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Townsend Barn Nursery
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Townsend Barn Nursery
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- Poulshot SN10 1SD
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| The quality of education | Outstanding |
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
| Overall effectiveness at previous inspection | Outstanding |
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Diverse Books and Toys: Children borrow books from the lending library to take home and read with their parents, which has been a successful achievement.
Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: Children excel in their speech, imagination and early literacy skills. They engage in the inspirational garden that supports them to exercise and explore nature through activities like building natural habitats and gardening.
Philosophy: The manager and staff are dedicated to promoting a curriculum that aspires for all children to become confident learners in all areas of development.
Activities: Staff support children to create their own play dough, explore natural habitats, and involve them in planting trees and gardening.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children develop a deep understanding of the world around them, enhance communication and language skills, and manage their own risks through supervised activities.
Communication: Parents feel extensively involved in their children's learning through the good-quality handovers, parents' evenings and the online learning app.
Community Building: Teachers from local schools visit those children who will be moving up to school to begin to build relationships with them and discuss their early years outcomes with each child's key person.
Programs and Resources: Children with SEND are continually included and encouraged to try new experiences. The setting's special educational needs coordinator works closely with each child, their key person, parents and outside agencies to ensure the children access the best possible support.
Staff Training: Staff ensure that children with SEND are continually included and encouraged to try new experiences. They fully support their needs by adapting activities extremely well.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: The highly qualified manager has implemented an inspirational curriculum and strives for high-quality early years education for all children. Staff build excellent relationships with their key children and families.
Safeguarding Training: All staff have up-to-date safeguarding training to support them in recognising areas of abuse and how to respond to a concern, including who to contact for further advice and support.
Play and Learning Integration: Children are confident in exploring the superb opportunities to investigate activities and manage their own risks to thoroughly develop their thinking.
Transition to Primary School: Children are extremely well prepared for school due to the excellent progress they have made in all areas of learning, particularly in their communication and language, independence skills and confidence.
Diversity Management: Children demonstrate exceptional behaviour. They are tremendously polite to adults and peers, and they respectfully sit alongside their peers at lunchtime as they delight in their hot meals and discuss the 'delicious' food. Staff address conflict exceptionally well, giving clear explanation and direction to support children's emotional well-being.
Child Safety Management: Management risk assesses the setting several times a day to highlight any potential hazards. Staff act to address risks when they see them throughout the day.
Children's Safety and Security: Children's safety is of paramount priority to all staff. They have up-to-date safeguarding training to support them in recognising areas of abuse and how to respond to a concern.
Teaching Personal Safety: Management risk assesses the setting several times a day to highlight any potential hazards. Staff act to address risks when they see them throughout the day.
Happiness and Settling: Children demonstrate exceptional behaviour. They are tremendously polite to adults and peers, and they respectfully sit alongside their peers at lunchtime as they delight in their hot meals and discuss the 'delicious' food.
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Townsend Barn Nursery is a Nursery, Nursery located in Wiltshire County, South West.
This nursery accepts children from 0-8 years old.
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Townsend Barn is aware of how crucial it is for you, as parents, to feel secure and at ease while entrusting us with your child's care.
You are welcome to speak with the manager or any staff member about any part of our education since we have an open door policy.
Your kid will be assigned a key person when they first enrol in the nursery who will serve as a special individual for them.
Additionally, they will collaborate closely with you, the parents, to create a care plan and they will provide you daily input on your child.
Outdoor play is crucial for children's health, development, and education, according to Townsend Barn Nursery.
The Nursery is located on lovely grounds with several different gardens and lots of fun areas to play and explore.
Children can practise tennis and other ball activities on our tennis court.
There is a playground just outside the classrooms where kids can choose to play outside, utilise the covered sandpit, or continue playing inside the all-weather shelter if it's raining.
All children in our care must be kept safe and supported by us as per our legal obligation.
Children are advised to dress in polo shirts from Townsend Barn Nursery.
The Wiltshire Council has given us a 5 Star certificate for food safety.
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You are welcome to speak with the manager or any staff member about any part of our education since we have an open door policy.
Your kid will be assigned a key person when they first enrol in the nursery who will serve as a special individual for them.
Additionally, they will collaborate closely with you, the parents, to create a care plan and they will provide you daily input on your child.
Outdoor play is crucial for children's health, development, and education, according to Townsend Barn Nursery.
The Nursery is located on lovely grounds with several different gardens and lots of fun areas to play and explore.
Children can practise tennis and other ball activities on our tennis court.
There is a playground just outside the classrooms where kids can choose to play outside, utilise the covered sandpit, or continue playing inside the all-weather shelter if it's raining.
All children in our care must be kept safe and supported by us as per our legal obligation.
Children are advised to dress in polo shirts from Townsend Barn Nursery.
The Wiltshire Council has given us a 5 Star certificate for food safety.
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Holidays 2023/24
| Holidays | Date |
|---|---|
| Autumn Half Term Holidays | 19th Oct 2023 - 27th Oct 2023 |
| Winter Holidays | 21st Dec 2023 - 3rd Jan 2024 |
| Spring Half Term Holidays | 12th Feb 2024 - 16th Feb 2024 |
| Spring Holidays | 29th Mar 2024 - 12th Apr 2024 |
| Summer Half Term Holidays | 27th May 2024 - 31st May 2024 |
| Summer Holidays | 25th Jul 2024 - 30th Aug 2024 |
Terms Dates 2023/24
| Terms | Dates |
|---|---|
| Autumn Term | 1st Sep 2023 - 18th Oct 2023 |
| Autumn Term-2 | 28th Oct 2023 - 20th Dec 2023 |
| Spring Term | 4th Jan 2024 - 11th Feb 2024 |
| Spring Term-2 | 17th Feb 2024 - 28th Mar 2024 |
| Summer Term | 13th Apr 2024 - 26th May 2024 |
| Summer Term-2 | 1st Jun 2024 - 24th Jul 2024 |
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