Nursery year
The Nursery is open during the school year and has the school holidays. Notification of the sessions’ holidays are given at the start of the year and in the monthly news bulletins.
Care Inspectorate Report
Please click on the link below to view our Report:
https://www.careinspectorate.com/index.php/care-services?detail=CS2003014768
Daily session time
Due to the implementation of 1140 hours our nursery session times are:
Monday – Friday 9:00am-3.00pm
Capacity
The nursery capacity and registration is for 42 places. The age groups are as follows:
Buttercup Room 2 years – 3 years 10 places
Sunflower Room 3 years – 5 years 32 places
Attendance
Regular attendance at nursery is very important to ensure learning opportunities and new experiences for your child are not missed. It would be helpful if parents could inform the school office by telephone if your child is not able to attend on any particular day. If your child is absent for a noticeable period of time and not contact has been made a letter will be sent to discuss your child’s placement.
Emergency contacts
Parents of children attending the nursery are asked to provide, where possible, the names, addresses and all telephone numbers of two relatives/friends who may be contacted in the case of emergency.
Please remember to inform the nursery of any changes in this information.
Arrival and collection of children
It is expected that a responsible adult will bring a child to and from nursery. In the interests of your child’s safety, your child’s key worker must be notified if he/she is to be collected by someone who would not normally do so. No child will be permitted to leave the building with an adult unknown to the staff without the parents’ consent. In the case of an emergency, please telephone the nursery to let the staff know.
Suitable clothing
Learning should be fun and children particularly enjoy messy work. We will always try to ensure they wear aprons, but accidents will happen, so please dress your child in suitable clothes.
The nursery has its own uniform, a blue polo shirt which has the nursery logo. Information regarding the uniform can be obtained at the school office or by nursery staff. However, it should be noted that the uniform is optional.
Please provide children with a pair of soft shoes or slippers, clearly marked with their name, which they can keep in the shoe bay.
Outdoor activities take place throughout the year so it is important where possible to dress your child with suitable clothing (i.e. Winter months – boots, hat, gloves, scarf. Summer months – sun cream, hat etc)
Snacks
As part of the nursery’s programme to promote healthy lifestyles, children are encouraged to eat balanced diets. St Mary’s Nursery Class promotes healthy eating and will provide nutritional snacks, milk and water for the children. The snack menu
is displayed on the Nursery noticeboard and changes every week. Please inform staff of any dietary requirements or allergies your child may have.
Voluntary contributions
Parents/Carers are asked to contribute a weekly donation of £3. This helps the nursery provide a varied snack menu as well as helping to support the nursery to provide all the extras that make the children’s experiences at nursery so enjoyable (e.g. celebrations, excursions etc). It should be noted that this contribution is not compulsory. Should you wish to contribute to the cost of purchasing snacks you can do so by creating a Parentpay account, please ask staff for further information.
There may be other sponsored and fun events held throughout the year and this enables us to improve nursery funds.
Further information can be found in our Nursery Handbook page. This includes information on transport, insurance, emergency closure of nursery, security, policies, child protection, parent partnership, the nursery curriculum and transition to primary school.
