Our nursery curriculum explores all seven key areas of EYFS learning.

1

Communication and Language

Giving children opportunities to experience a rich language environment, to develop their confidence and skills in expressing themselves, and to speak and listen in a range of situations.

2

Literacy Development

Encouraging children to link sounds and letters and to begin to read and write. Giving children access to a wide range of reading materials (books, poems etc) to ignite their interest.

3

Understanding the World

Guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community through opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology and the environment.

4

Mathematics

Providing children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, calculating simple addition and subtraction problems, and to describe shapes, spaces and measure.

5

Physical Development

Providing opportunities for children to be active and interactive, and to develop their co-ordination, control and movement. Children must also be helped to understand the importance of physical activity and make healthy choices in relation to food.

6

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Helping children to develop a positive sense of themselves and others; to form positive relationships and develop respect for others; to develop social skills and learn how to manage their feelings; to understand appropriate behaviour in groups, and to have confidence in their own abilities.

7

Expressive Arts and Design

Enabling children to explore with a wide range of media and materials. Providing opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play and design and technology.

Every single thing we do is geared towards supporting the children in our care and achieving our mission: to nurture, inspire and have fun every day!

Nurture

We nurture our children in a million little ways; from providing a safe and loving environment, to feeding them nutritious homemade food. With cuddles, support and a positive approach to care and education, we’re constantly working to provide our little ones with a nurturing environment where they can thrive.

Nurturing at nursery comes in so many forms, from the day-to-day care of nappy changes to wiping away tired tears and turning them into a fit of the giggles. They’re all the little moments that make our children – and our parents – feel happy, safe and secure.

Inspire

By inspiring a love of learning at a young age, we lay the foundations of a fantastic start to our children’s education. Our team inspire our children with magical learning experiences every single day, with the aim of creating the curious thinkers and doers of the future.

We take lots of inspiration from our children too! Just like with adults, every child is completely unique with their own interests, perspectives and sense of wonder. Every day, this inspires us to come up with new and exciting ways to teach them everything they need to know before it’s time to go to school.

Have fun every day!

Being carefree and having fun is what childhood is all about, and we consider it our job to make sure our children can do just that.

As childcare professionals, we know that children learn best when they’re having so much fun they don’t even realise they’re being educated. That’s why we’ll always use our knowledge of the EYFS combined with our own passion for childcare, to make sure our children have fun while they learn. From trips into the community, to splashing about in puddles and building rocket ships from cardboard boxes: our children learn the fun way every day!

SEND Local Offer

The special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) local offer brings together information that is helpful to children and young people aged 0-25 and their families.

The local offer at Just Childcare covers:

  • Public services that are available within education, health and social care
  • Help for parents and carers like independent advice services and who to speak to if you think that your child needs extra help
Jigsaw Piece

Just Childcare prides itself on the relationships that we have with the children and their families. Each child is allocated a ‘key person’ and a buddy ‘key person’ prior to them starting at the nursery. This person is responsible for completing regular observations and termly assessments for each of their key children. Alongside this, the ‘key person’ uses their knowledge of the children and their interests to plan exciting and stimulating experiences for them. Through the regular observations, assessments, and daily interactions with the children we can identify quickly and easily if any child would need any additional support.

During the initial visits at the nursery with the child’s ‘key person’, a baseline assessment is completed with the child’s parents and the ‘key person’. This is an ideal opportunity for the parents to identify any needs with the ‘key person’ so that Just Childcare can ensure that all needs are catered for.

Our relationship with each child ensures that their individual needs are being met. To further support this we have comprehensive policies and procedures which are regularly reviewed and altered if necessary. Furthermore, we have a dedicated nursery SENDCO (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities co-ordinator) who has received specialist training to support the children and their families.

Where necessary, the SENDCO will work closely with the ‘key person’ to create and implement any relevant plans, such as individual targeted plans, that are required which celebrate the child’s abilities and interests.

Our SENDCO is responsible and skilled at liaising with external agencies and professionals such as Inclusion Officers, Speech and Language Therapists and the child’s Health Visitor so that we can gain additional advice and support should we need to. Parents are consulted prior to any involvement with external agencies and are fully involved in any such intervention, our SENDCO and the ‘key person’ will work in partnership to ensure that all strategies, suggestions and targets remain a focus.

At Just Childcare, we recognise and value that each parent is their child’s first and primary educator and as such the partnership that we build is paramount. We aim to ensure that open and honest communication is maintained to continue to fully support every child’s learning and development.

Regular parent’s evenings are held, usually 3 times per year, to review children’s progress. This information is also shared on the child’s online learning journal to enable parents to view the progress and add to the record whenever they would like. This ensures we work closely to monitor, plan and evaluate children’s learning and progress.

At Just Childcare we are proud that all of our nurseries are individual. We celebrate the uniqueness of each nursery and encourage this to remain a feature at Just Childcare. We have a wide range of different buildings and layouts from single storey buildings to houses etc. Each child’s individual needs are taken into account. The nursery manager and SENDCO will confidently work in partnership with the parents to ensure that the environments remain as inclusive and accessible as is possible. All reasonable adjustments will be made to support the child and their individual needs.

All transitions at Just Childcare are completed with the child at the very centre of the process. We appreciate that preparing each child for their next adventure can be daunting for both the child and their parents. Therefore, we ensure that each and every transition is well planned, thought out and communicated with the parents and any relevant external agencies. To support the smooth transition of all children, we have created a transition document with all of the necessary information. This is shared with the next ‘key person’ and the parents are invited into the nursery to meet this individual, ensuring that we maintain our commitment to support the child throughout their journey with us at Just Childcare.

When the time arrives for a child to move on to school, we will facilitate a meeting with the schoolteacher, parents, external agencies (where necessary), the ‘key person’, the SENDCO and the nursery manager to ensure that all of the child’s requirements are successfully relayed to support as smooth a transition as possible. If required, the child’s ‘key person’ and/or the SENDCO will visit the school to share their knowledge about the child.

As always, the care and education of the children at Just Childcare is paramount and our teams are well supported by their SENDCO to be able to signpost you effectively to any additional support that you may require.

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