Great Dalby Preschool Prospectus

Welcome to Great Dalby Pre-School, where we inspire a love of learning though fun, and engaging experience.Great Dalby Pre-School is a small rural village pre-school.

We provide a safe, secure and stimulating environment in which every child is supported and nurtured to help them develop to their full potential. Our setting is run as a charitable business; valuing individuals. Where the parents and family are seen as a valued part of our community and it is managed by a volunteer/parent committee. Members are elected by the parents of the children who attend our setting.

The elections take place at our Annual General Meeting. The committee make up the registered person with Ofsted and are responsible for-

•Managing our finances

•Employing and managing our staff

•Making sure that we have and work to policies that help us to provide a high-quality service, make sure we work in partnership with parents.

The Annual General Meeting is open to the parents of all the children who attend our setting. It is our shared forum for looking back over previous years activities and shaping the coming years plansHere at Pre-School we have strong links with our primary schools, which always ensures a smooth transition for those children starting school. We offer places from ages 2.5 years to school age.

Our aim is to provide a traditional Pre-School approach to prepare children for school and enable them to make friendships and develop communications, and independence, to encourage the best possible start to school life.

Session times:

The Pre-School is open during school term time only, 38weeks

Monday – Thursday 9am – 3pm Friday 9am – 12pm

Our typical day:

We have a fantastic, safe and exciting outdoor area which allows the children to flow freely between both indoors and outdoors and is based in Great Dalby Village Hall.

Our approach here at Great Dalby, the children take on the lead within their own learning, using the “planning is in the moment” approach with the childrens interest and next steps at the focus of everything we do.

8.55 am children start to arrive, ready for the day. Some children wear the school sweatshirt or t-shirt but these are not compulsory.

9.00 am the school doors are open and the team greet the children.

During arrival time children will be supported with self-registration.

9.30 am is calendar time where the children gather together and sing our ‘days of the week’ song and ‘what’s the weather?

10.00am Snack time! Is an important social time with the children – along with promoting children’s independence. We encourage children to pour their own drinks and count how many pieces of fruit and veg they have.

10.30 Free play/planned activities/outdoor play, this will include trips out within the local community.

12.30 – joining together for our Packed lunch dinner.

1.30pm free flow outside.

3.00 Home time, BLAST OFF! We join together at home time by signing the blast off, showing the children it is now the end of the day.

Helpful information and essentials.

Please ensure your children’s belonging are clearly labelled.

Please provide your child/children daily with a water bottle. Milk is provided at snack times.

Please provide a pack lunch labelled with children’s name with have no space to store food. Please provide ice packs in your children’s lunch box.

Please ensure your child has a set of spare clothes, wellies and wet suits in the winter months. Wellington boots will be kept here long term.

During the warm weather please apply sun cream before their session and please bring a hat. We are happy to reapply with pre-school sun cream as and when.

If your child requires/nappies/pull ups, please ensure that you provide them with wipes and nappy bags each day.

If your child is being picked up by someone else other than yourself – please let us know as soon as possible, followed by a photo verification. On your registration documents you will also have a password on collection.

Children are not allowed to be picked up by anyone under the age of 16.

We have an online journey that all family have access to, sharing your children’s achievements and development during their journey here at Great Dalby Preschool. Together we can share their special moments together, we also use this platform to communicant newsletters, fundraising events and outings. Look out for your activation email.

Policies and procedures are available for parents to read, if you wish please don’t hesitate to ask.

We are a No nut setting, please make sure all the food within the lunch box meals are age suitable, and check packaging. (May contain is fine)

Committee information.

Great Dalby preschool is made up of a committee of volunteers and we are also welcoming new members.

The committee is responsible for,

Managing the setting finances

Supporting and Running fund raising events, cake sales, raffles, bingo nights.

Making sure the setting has polices and help provide a high quality service

Supporting with weekly tasks, washing towels, and gardening, DIY, share your work skills within the setting.

Ensure we have working within the community

Attending regular meeting

We hold annual meeting’s in which we invite anyone to attend. The meeting is open to parents of who’s children attend the setting.

Anyone that wishes to join will need a full DBS check.

Please contact the chair if you wish to find out more information.

Your help and support is greatly appreciated.

Our curriculum

We have a bespoke curriculum in Preschool that is designed specifically around the childrens needs, reflecting the childrens backgrounds and community and local traditions, Following the EYFS.

Children are allocated a key worker to nurture and support them throughout, creating a safe place for each child within the setting. They will spend time tracking their development and completing their reports. They will highlight any areas that the child might need support with within the setting or at home.

Planning within the moment allows us to adapt the planning to follow the children’s interest as well as taking on board their developmental needs.

As a pack away setting we also like to create spaces for children to self-select their own resources. ie: junk modelling with scissors, glue, tape, pens crayons and constructions resources.

Feee information

The hourly Rate for 2yr olds is £7.53 per hour, for 3 and 4 year old is £5.71 per hour, in line with the FEEE rate

We have a voluntary sundry charge. The funding that we receive from the county council is intended to cover the provision of child care, but unfortunately isn’t enough to cover additional costs such as consumables and snacks. We have a voluntary daily sundry charge of £2.50 per day attended per child. This will be itemised on your invoices. Without this voluntary charge, it is extremely difficult for us to provide the level of provision we currently offer

The voluntary payment also helps provide the setting with, sun cream, use of online journals, celebrations events, ie birthday gifts, graduation gifts, outings and activity’s, new furniture and baking, wipes and nappy creams.

If a parent is unwilling or unable to pay the fee, the parent should email the Great Dalby committee stating why they do not wish to pay the fee.

If you have any questions please don’t hessite to ask the committee.

We ask for a £50 non refunded registration fee, this is to secure your child’s place.

Helpful links

https://www.gov.uk/free-childcare-if-working/apply-for-free-childcare-if-youre-working

https://www.pampers.co.uk/toddler/potty-training

https://www.leicestershire.gov.uk/education-and-children/early-years-and-childcare/school-readiness

Funding info

Working Parents: Up to 30 hours of funded childcare is now available for children aged 9 months to 4 years. This is capped at 1,140 hours maximum per year (30 hours x 38 weeks).

Universal Support: 15 hours for ALL 3 & 4 year olds, capped at 570 hours maximum per year.

Government Support: Up to 15 hours for 2-year-olds on qualifying benefits (details on the Best Start in Life website).

Children’s birthday - 1 Jan to 31 March

When you can claim Term starting on or after 1 April

Recommended apply time 15 Jan to 28 Feb

Children’s birthday - 1 April to 31 August

When you can - claim Term starting on or after 1 Sept

Recomemended appy time - 15 June to 31 July

Children’s birthday - 1 Sept to 31 Dec

When you can claim - Term starting on or after 1 Jan

Recommended apply time- 15 Oct to 30 Nov

. We will NOT re-check 30-hour codes every 3 months for eligible parents. You MUST manually revalidate your codes with HMRC every 3 months to continue receiving your extended hours.Gov.uk/free-childcare-if-working/apply-for-free-childcare-if-youre-working