Sinclair Private Day Nursery

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Handbook

Telephone: 0141 6361212

E-mail – webmail.sinclairnurseryglasgow.co.uk

Sinclair Private Day Nursery

6 Sinclair Drive, Battlefield, G42 9QE

Telephone: 0141 636 1212

Email: webmail.sinclairnurseryglasgow.co.uk

Dear Parents,

Welcome to Sinclair Nursery, we hope that you and your child will have a happy and enjoyable time with us.

The purpose of the nursery handbook is to pass on information to parents about various procedures that will help your child’s placement run smoothly.

As a staff team we ensure parents are well informed of all aspects of nursery life.

A great source of information for parents is our planning walls, which are located outside each room; this is where you will find out what will be going on within your child’s room.

Our main notice board, which is located outside the office, will also keep you up to date with our policies and other nursery developments.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING…

Please provide a small bag, which can be left on your child’s peg in the cloakroom areas.

Your bag should contain the following: -

• Soft shoes or slippers which can be worn in the playrooms
• Underwear
• Top
• Trousers/Skirt
• Socks/Tights
• Wellington boots
• Suitable outdoor Jacket
• Sunhat
• Nappies

We also ask that you provide Sun cream.

Our Nursery and Staff

The nursery can accommodate 94 children per day.

The age range is from 6 weeks to 5 years before your child begins primary school.

The nursery manager is Vicky McPhail; if you require any advice or further information about the nursery, please do not hesitate to contact her at the nursery by telephone, or by arranging a meeting. TEL: 0141 6361212

Email:

Our Management Team

Owner: Peter Hume

Owner: Robert Burns

Manager: Vicky McPhail *

Depute: Donna Murphy *

Admin Manager: Sheila Donachie *

Supervisor Zeenat Bibi *

Supervisor: Mandy Garden*

Nursery Teacher: Audrey Doherty

*Staff with over 10 years of service to the nursery.

Nursery Hours

Full Day: 8.00am – 6.00pm

Morning Session: 8.00am – 1.00pm

Afternoon Session: 1.00pm -6.00pm

Please ensure that all morning session children are collected by 1 o’clock and afternoon children are collected by 6 o’clock. Please remember staff have responsibilities out with working hours, please ensure your child is collected by 6 o’clock.

In order to ensure the safety of all our children and avoid any congestion outside the nursery we offer flexible arrival and collection times.

COLLECTING YOUR CHILD

If someone other than the person stated on your registration form is collecting your child from nursery, you MUST inform the nursery beforehand, even if the person has the password we will not allow him or her to collect your child unless we have been informed by the parent.

NO ONE UNDER THE AGE OF 16 CAN BRING OR COLLECT YOUR CHILD.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

Our staff team are aware of and comply with the nurseries Confidentiality Policy at all times.

In the best interest of the child we work in partnership with parents, carers, and with other professional agencies, providing and sharing up to date and clear information on the progress of children’s development and learning at various times throughout the year.

Our Nursery Day

Our Nursery Day is designed to give every child the opportunity to enjoy a variety of learning experiences within a caring and nurturing environment.

Our Staff Team have had Training on the Implementation of the Curriculum for Excellence and Pre Birth to Three: Positive outcomes for Scotland’s Children and Families.

Our Curriculum is responsive – promoting and developing a wide range of skills and understanding, meeting the

needs of all children.

All of our staff are aware of the Rights of the child and the importance of establishing strong relationships with children and parents.

HERE ARE JUST SOME OF THE AREAS YOU WILL SEE WITHIN OUR PLAYROOMS: -

• LANGUAGE & LITERACY AREA
• BOOK CORNER
• ICT/COMPUTERS/SMART BOARD
• ART AND CRAFT
• SENSORY EXPERIENCES
• IMAGINATIVE AND ROLE PLAY
• WATER AND SAND
• CLIMBING AND PHYSICAL APPARATUS
• GAMES AND JIGSAWS
• MUSIC AND MOVEMENT
• CONSTRUCTION TOYS
• LENDING LIBRARY/HOME TO NURSERY PARTNERSHIPS
• LARGE OUTDOOR PHYSICAL PLAY AREA AND GARDEN

Throughout the nursery all activities and learning experiences that take place are reflective of the children’s needs and interests, and chosen learning focus.

A plan of the learning focuses can be found on the planning wall outside your child’s room.

Our Nursery Day flexible and responsive, enabling us to develop learning opportunities that are both planned and arise spontaneously from the children’s play, listening and talking and active involvement in their curriculum. Throughout the day there are periods of free purposeful play, responsive learning and the choice of planned experiences, which cover all areas of the 0-3 curriculum and the Curriculum for Excellence 3-18.

Our Vision, values and aims

We aim to provide a safe and friendly environment for all children and prepare each child to be confident individuals; successful learners that have respect for others and can make informed choices and decisions therefore empowering our young people.

Children will be encouraged to achieve their full potential at their own pace. We aim to do this by providing quality experiences and education for all, promoting health and well-being, literacy and Numeracy throughout the whole nursery.

We strive to provide equal opportunities for each child ensuring the curriculum offered is inclusive of children with learning difficulties and or disabilities and children from different backgrounds,

Child protection is paramount within the nursery and we follow the guidelines of “Safe and Well” and Management Circular 57.

We maintain at all times an open door policy and positively encourage parental participation. We work closely with outside agencies and our local community to facilitate the provision of our quality service.

As a nursery we incorporate all guidelines as set by the Scottish Executive and Glasgow City Council.

We also aim to provide a wide variety of opportunities for parents and the community to become actively involved in the life of our nursery, working in partnership to enhance your child’s learning.

Format of Evaluation

Staff work in partnership to plan your child’s learning journey.

Within our 3-5 room the Curriculum for Excellence will allow us to focus on developing knowledge and skill in the following areas:-

Literacy and English / Numeracy and Maths / Health and Well Being / Expressive Arts
Technologies / Social Studies / Religious and Moral Education / Sciences

CURRICULUM FOR EXCELLENCE IS ABOUT BRINGING LEARNING TO LIFE AND LIFE TO LEARNING.

Within our 0-3 rooms we follow guidance set out with in the Pre Birth to Three: Positive outcomes for Scotland’s children and families.

As well as following the 0-3 Curriculum which covers the following areas:-

Movement and coordination / Curiosity
Emotional and social competence / Communication

Each child’s progress will be monitored throughout their time at nursery, ensuring children achieve their best.

Our ongoing observations and recordings will identify individual strengths to be encouraged, and highlight areas where we can provide additional opportunities for challenge and development.

Each child will compile a portfolio of evidence of their work, scribed comments and pictorial evidence of their time at nursery – This helps promote our children as successful learners, effective contributors and confident individuals.

As part of our parental participation policy, nursery staff will meet with parents twice per year, for an informal evening to discuss their child’s progress, try out some activities and have a look at the children’s work.

PARENT’S WISHING TO DISCUSS THEIR CHILD’S LEARNING ARE WELCOME TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT WITH STAFF AT ANY TIME.

Additional Support for Learning

Where staff feel a child will benefit from additional support the Nursery Manager / Nursery Teacher may approach parents to access specialist assistance or advice:

Specialist Support, Speech Therapy, English as a second Language, Psychological Services, Health Visitors, Doctor, Social Work etc.

Parents can refer their child to any of these services by themselves if they wish

In all cases parents are encouraged to talk and work in partnership with the nursery and outside agencies.

ATTENDANCE

We ask parents to inform the nursery when or if their child is absent; it is your responsibility to inform the nursery of: details of your child’s absence and possible return date – either by making a quick telephone call, calling in or sending a message.

If your child is absent and we have not been notified we will phone you on your contact number to: ensure your child and family are safe and well, clarify details of the absence and record a possible return date.

We ask that if your child has an infectious illness that you help us, to protect others, by keeping your child at home and informing the nursery as soon as possible

HEALTH CARE

If your child becomes unwell while at nursery appropriate first aid / care will be given as necessary. Parents will be contacted and informed of the situation.

In the event of a more serious accident/Illness you would be contacted and if necessary, the family doctor or local doctor will also be contacted.

In an extreme emergency two members of staff will accompany a child to their medical practice / hospital while parents are on route.

PLEASE MAKE SURE THE NURSERY IS KEPT UP TO DATE ON ANY CHANGES IN CONTACT TELEPHONE NUMBERS, WHERE POSSIBLE LANDLINE NUMBERS SHOULD BE GIVEN.

PERSONAL BELONGINGS AND CLOTHING

We like to be comfortable, safe and have fun at nursery.

Therefore we encourage our children to wear:-

• Slippers or soft shoes
• Comfortable Clothing

We discourage our children from wearing:-

• Jewellery
• Football colours
• Heavy outdoor footwear

IT IS HELPFUL WHEN PARENTS LABEL THEIR CHILD’S BELONGINGS; THIS HELPS TO AVOID THE OCCASIONAL MIX U

SUGGESTIONS

Suggestions as to how the nursery might provide a better service are welcomed, particularly from the parents. These can be offered in a variety of ways – directly to the Manager or to a member of staff. We will also issue annual parental questionnaires.

COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE

Within the nursery we aim to provide a high standard of quality service and practices however we acknowledge that things on occasions can go wrong despite our best efforts.

Nursery management would like to know if and when things go wrong to enable us to investigate and resolve the problem. This is of great importance to us to guard against the problem being repeated.

Parents and staff are encouraged to communicate directly with senior management in confidence and all correspondence/comments are acted upon to develop our quality of service or resolve situations or can correspond directly with the Care Inspectorate.

If a member of staff or parent is not satisfied with the action taken by senior management or the outcome of a particular issue you can contact:

Care Inspectorate

4th Floor

1 Smithhills St

Paisley

PA1 1EB

Tel No: 0141 843 4248

WE HOPE THAT BOTH YOU AND YOUR CHILD HAVE A VERY ENJOYABLE TIME AT SINCLAIR NURSERY!