Our Aim
We aim to provide a well-ordered, safe, stimulating and happy environment in which the children are encouraged through a variety of activities to learn through play. We follow The Early Years Foundation Stage Principles in accordance with current government educational policy. Adhering to the following aspects:
1.  A Unique Child – every Child is a competent learner from birth who can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.
2.  Positive Relationships – children learn to be strong and independent from a base of a loving and secure relationships with parents and/or a key person.
3.   Enabling Environments – the environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning. 
4. Learning and Development – The early years foundation stage is made of seven equally important interconnected areas of learning and development. Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates and the seven areas together make up the skills, knowledge and experiences appropriate for children as they grow, learn and develop. The seven areas are:
•    Communication and language
•    Physical development
•    Personal, social and emotional development
•    Literacy
•    Mathematics
•    Understanding the world
•    Expressive arts and design

Child Protection
We promote children's right to be strong, resilient and listened to by creating an environment in our setting that encourages children to develop a positive self-image, which includes their heritage arising from their colour and ethnicity, their languages spoken at home, their religious beliefs, cultural traditions and home background.
Early years settings are committed to providing quality provision based on equality of opportunity for all children and their families. All staff in our provision are committed to doing all they can to enable ‘looked after’ children in their care to achieve and reach their full potential.
In our setting, staff and managers can be said to have a ‘confidential relationship’ with families. It is our intention to respect the privacy of children and their parents and carers, while ensuring that they access high quality early years care and education in our setting. We aim to ensure that all parents and carers can share their information in the confidence that it will only be used to enhance the welfare of their children. We have record keeping systems in place that meet legal requirements; the means that we use to store and share that information takes place within the framework of the Data Protection Act (1998) and the Human Rights Act (1998).
We maintain the highest possible security of our premises to ensure that each child is safely cared for during their time with us.

Key Person
We operate a key person system, we believe that children settle best when they have a key person to relate to, who knows them and their parents well, and who can meet their individual needs. Research shows that a key person approach benefits the child, the parents, the staff and the setting by providing secure relationships in which children thrive, parents have confidence, our staff committed and the setting is a happy and dedicated place to attend or work in. 
We want children to feel safe, stimulated and happy in the setting and to feel secure and comfortable with our staff. We also want parents to have confidence in both their children's well-being and their role as active partners with our setting. We aim to make our setting a welcoming place where children settle quickly and easily because consideration has been given to the individual needs and circumstances of children and their families. 

Staffing & Ratios 
We provide a staffing ratio in line with the Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage to ensure that children have sufficient individual attention and to guarantee care and education of a high quality. Our staff are appropriately qualified and we carry out checks for enhanced criminal records and barred list checks through the Disclosure and Barring Service in accordance with statutory requirements.

Equal Opportunities
We are committed to ensuring that our service is fully inclusive in meeting the needs of all children.
We recognise that children and their families come from a wide range of backgrounds with individual needs, beliefs and values. They may grow up in family structures that include one or two parents of the same or different sex. Children may have close links or live with extended families of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins; while other children may be more removed from close kin, or may live with other relatives or foster carers. Some children come from families who experience social exclusion, severe hardship; discrimination and prejudice because of their ethnicity, disability and/or ability, the languages they speak, their religious or personal beliefs, their sexual orientation and marital status. Some individuals face discrimination linked to their gender and some women are discriminated against because of their pregnancy and maternity status. We understand that all these factors can affect the well-being of children within these families and may adversely impact on children’s learning, attainment and life outcomes.
We are committed to anti-discriminatory practice to promote equality of opportunity and valuing diversity for all children and families using our setting

​Policies & Procedures
Full details of all our Policies and Procedures are available for parents to view at all times in the Entrance Hall to the Pre-School and we would encourage parents to thoroughly read through these Policies.