Lullabies Day Nursery

Communication: Parents receive daily communication from the nursery and termly information about their children's progress.

Community Building: Parents feel supported by the nursery and are regularly invited to 'parent forums' to help them support their children at home.

Programs and Resources: The nursery works closely with external agencies to ensure that all children make the progress expected of them for their age and stage of development.

Staff Training: Staff receive regular supervision meetings allowing them to discuss their professional development and their key children.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children are happy in this welcoming, nurturing environment. Staff quickly form strong bonds with children and their parents enabling them to feel safe and secure.

Safeguarding Training: Staff are fully trained and adhere to safeguarding policies and procedures. They attend regular safeguarding training to ensure that their knowledge is continually updated.

Play and Learning Integration: There are many opportunities for children to develop their small-muscle skills. Children enjoy filling containers with sand and flour using spades and spoons.

Diversity Management: Staff know children well and plan experiences around their individualised targets, as well as their interests.

Child Safety Management: Leaders and staff regularly carry out thorough risk assessments of the building to ensure its safety for children and staff.

Children's Safety and Security: Children are happy in this welcoming, nurturing environment. Staff quickly form strong bonds with children and their parents enabling them to feel safe and secure.

Teaching Personal Safety: Children are taught the importance of seeing a dentist to check their teeth are healthy. Staff teach children how to brush their teeth at nursery.

Happiness and Settling: Children behave well and staff remind them of behaviour expectations. Staff remind children about being kind to one another and using 'gentle hands' when playing with friends.

Nutritional Menu: Children enjoy learning about the importance of healthy eating as part of a healthy lifestyle. Staff encourage children to try the fruit and vegetables on offer using facial expressions to model the new vocabulary of 'sweet', 'sour', 'juicy' and 'crunchy'.