Camelot Kids

Philosophy: Environment is carefully planned to encourage conversation and independent exploration through activities that spark curiosity and interest.

Activities: Wide range of activities that greatly expand children's experiences and opportunities for learning, learning about the world around them as they go on outings or shopping trips.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children are well prepared for school, they grow their own vegetables and talk about healthy food groups.

Communication: Partnership with parents is a real strength; manager and staff consistently give parents advice.

Community Building: Staff send home 'chef bags' containing new ideas for meals to cook at home with children; parents say their children have more confidence and talk more since attending.

Programs and Resources: Children who need additional support are identified quickly; they use additional funding to give carefully targeted support for disadvantaged children.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Attentive staff who accept children's differences and value each child as an individual; staff benefit from very good, on-going opportunities to develop their skills.

Safeguarding Training: Staff attend training to keep their knowledge of safeguarding and first aid up to date.

Play and Learning Integration: Children make strong connections between learning as they play, developing secure social skills and independence.

Transition to Primary School: Children are well prepared for school.

Child Safety Management: Safe recruitment processes are used to help assure staff suitability; emergency evacuation practiced by children and staff.

Children's Safety and Security: Babies form trusting relationships with attentive staff and show they feel safe.

Teaching Personal Safety: Children know how to avoid germs by handwashing.

Happiness and Settling: Children make friends and quickly become part of the nursery 'family', showing they feel safe and happy.

Nutritional Menu: Children regularly learn to cook food that they then eat for lunch or tea.