Our Vision was reviewed during session 2024/25 through consultation with children, families and staff. These were agreed as follows:
Our Vision
At Hazeldene, we provide a happy, homely setting where every child is seen, heard and valued. We celebrate childhood as a unique stage and nurture each child’s development through strong relationships, a sense of belonging, and meaningful experiences within a supportive community.
Values (being reviewed during session 2025/26)
- Nurture – The best interests of children are promoted throughout the centre.
- Relationships – Warm, responsive relationships create a positive climate for achievement.
- Achievement – we value the importance of play and time for children to investigate, create and develop at their own pace
- Well-being – We value each child as an individual, but also as part of a family and community.
- Respect – We celebrate diversity, respect others’ views and promote openness, honesty, trust and fairness
Our Guiding Principles of Early Childhood Education and Care
At Hazeldene:
- Childhood is seen as valid in itself. It is a stage of life and not simply preparation for the future.
- The whole child is considered to be important: social; physical; intellectual; moral and spiritual aspects of development are related.
- There is potential in all children which will emerge powerfully under favourable conditions. Each child is unique and special, with individual ways of learning.
- Parents are the first and continuing educators of their children. Educational establishments should value and build on parental expertise.
- Learning is holistic and interconnected. The young child does not separate experiences into different compartments.
- Young children learn through exploration, play and talk.
- Our starting points for supporting learning are what children CAN do and what they can NEARLY do.
- Intrinsic motivation is recognised and valued as a powerful force for learning.
- The relationships that children establish with adults and other children are of central importance in their development.
- Children’s education is seen as the total experience of, and interaction with, their environment.
The school should be seen as a community.
Let us live with our children
Let them live with us
So we gain through them
What all of us need.
Froebel