Our setting aims to:

• provide high quality care and education for children below statutory age
• work in partnership with parents to help children learn and develop
• add to the lives and well-being of the local community
• offer children and their parents a service that promotes equality and values diversity

We aim to ensure that each child:

• is in a safe and stimulating environment
• is given generous care and attention, because of our ratio of qualified staff to children
• has the chance to join in with other children and adults to live, play, work and learn together
• is helped to take forward her / his learning and development by being helped to build on what she / he already knows and can do
• has a Key Person who ensures each child makes reaches their full potential and is treated and respected as an individual
• is in a setting that sees parents as partners in helping each child to learn and develop
• is in a setting in which parents help to shape the service it offers

Parents are regarded as members of our setting who have full participatory rights. These include a right to be:

• Valued and respected
• Kept informed
• Consulted
• Included at all levels
• Involved

We operate a fully interactive record keeping system called Tapestry.  This enables us to share photographs & observations of children on a daily basis and for parents to share their photographs and anecdotes from home.  This gives us a fully rounded picture of each & every child.