Holy Cross Pre-school/Nursery aims to:

• provide high quality care and education for children primarily below statutory school age;
• work in partnership with parents to help children to learn and develop;
• add to the life and well being of its local community; and
• offer children and their parents a service which promotes equality and values diversity.

As a member of Holy Cross Pre-school/Nursery, your child:

• Is in a safe and stimulating environment
• Is given generous care and attention, because of our high ratio of adults to children
• Has the chance to join with other children and adults to play, work and learn together
• Is helped to take forward his/her learning and development by being helped to build on what he/she already knows and can do
• Has a personal key person who makes sure your child makes satisfactory progress
• Is in a setting which sees you as a partner in helping your child to learn and develop
• Is in a setting in which parents help to shape the service it offers.

Policies

Holy Cross Pre-school has comprehensive Policies and procedures, and we strongly recommend that parents read them, copies are available for loan from the setting. Copies of the settings policies and procedures are available for purchase on request. Our Policies include, for example:

• Children’s rights & entitlements
• Safeguarding children & child protection
• Looked after children
• Confidentiality & access to records
• Information sharing
• Uncollected child
• Missing child
• Supervision of children on visits/outings
• Maintaining children’s safety & security on the premises
• Making a complaint
• Diversity & equality
• Supporting children with Special Educational Needs [SEN]
• Achieving positive behaviour
• Animals in the setting
• Administering medicines
• Managing children with allergies or who are sick or infectious
• Nappy changing
• No Smoking
• Food & drink
• First Aid
• Employment & staffing
• Induction of staff, volunteers & Managers
• Student placement
• Risk assessment
• Health & Safety
• Fire safety & Emergency evacuation
• Recording & reporting accidents & incidents
• Food Hygiene
• Admissions
• The role of the Key person & settling in
• Early Years Prospectus [see website ‘prospectus’]
• Parental involvement
• Working in partnerships with other agencies
• Children’s records
• Provider records

Holy Cross Pre-school is first and foremost a Christian Pre-school working very closely with Holy Cross Catholic Primary Academy  School, and we follow closely the Christian religious calendar.

It is our intention to make our pre-school accessible to children and families from all sections of the local community, and do not exclude those from other religions, although they need to be aware and flexible to our Christian beliefs.

The settings policies help us to make sure that the service provided by Holy Cross is a high quality one and that being a member of Holy Cross is an enjoyable and beneficial experience for each child and her/his parents.

The staff and parents of Holy Cross work together to adopt the policies and they all have the opportunity to take part in the review of the policies. This review helps us to make sure that the policies are enabling the setting to provide a quality service for its members and the local community.

The Management of Pre-school/Nursery

The pre-school/nursery is owned and governed by Mrs Natalie Lynch.  

Holy Cross Pre-School encourages parents to support the group.  Parents are actively encouraged to become involved as volunteers,  in tasks, activities, completing questionnaires, and any changes proposed for the group.

The Session

Holy Cross organises its sessions so that the children can choose from - and work at - a range of activities and, in doing so, build up their ability to select and work through a task to its completion. The children are also helped and encouraged to take part in adult-led small and large group activities which introduce them to new experiences and help them to gain new skills, as well as helping them to learn to work with others.

Outdoor activities contribute to children's health, their physical development and their knowledge of the world around them. The children have the opportunity - and are encouraged - to take part in outdoor child-chosen and adult-led activities, as well as those provided in the indoor playroom/s.

Dinners

Holy Cross makes dinner time a social time at which children and adults sit together. Dinners follow a healthy eating plan, and include fresh food, fruit and vegetables, as well as Dairy. We plan additions to dinners so that they provide the children with healthy and nutritious food. Do tell us about your child's dietary needs and we will make sure that these are met.

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