Hugo and Holly Day Nursery

Philosophy: The nursery follows the Reggio Emilia educational approach.

Activities: Children show their curiosity about the world in this vibrant and supportive nursery.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff help children to achieve highly from their starting points. They swiftly identify any additional support that children may need. This helps children to think about their emotions and supports their well-being.

Communication: Children's achievements and successes are shared regularly with parents through daily feedback, as well as more formal meetings to share children's progress and milestones.

Programs and Resources: Staff who support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are experienced and effective.

Staff Training: They work closely with families. Children receive the right external support. Consequently, children with SEND are excellently supported.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: This motivates staff, who say they love to work at the nursery. Staff comment that the setting feels like a family, and that they are happy and fulfilled.

Safeguarding Training: Staff are well trained to be alert to the signs that young children might be at risk from harm.

Play and Learning Integration: Staff create an environment for talking as they comment, discuss and enable children to become more confident communicators.

Transition to Primary School: Staff help children to learn, use and recall new knowledge. Presently, a strong focus of the pre-school curriculum is on the sharing of feelings.

Diversity Management: Toddlers learn about diversity when they listen to a story about difference.

Child Safety Management: Managers ensure that all the necessary checks are made on staff to ensure that they are suitable to work with children.

Children's Safety and Security: Staff discuss how each child is getting on. These meetings provide an opportunity for them to raise any concerns about a child's welfare.

Teaching Personal Safety: They know about whistle-blowing and would follow up to ensure that any concerns are acted upon.

Happiness and Settling: Children are encouraged to engage in age-appropriate risk taking, enabling them to understand how to keep themselves safe.