4.              Organisation

4.1.       Individual Needs

 

4.1.1. Assessment and record keeping (See section 1.2)

 

4.1.2. Children’s Activities

Children's development and learning

Aims

Children start to learn about the world around them from the moment they are born. The care and education offered by our setting helps children to continue to do this by providing all of the children with interesting activities that are appropriate for their age and stage of development.

The curriculum at Forton Nursery group is based around the Early Years Foundation Stage framework.

There are four guiding themes in the framework and they describe how practitioners should support the development, learning and care of young children. The themes are in turn broken down into for commitments describing how to put the principles into practice.

They are as follows;

                        A Unique Child ‐ recognises that every child is a competent learner from birth who can be resilient, capable, confident and self‐assured. The commitments are focused around development; inclusion; safety; and health and well‐being.

                        Positive Relationships ‐ describes how children learn to be strong and independent from a base of loving and secure relationships with parents and/or a key person. The commitments are focused around respect; partnerships with parents; supporting learning; and the role of the key person.

                        Enabling Environments ‐ explains that the environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning. The commitments are based around observation, assessment and planning; support for every child; the learning environment; and the wider context ‐ transitions, continuity, and multi‐agency working.

                        Learning and Development ‐ recognises that children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates, and that all areas of learning and development are equally important and inter‐connected.

 

There are six areas of Learning and Development, they are all equally important and depend on each other to support a rounded approach to child development and learning.

They are as follows;

                        Personal, Social and Emotional Development

                        Communication Language and Literacy

                        Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy

                        Knowledge and Understanding of the World

                        Physical Development

                        Creative Development

For each area, the guidance sets out early learning goals. These goals state what it is expected that children will know and be able to do by the end of the reception year of their education.

The curriculum is planned around a topic each half term and then weekly sub topics. Such as Water for the half term topic with weekly topics including what we use water for, Animals in water and wet weather etc. The activities for each day can be found in the parental newsletter so you can see what your child will be learning that day.

 

4.1.3. S.E.N Policy (see section 1.8)

4.1.4. Individual Educational plans and Individual health care plans

Forton nursery

Individual Education Plan (Early years action, Early years action plus, Statement)

Name:                                                                                                                                                  I.E.P Number:

D.O.B.                                                                                   Date started:                                                                     Review date:

Targets	Criteria for success	Activities / resources	Who and When	Outcomes

 

Parents signature                                                                                                                            Setting Senco

Forton Nursery Group Early year’s health action plan

Targets to be achieved	Achievement criteria	Resources/Strategies	Outcome
1
2
Parents/Carers agree to :
Child comments
Signed		Manager/ SENCO	Date
Signed		Parent / carer

 

4.1.5. Key worker procedure

Statement of intent

Before a child starts at Forton Nursery they will be allocated a Key worker

Aim       

This helps the child the child to build relationships and maintains stability to promote self esteem

Methods

Each child is allocated a member of staff according to the session they attend

Staff members work alongside their children extending their developmental needs and recording these observations

At meetings staff come together to discuss observations they have made these are then incorporated into the plans to ensure that the children are continuously challenged and any problems can be identified and handled accordingly

The key worker will be available to give verbal reports to parents on a daily basis

These will be further discussed once a term at parents meetings, which are arranged at a mutual time and date.

A list of key workers and the children they monitor can be found on “Our family tree”

Relationships with parents, staff will form good relationships with parents. This will ensure ongoing communication and support to secure the very best outcome for the individual child

If a child develops a bond with another adult then we will swap key workers so that the child benefits from this relationship.

If a child’s key worker is of for period of 2 weeks or more due to illness or suspension management will assess who the child see’s regularly as well as if they have a relationship with them.