ABOUT ME
Our childminding setting truly encapsulates the best of both worlds when it comes to childcare, bringing together the best attributes from a nursery setting into a home setting. We have a team of highly skilled experienced staff who have dedicated their working life to childcare with a combined over 60 years in the early years.
We offer a very personal service to ensure every child feels seen, secure and confident giving them the best start to life.
From the very beginning meeting the childrens' needs has been our ultimate priority for example in our early years it became apparent that our learning space wasn't sufficient for both crawlers and walking children to be together, we made plans to build a separate garden room especially adapted for our babies so that they could have their own safe space to explore freely. There is foam flooring, soft play, ball pools etc and it is now the perfect environment for our little ones. The original room was then updated to meet the needs of the 'older children'. Over the 4 years we have made many changes incorporating ideas from the Curiosity Approach, Montessori demonstrating our commitment to improve.
Each childs' learning and development is tracked on our app, here we share photographs, observation with our parents linking them to the EYFS and detailing how we can assist them in fulfilling their next steps, we hold a key worker system. This is based on the childs choice as the children to begin to settle in we observe who they naturally gravitate towards and ultimately their key worker is selected.
Innovation is our speciality we consistently provide new and innovative invitations to play, our highly engaging invitations to play have been recognised by a large early years resource company on Instagram, which means we have been privileged to obtain some amazing resources for the children free of charge in the exchange that we continue to share our work and include them.
Over the last4 years we have made many changes incorporating ideas from the Curiosity Approach, Montessori demonstrating our commitment to improve.
Each childs' learning and development is tracked on our app, here we share photographs, observation with our parents linking them to the EYFS and detailing how we can assist them in fulfilling their next steps, we hold a key worker system. This is based on the childs choice as the children to begin to settle in we observe who they naturally gravitate towards and ultimately their key worker is selected.
Innovation is our speciality we consistently provide new and innovative invitations to play, our highly engaging invitations to play have been recognised by a large early years resource company on Instagram, which means we have been privileged to obtain some amazing resources for the children free of charge in the exchange that we continue to share our work and include them.
BABIES
We understand the apprehension that some parents may have when their baby or toddler starts nursery. Our team of dedicated staff will continue to follow home routines within the nursery, providing a consistency of care that ensures your child feels happy and secure. The information in your ‘All About Me’ form is essential is assisting us care for your child as an individual. For our under ones, we complete a daily communication diary that informs you of everything your child has done throughout the day.
The Baby Room is set up in a way to make them feel homely and comforting to your child. The environment and resource provided by staff focus strongly on imaginative, exploratory, investigatory and sensory play experiences which are regularly rotated to keep your child stimulated.
Listening to stories and nursery rhymes in our cosy quiet area and exploring books independently, Singing and playing musical instruments.
At The Playroom we place high importance on physical development, a soft play area has been provided to encourage tumbling and rolling and we are very fortunate to have a vast outdoor play area with artificial grass which allows children to explore the outside world. We feel it is important to keep children physically active and being outdoors as much as weather permits.
We have sensory and heuristic treasure baskets available for our babies to explore these contain natural and manufactured resources that support and develop children’s investigative and exhortatory skills. During the day staff also interact with children through messy play using malleable materials sand, water, foam and gloop for further sensory exploration.
Each child is assigned a key worker who is responsible for your child’s basic and emotional needs and is responsible for supporting your child’s development with regular observations and assessments. The relationship between the key person, yourself and your child begins when you attend the setting on a number of introductory visits, this helps with the initial bond with the keyworker and supports your child to settle and feel calm and comfortable whilst in their room.