About Fawley Independent Day Nursery
Mission
To deliver exceptional standards of childcare and education.
Values
The mission will be achieved by –
- Providing a safe and secure environment for children to learn
- maintaining quality through ongoing continuous professional development
- maintaining IIP (investors in people) Kitemark
- establishing and maintaining partnerships with parents
- working with external agencies to maximise learning opportunities
Nursery organisation
For operational purposes, although the children play together outside and have lunch together in the dinning room, there are three units as follows -
Jungle Babes - This is the unit for children under the age of 2.
Never Land - This unit is for 2 year olds - 3 year olds
Turtles - This unit is for 3 year olds - 5 year olds.
Key Person
Every child is allocated a key person when they join the nursery to ensure they develop a special bond to cater for all their needs whilst in the setting. The key person works very closely with the parents to provide continuity of care and build on interests displayed at home to encourage learning. Occasionally a child may gravitate towards a different member of staff, in which case the unit leader will follow the child's lead and change the key person!
Staff
I am very proud of the qualification levels of the team. The nursery has fully embraced the government aim of professionalising the sector by appointing some graduate professionals including 3 Early Years Professionals.
The team is led by -
Managing Director
Elizabeth Young
Bachelor of Education
Early Years Professional Status
Catherine Kilburn
Curriculum Manager and Teacher
BA Honours Primary Education
Early Years Professional Status
Nursery Deputy
Lorraine Fulton
NVQ 3 Children's Care, Learning and Development
Unit Leaders
1 Laura Doe
Jungle Babes (under 2's)
Early Years Professional Status
BA Honours Sociology
2 Julie Austin
Never Land (2 years - 3 years old)
Certificate of Higher Education in Working with Children
3 Lorraine Fulton
Turtles (3 years - 5 years old)
NVQ 3 Children's Care, Learning and Development
Practitioners
Turtles Unit (3 years - 5 years old)
Karen Littler
Nursery Practitioner
NVQ 3 Children's Care, learning and development
Leanne Barrett
Nursery Assistant
NVQ 3 Diploma in Children's and Young People's Workforce (in progress)
Neverland Unit (2 years - 3 years old)
Amanda Bartlet
Nursery Practitioner
NVQ 3 Children's Care, learning and development
Jade Gyton
Nursery Assistant
NVQ 3 Children's Care, learning and development
Hannah Arshad
Nursery Assistant
NVQ 3 Diploma in Children's and young People's Workforce (in progress)
Gemma Johnstone
Nursery Assistant
NVQ 3 Diploma in Children's and Young People's Workforce (in progress)
Jungle Babes Unit (under 2's)
Vikki Chatfield
Senior Nursery Practitioner
NVQ 3 Children's Care, Learning and Development
Kelly Price
Senior Nursery Practitioner
NVQ 3 Children's Care, learning and development
Sophie Pope
Nursery Assistant
NVQ 3 Children's Care, learning and development
Lauren Hayward
Nursery Assistant
NVQ 3 Diploma in Children's and Young People's Workforce (in progress)
The service provided is as good as the staff employed. Therefore all staff are carefully vetted during the interview process to ensure they are dedicated to a career with children.
New staff complete a health questionnaire and are CRB checked to ensure there are no criminal records which may compromise the quality of care. CRB's are repeated for all staff every three years.
Following appointment, staff go through a thorough induction program to ensure they are familiar with all the tried and tested policies and procedures to deliver exceptional standards of care.
Staffing ratio's are in line with the statutory requirements as published by Ofsted and typically 1:3 (for under 2's), 1:4 (2 years - 3 years old), 1:8 (3 years to 5 years) and 1:13 for the qualified teacher.
Opening Times
The nursery is open from 8am – 6pm, 52 weeks a year. We only shut for public holidays.
We do offer a limited number of teacher places whereby the children are off during holidays. These are offered on a 1st come 1st serve basis and there are no guarantees regarding availability.
