Protecting Your Child

We have noticed that some of the children in the nursery and their siblings actually know the security code to the building. Can you please refrain from letting your children type in the code to get into the building to enable us to best protect your child.
Also can you please ensure that you close the doors behind you and that you don’t let anyone in unless you recognise them. I’m sure they will understand as this is to enable us to safeguard the children. We always have a door bell on us so we will let them in.

Who Wears Yellow T-Shirts?

You may have seen a couple of people in yellow t-shirts walking round the nursery recently and wondered who they are? They are being worn by our students so that you can easily identify who is not a permanent member of our team. We take students on from the local colleges who are working towards their childcare relevant qualification. Our current student is Jessica.

Learning Through Purposeful Play

As part of our learning through purposeful play philosophy we encourage the children to participate in activities for their sensory and tactile experience. As you can imagine this often becomes a messy but creative and personal experience. We support the children and encourage them to learn through their experiences and we will always encourage the children to use an apron and to wash their hands after.
Please can you provide your child with a couple of changes of spare clothes for nursery as we only have a limited supply of spare clothes for use in emergencies. All children should have their own Cherry Childcare shoe string bag for you to put their clothes in, if not just let me know and we will get you one. Also if you have any spare clothes at home that your child grows out of we would really appreciate them.

Just in Case it Snows!

We have all heard the forecasts for the weekend and next week but, we will have to wait to see if it does snow and the impact if it does.

IN THE EVENT OF OPENING IN BAD WEATHER
It is likely that both Staff and Parents will find it difficult and may have delayed journeys during bad weather.  In order to provide for the children in our care we will:

a.    Supervise any children in the least number of rooms until sufficient staff numbers allow for this to change. 
b.    If further adverse weather is expected we will advise parents of a possible early closure and ensure we have appropriate contact numbers for that day.

IN THE EVENT OF EARLY CLOSURE
If further adverse weather is expected it may delay Parents ability to collect their child, for staff to get home and access to the site may be impaired.  In this instance we will:   

a.    Contact all Parents at the earliest opportunity advising closure. This will be no later than 3pm on the day of closure.
b.    Supervise children in the least number of rooms based upon staff numbers. 
c.    Care for your child until collection. 
d.    Release staff as soon as numbers allow. 

IN THE EVENT OF CLOSURE ON THE DAY
We will make reasonable efforts to ensure the nursery is open during bad weather however, should access to the nursery be too difficult and unsafe we may have to close.   If we do we will:

a.    Advise Parents upon arrival that we are closed.
b.    Telephone remaining Parents advising them of closure.
c.    Send out via email a Newsflash advising Parents of closure.
d.    Notify named contact at local radio.