The themes and principles describe the features of practice on which the EYFS is based.
These themes are supported by the practice guidance which provides nursery staff with practical examples of how they can be implemented within day to day nursery life, taking into account the characteristics of effective learning.
Ultimately the Early Years Foundation Stage sets the standard for education and care for all early years’ providers ensuring that all children attending day care settings receive a rich, personalised experience that many parents give their children at home.
Children learn and develop through play based activities which are chosen by them and planned for based on their personal interests. Nursery staff can then observe children’s interactions and interests and use these observations to plan how they can support and extend the child’s learning and understanding and review these observations using the ‘development matters’ guidance to identify appropriate next steps to support each child’s development.
Activities are planned to provide each individual child with opportunities to learn through playing and exploring, creating and thinking critically, and active learning. These are referred to as the Characteristics of Effective Learning.
Each nursery has its own curriculum- Intentions for the children’s learning throughout the nursery.
When activities are planned, the intent, implementation and impact are considered by staff. This means what we intend the children to learn or be able to do, how we support this and how effective it is on children’s learning.
The activities and observations are recorded on the Famly newsfeed and in each child’s Journey on Famly through photographs, observations, and other precious moments that are captured during the child’s time spent in our care. Parents can contribute to their child’s Journey with pictures and observations of their own . Nursery staff will also make suggestions on Famly observations of ways parents can support their children’s learning at home.
We create profiles for all children attending the nursery on Famly which parents can access.
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