Dockside Day Nursery & Pre-School

Activities: Toddlers expertly use scissors during art and craft activities.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and English as an additional language make exceptional progress. Children learn key skills needed for their next stages in learning, such as school.

Communication: Highly effective partnerships with parents and professionals allow for great consistency in each child's learning and development.

Programs and Resources: All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities make exceptional progress.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff care so much about the children and strive to make a difference.

Safeguarding Training: The DSL and all staff have a secure knowledge of the process to follow to refer any safeguarding concerns in line with local procedures.

Play and Learning Integration: Staff provide excellent opportunities for children to learn about the world around them.

Transition to Primary School: Children learn key skills needed for their next stages in learning, such as school.

Diversity Management: Children have wonderful opportunities to learn about different cultures to their own.

Child Safety Management: Extensive risk assessments are in place to ensure children remain safe during riskier play and staff support children to identify hazards and be aware of how to keep themselves and their friends safe.

Children's Safety and Security: Children arrive excitedly and quickly settle into their chosen play.

Happiness and Settling: Children hug each other, hold hands and invite each other into their games. This helps to develop their levels of self-esteem.