Shaftesbury Children Centre Nursery

Activities: Children use scavenger hunt sheets to tick off the bugs that they have spotted.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children learn about their emotions, how to regulate them and listen carefully to staff's instructions.

Communication: Staff kept in touch with the families of those children who did not attend, sending home ideas to support the children's learning and checking on the family's welfare.

Community Building: Partnerships with parents are extremely strong. Staff know parents well and provide support for them as well as their children to ensure the best outcomes for the whole family.

Programs and Resources: The special needs coordinator works very closely with staff to provide prompt, tailored support for children.

Staff Training: Staff are supported well to develop their skills and improve the provision for children. They promptly implement and share what they learn at training to ensure that the rest of the team also benefits from new knowledge and skills.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children have excellent relationships with staff, which helps them to feel safe and secure at the nursery.

Safeguarding Training: Staff refresh their training annually and discuss safeguarding matters at regular staff meetings, which keeps their knowledge up to date.

Play and Learning Integration: Older children help to cut up oranges and lemons to go in the water tray.

Transition to Primary School: Staff know children exceptionally well and provide excellent levels of support for them to move on to the next steps in their individual learning.

Child Safety Management: Staff use imaginative ways to help children learn about safety, like painting wooden spoons red to remind children not to touch certain plants.

Children's Safety and Security: Children have excellent relationships with staff, which helps them to feel safe and secure at the nursery.

Teaching Personal Safety: Children enjoy listening to a story about an alligator cleaning their teeth and talk knowledgeably about brushing their own teeth twice a day.

Happiness and Settling: Children arrive happily and thoroughly enjoy learning with support from the skilled and enthusiastic staff team.

Nutritional Menu: Staff have been working with parents to ensure that children have healthy lunch boxes.