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All children have different ways of coping with a new environment, new adults and play friends; we are sympathetic to individual needs. We want your child to feel safe and happy in your absence, therefore, you may find it easier to stay with your child until he / she feels comfortable with the new surroundings and us. Children cannot play and learn successfully if they are anxious or unhappy, please rest assured that you and your child will have our full support until he / she is settled.
Home Visits
As part of our settling-in process, we offer home visits before your settling in sessions with us. At Scallywags Nursery, we strive to carry out home visits for every child starting with us to ensure a smooth transition and to help your child feel comfortable and secure. The aim of the home visits is for the child to begin building bonds and forming attachments with their key person.
During the home visit, you will meet the Manager or a Senior team member, accompanied by your allocated key person. This visit is an excellent opportunity for your child to start building bonds and forming attachments with their key person. We will also use this time to ask questions and gather information about your child’s likes, interests, medical history, and food preferences. We will bring with us a box of toys, a starting nursery social story and a nursery bag. Parents are welcome to share as much or as little information as they feel comfortable with.
Home visits are not mandatory. If you prefer, we can complete the necessary forms during your first hour of settling in at the nursery.
Settle 1: @ 10am – 11am (You stay the whole hour with your child and meet your key worker)
Settle 2: @ 10am – 12pm (You will leave your child with us to play and have lunch)
Settle 3: @ 10am – 2pm (You will leave your child with us to play, have lunch and quiet/rest time)
Additional settles can be booked in if needed
For those children with long term medicine, please supply the medicine in original packaging from your child’s GP, your child’s key person will complete a form with you regarding administering.
Can children please wear suitable clothes to nursery each day including appropriate footwear, suitable coats, hats, and scarfs as we go out into the outdoor area weather permitting most days. Please ensure that all of the items brought to Nursery are clearly labelled with your Child’s Name.
The move from nursery/pre-school to primary school is a massive step for both the children and their parent/carers.
On finding out from parents which school their child will be attending, either the pre-school room leader or individual key practitioners will contact the schools to arrange a meeting. This would involve the child’s new teacher coming into the setting and meeting the children in their nursery environment and getting to know them.
We also include the discussion of moving to primary school within our daily circle time and get the children involved in a variety of school related activities.
Each child’s key practitioner will also complete a detailed transition form including all the areas in which the child has met and completed each area of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and ensure this form along with an up-to-date progress report of the child is sent off to the reception teacher.
We are pleased to announce that Scallywags Nursery have gained our Sun Safe Nursery Award. This is a voluntary undertaking by the nursery following an invitation from Sun Safe Nurseries (an Award Scheme), which has been developed by national skin cancer charity to encourage the necessary culture change regarding attitudes towards sun safety required to combat the soaring rates of skin cancer in the UK. We therefore believe that together we have a duty of care to ensure that our children grow up with sufficient knowledge of sun safety and that all children at our nursery are adequately protected against the sun’s harmful rays.
As such we will be utilising the Sun Safe Nurseries Scheme to teach children in our care basic sun safe messages through engaging teaching resources. In addition, whilst we have always strongly encouraged parents to send their child/children to nursery with sunscreen and a hat to use during outdoor play in the hotter months, we understand parents sometimes forget. As part of gaining our Sun Safe Nursery Status we are committed to ensuring that all parents/guardians are further informed and reminded of the importance of sending your child into nursery with an appropriate sun hat and quality sunscreen.
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