Welcome to Guildhall Feoffment Preschool & Nursery CIO

Little Learners

A warm and inviting home from home environment
and designed to reflect varying needs
of this particular age group
providing homely affection and stimulation that a baby/pre toddler needs

Great Explorers

A warm and welcoming room which is set up to allow children the freedom to explore their environment and is designed to reflect the varying needs of toddlers/early preschoolers.

Pre-School

A bright, spacious and welcoming
room which is set up to allow children
the freedom to explore their environment

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Why Guildhall Feoffment Nursery

We have over 70 years of collective experience of working with children

We take Health and Safety of our children, their families, staff and the wider community seriously

Purpose built nursery, designed with your child in mind!

Healthy balanced diet with low salt, fat and no added sugar recipes prepared on site by our qualified chef

Hold various workshops throughout the year including, Creation Station, Tadpole Tunes and Zoolab

We are a not for profit charity and ensure that any profits made goes straight back into the business to benefit the children.

We have a committee that has parent representatives supporting the interests of the setting

We take funded children including those who are eligible for the 30 hours.

We are committed to curiosity-led learning and development, to support children’s sense of awe and wonder. We do this by providing children with resources that are natural and that are open ended to provide endless possibilities.

We provide a balance between play activities which children choose to take part, and practitioner led group activities

The deputy manager has a wealth of childcare experience and qualifications.

Little Learners

Our baby/pre toddler room for children aged 9 months to 2 years is designed to offer a home from home environment. We provide a rich and stimulating environment, indoors and outside, so that children can choose their own play and activities.  This allows all babies and pre toddlers to experiment and explore through a variety of play and sensory experiences using real life objects, natural resources and equipment to stimulate and encourage development. Your child’s day will be organised so that they can take part in a variety of child chosen and adult led activities and if your child requires quiet time during the day this will be catered for.

Our staff are all trained in Level 2 and 3 childcare qualifications and the Room Leader is a Level 6, who all support the children in a warm calm environment.

We have an online programme called Tapestry which records your child’s time whilst in our care. To get the full benefit of the Learning Journey you will have complete access so you can comment on what your child has been up to in the nursery and add photos and activities that they have been involved in at home.
A full record of nappy changes, feeds, sleep times and activities are recorded and fed back to you.
We aim to work closely with parents and carers and mirror home routines.’

Makaton Signing
Staff have been trained in Makaton signing which helps to develop young children’s social skills as they watch, sing along and play. It can also give babies a developmental head start and helps them to learn to communicate, express their needs, feelings and wishes, before they can talk.

Breast Feeding
We aim to make mothers feel comfortable in our nursery should they wish to breast feed their babies whilst here.

The baby’s routine will be discussed with the mother and key person and arrangements made for the mother to come in and feed their baby if you so wish.

Expressed milk can be stored either in our milk fridge or may be brought into nursery frozen.

Great Explorers

Our room for the toddlers/early preschoolers is based on our balanced curriculum, which aims to help children take an active part in their development through the ‘curious approach’, which means children play with real life objects, natural resources and other equipment. Your child’s day will be organised so that they can take part in a variety of child chosen and adult led activities and if your child requires quiet time during the day this will be catered for.

Learning also takes place through a wide variety of workshops and outside franchises such as Tadpole Tunes, Zoolab and Mini First Aid.

Most of our staff are trained in Level 3 childcare qualifications and occasionally we have apprentices to support the qualified staff in providing the children with a warm calm enriched learning environment.
We have an online programme called Tapestry which records your child’s time whilst in our care. To get the full benefit of the Learning Journey you will have complete access so you can comment on what your child has been up to in the nursery and add photos and activities that they have been involved in at home.
A full record of nappy changes, feeds, sleep times and activities are recorded and fed back to you.
We aim to work closely with parents and carers and mirror home routines.’

A full record of nappy changes, feeds, sleep times and activities are recorded and fed back to you.
We aim to work closely with parents and carers and mirror home routines.’

Pre-School

The Pre-School room has a very experienced Room Manager leading a team of staff that are qualified who are supported by the manager who is an Early Years Professional.  Together  they oversee the curriculum and co-ordinate the Early Years Foundation Stage.

We offer 2 and 3 year funding as well as sessions for fee paying families.  Our key person system means the team get to know your child really well. This enables them to plan in the moment according to their individual needs/interests using the Early Years Foundation Stage and set challenges for children in a sensitive way allowing them to find their own solutions to problems. Staff discuss ideas using skilful questioning which can encourage them to collaborate and learn from each other.

The spacious environment naturally allows play and learning to develop as resources are rotated regularly and set up in such a way to be inviting to the children to explore independently. Our skilled staff are always ready to step in and lend a supporting hand to ‘teach’ when the opportunity arises.

We have free flow play between indoors and outdoors throughout the day. We also benefit from low level windows looking out into the woodland next to Abby gardens for children to learn about the natural world.

The room is well designed with your child in mind and because of this children learn through play from the moment they arrive.

We have an online programme called Tapestry which records your child’s time whilst in our care. To get the full benefit of the Learning Journey you will have complete access so you can comment on what your child has been up to in the nursery and add photos and activities that they have been involved in at home.

What The Parents Say

Management
November 25, 2021

The calm and stable and highly professional management is what makes this preschool the wonderful place that it is.

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