
What we offer
Birth - 10 year olds
Our aim is to provide a reliable, caring & secure setting where children can have fun whilst learning and developing through a carefully balanced combination of adult lead and child initiated play. Parents can be confident their child will be in an enabling environment where they will have experiences that relate to their individual needs/interests and that we promote equality of opportunity having an anti-discriminatory practice, ensuring that every child is included and supported.
We regularly take the children out meeting with other childminders and children at local play groups, soft play, messy play, music groups, the parks, farms & other planned days out for the children to socialise & make sense of the world around them. We organise Christmas parties, Summer sports day etc The children get involved & promotes considering the needs of others especially around the times for fund raising for comic relief, children in need, Bernardo's big toddle etc
We offer care Term time only, all year around, full day, half days, temporary care & Before and After school.
We offering funded places for 2 & 3/4year olds giving 15 hours or 30 hours care.
Schools and nurseries covered:
Ingleby Mill Primary School & Nursery
Barleyfields Primary School & Nursery
Eyfs
Early Years Foundation Stage for children from birth to 5 years-
We offer a foundation for learning considering the interests, age and abilites of each child offering purposeful activities both planned & also building on child initiated play to aid the development of skills, self confidence and independant that are the targets set in the early years goalsof EYFS and so 'school readiness' is achieved.
The 7 area's of development being split into 2 groups:
Prime (main focus up to around 2-3 years)
-physical
-communication and language
-personal, socail & emotional
Specific
-understanding the world
-expressive arts & design
-literacy
-mathematics
We carefully plan activities around the childrens next steps considering the age and stage of each child to develop their skills utilising day to day routines, crafts, outdoor play, socailising incorporating their interests.
Availability
Open hours Monday-Friday 7:30 -17:30, extended / flexible hours maybe available on request.