Pre-School Nursery

OUR PHILOSOPHY

"We want all the children to be valued and respected equally"

Ravensthorpe Community Childcare aims to provide a high standard of individual and group care. Children are supported in various ways; by good role modeling, interaction, scaffolding, observation and assessment. We focus on meaningful activities to support children’s learning development. The setting is registered with OFSTED and the Pre-School Learning Alliance.

ABOUT US

I am delighted to welcome you to Ravensthorpe community childcare Nursery website. I hope our website offers you an insight into our amazing Ofsted Outstanding setting and the opportunities we offer our young learners.

As Ravensthorpe community childcare we are staffed with 12 qualified childcare practitioners who provide the highest quality learning experiences for children who attend Ravensthorpe community childcare.

If you would like to know more about our nursery, please ring 01924 978910. Or request a ring back; our staff speak several languages including English, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, and Pashto.

our VISION AND VALUES

We aim:

To ensure that all learners benefit from a rich, broad, balanced Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum presented in an interesting, exciting and imaginative manner with lots of opportunities for first-hand experience, practical work, investigation and learning through play.
Children’s early development and learning is viewed as holistic in nature and all 7 Areas of Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage are complementary and stand together. These will be central to our work.
To enrich the curriculum with extensive use of the environment.
To give responsibility to learners and develop their self-confidence by contributing to the community.
To build an ethos marked by a welcoming, friendly, bright and lively, happy place where learners feel secure.
To be an inclusive setting and to put into place the practice in all aspects of our work that ensures that all learners are given equality of opportunity and treated fairly.
To promote and achieve high standards for all by providing teaching and learning of the highest quality.
To treat learners as individuals and to differentiate teaching and learning to take account of their individual and special needs.
To provide outstanding provision to meet learners’ physical, mental, social, spiritual, moral, and cultural needs.
To provide outstanding provision to meet learners’ care, health, and safety needs.

ADMISSIONS

If you are interested in joining us and want to find out more, contact us to arrange a visit.

OUR LEARNING & CURRICULUM

We believe the Early Years Foundation Stage is crucial. It is our intent that the children "grow strong roots" pyhsically, verbally, cognitively, and emotionally whilst developing a love for lifelong learning. We are passionate in allowing children to achieve their full potential with the use of learning sheets to identify each interest and next steps which further enables independent growth and development.

Children in our Nursery follow the EYFS Curriculum, which has seven main areas of learning -

The teaching of these areas of learning is practical and playful with support and challenge from adults in Key Group Sessions, small group sessions and working with individuals. There is a combination of adult led and child led sessions as well as a wealth of stimulating continuous provision opportunities.

The Prime Areas:

1) Communication and Language
 Understand simple instructions and recognise objects
 Listen to others and pay attention to stories
 Talk about feelings - Understand “ Why, Who, what, where,”
 Enjoy stories
 Use different words and sentences - Talk in sentences
 Sing rhyme

2) Personal, Social and Emotional Development
 Become independent & confident
 Make friendships
 Follow rules and boundaries
 Understand teeth brushing
 Being healthy and make healthy decisions
 Be able to wash their hands and use the toilet.
 Turn taking - Express their emotions and ask question

3) Physical Development
 Be independent - Feeding, dressing self, etc.
 Use tools
 Use big motor skills e.g. catching, throwing, running, kicking, jumping, and balancing.
 Use small motor skills e.g. drawing, writing, and building, opening zips, buttons and pouring drinks.

The Specific Areas:

4) Literacy
 Singing songs and Rhymes
 Pay attention to words and sounds - Finding our names/ looking at numbers
 Copy different sounds
 Enjoy books together
 Mark making by drawing our family picture

5) Mathematics
 Count objects/ build with different objects
 Compare size and weight
 Use words like “Bigger/ little / Smaller, / High / low, / Tall/Heavy.
 Complete puzzles
 Counting object and put them into groups
 Notice patterns

6) Understanding the World
 Explore how things work
 Talk about different people and what they do, e.g. police officer, dentist, doctor.
 Learn about different senses e.g. touch, smell, taste, hear,
 Look at different places and countries.
 Look at our families
 Learn how to care for animals and plants and how they grow

7) Expressive Arts & Design
 Exploring colour and colour mixing
 Pretend play
 Use imagination Making up stories

8) Explore different materials and textures
 Make music and sing nursery songs
 Dancing with scarves
 Draw more complex pictures and label them.
 Explore shapes

Characteristics of Effective Teaching and Learning We strive to provide opportunities and encouragement which develop these skills to enable our children to draw upon them throughout their life. Alongside the Prime and Specific Areas, the EYFS Curriculum focusses on the way’s children learn, the skills they will need to be successful lifelong learners. These characteristics are separated into three areas:
Playing and exploring - engagement  Finding out and exploring  Playing with what they know  Being willing to have a go	Active Learning - motivation  Being involved and concentrating  Keeping trying  Enjoying achieving what they set out to do.	Creating and thinking critically - thinking  Having their own ideas  Making links  Choosing ways to do things.

Raventhorpe community childcare use TAPESTRY - an easy going and secure online learning journal which allows staff and families to celebrate their childrens learning and development. Tapestry builds a very special record of a child's experiences, development, and early year's learning journey. The online journal can tell the story of each childs growth and development through photos, observations, diary entries and our early year's practitioners. Tapestry then works seamlessly to enable these memories to be kept as permanent record of every childs unique journey. All information held in the platform is stored securely and can be downloaded and shared as required. Parents are able to view their childs progress and how much fun they're having via online.

staff team

aLL OUR STAFF ARE QUALIFIED FROM LEVEL 3, 4, 5 AND ABOVE

Safeena Ahmad

Nursery Manager

Perween Ajaz

Deputy Manager

Sabina Bashir

Deputy Manager

Nazma Majid

Team Leader

Sabiha Dad

Team Leader

Sharon Fowley

SENCO

CHILDCARE PRACTITIONERS

Learning Lead

Shaheen Farooq

Learning Lead

Zakkiyah Hussain

Aamena

Manzoor

Anisa

Bi

Norisha

Rashid

Haleemah

Aksar

Our NURSERY DAY

Nursery Opening Times - We operate from Monday to Friday

8.45am to 11.45am

11.45am to 12.30pm lunch club

12.30pm to 15.30pm

We provide snack for morning and afternoon sessions

we are term time only.

OFSTED

We have been Ofsted Outstanding THREE times since the past 12 YEARS.

WHAT OFSTED SAY ABOUT US

Ravensthorpe Community Childcare

24 Garden Street, Dewsbury, WF13 3AR

The quality and standards of the early year’s provision

This inspection: Outstanding 1

Previous inspection: Outstanding 1

The quality of education: Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Outstanding

Overall effectiveness at previous inspection: Outstanding

Summary of key findings:

This provision is Outstanding

Teaching is outstanding. Staff make excellent use of accurate assessments of Children's progress to plan the next steps in their learning. Children thrive in this stimulating childcare and make excellent progress from their individual starting points.

Our Ofsted Report https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50191169

We run a HAF provision in the holidays for children on free school meals.

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Pre-School Nursery

Service Users Testimonials......

" Staff are nice and find it easy to communicate as English is a second language. My son has settled very well. "

Zaira

" The nursey overall is very good, my daughter's development has improved a lot she has picked up a lot of English since she has started nursery she speaks English at home to everyone and has attempted to write her name at home. Staff are very good and helpful. Her key worker is brilliant and has done a great job in supporting my daughter achieve her targets "

Nazma

" My daughter enjoys coming to nursery she talks about nursery at home. The staff are helpful and friendly; she has been given extra support with homework. "

Shabana

" The nursery is very good; the staff are very pleasant and friendly. My child enjoys coming to nursery and talks about nursery at home. She has started to write her name and is able to recite her numbers to 10 she has imporved alot since she has started nursery "

Sobia

" Staff have extremely high expectations for children's learning. The curriculum is meticulously planned and sequenced so that all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make excellent progress across all areas of learning "

Ofsted 2020

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Policy Statement

Ravensthorpe Community Childcare

The Welfare Requirements

These Policy and Procedure have been developed in accordance with section 3.8 (The statutory Framework of the Early Years Foundation Stage) and incorporating the EYFS themes and commitments.

We have the following policy and procedures;

Safeguarding children

Safeguarding overarching policy.
Children’s rights and entitlements.
Safeguarding children and child protection.
Looked after children.
Information sharing.
Uncollected child.
Missing child.
Supervision of children on outings and visits.
Maintaining children’s safety and security on premises.

Equality of opportunity.

Valuing diversity and promoting equality.
Supporting children with special educational needs.
Achieving positive behaviour.

Information and complaints

Making a complaint.
Allegations.
Admissions.
Confidentiality and clients’ access to records.

Promoting health and hygiene

Animals in the setting.
Administering medicines.
Promoting health and hygiene.
Nappy changing.
No-smoking.
Food and drink.
First aid

Employment

Employment and staffing.
Indication of staff, volunteers and managers.
Students.

Health and safety

Risk assessments.
Health and safety general standards.
Fire safety and emergency evacuation.
Recording and reporting.
Food hygiene.

Administration.

Admissions.
Application to join.
Fire safety and emergency evacuation.
Registration.

Child care practice.

Prospectus.
The role of the key person.
Parental involvement.
Working in partnership with other agencies.

Record keeping

Children’s records.
Provider records.
Policy statements.

All policies and procedures are available for parents to view and are displayed in our comfortable waiting area.

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Nursery contact details

Address:

Ravensthorpe Community Childcare

24 Garden Street Ravensthorpe

Dewsbury

WF13 3AR

Contact Manager:

Safeena Ahmad

01924 510030 / 01924 978910

Nursery Mobile: 07862318857

[email protected]

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