Kilton Childcare

Activities: Staff plan activities linked to children's interests and experiences.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff support and build on children's independence, helping them to learn skills for the future.

Communication: Staff and parents regularly discuss how children are developing at home and nursery. Staff share photographs and observations of children's achievements and experiences with parents.

Programs and Resources: Staff complete observations and assessments of children's learning to ensure they identify gaps and seek advice and referrals to other professionals and agencies where necessary.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children are warmly greeted by caring and friendly staff. The manager implements thorough settling-in procedures to welcome children and families into the nursery.

Safeguarding Training: All staff have recently completed refresher training on sign language to help support children's communication and understanding.

Play and Learning Integration: Children use their small hand muscles as they roll and manipulate play dough, outside they scoop mud into cake tins, balance on beams, run and ride trikes.

Transition to Primary School: Staff have links with local schools to support children's transitions, having conversations and sharing developmental information with the teachers at the on-site school.

Child Safety Management: Staff implement clear expectations. For instance, they ask children to listen and concentrate as they explain a circle time activity. Children respectfully and patiently wait their turn as they play the game 'What's in the bag?' Staff help children to keep themselves and others safe.

Children's Safety and Security: Children are warmly greeted by caring and friendly staff. This enables children to form close attachments with staff through an effective key worker system and supports them to feel safe and secure.

Teaching Personal Safety: Staff remind children not to walk around with scissors and to sit down when eating. They also use pictures and songs to support children's understanding of how to wash their hands.

Happiness and Settling: Children are warmly greeted by caring and friendly staff, enabling them to feel safe and secure.

Nutritional Menu: Children benefit from healthy snacks and drinks provided by staff. Staff find out and carefully cater for children's dietary needs.