Key Carers

Each child will be allocated a Key Carer once they start the nursery. This will be your child’s main carer when in nursery and your point of contact who you’ll build a relationship with through handovers, parents meeting etc. The Key Carers role will consist of caring for your child during their day with us. Your child’s Key Carer will support your child’s needs such as bottle feeding, nappy changing and toileting needs. The Key Carer will carry out observations, planning, tracking and assessments of your child and send these to you along with photographs through our EY Log app. The Key Carer will keep you up to date with your child’s learning and development and together through the Ey Log app you can shares ideas, activities, observations, interests and progress both at home and in nursery.

Settling in and transition visits

Once you have registered your child to start at Bumbles Nursery you will be invited into the nursery for a Key Carer appointment and settling in visits. During the Key carer appointment you will stay with your child in the room whilst you meet their Key Carer and discuss your child’s routines and interests. You’ll then be offered visits to help your child settle into the nursery. We believe every child is unique and will take different times to settle, therefore we offer as many visits as you wish to support your child’s transition into starting nursery. Following on from the first visit we encourage parents/carers to gradually aim to leave your child. Initially you can stay in the staff room and enjoy a ‘hot’ cup of tea with the reassurance that you are not far away if needed.  Once your child starts to feel safe and secure within their new setting and starts building a relationship with their Key Carer you are welcome to go offsite.

School Readiness

The EYFS framework describes school readiness as ‘giving children the broad range of knowledge and skills that provide the right foundation for good future progress through school and life’

Here at Bumbles Nursery when preparing children for school our practitioners understand the importance of being school ready and cover a range of activities to ensure all aspects of the EYFS is covered and children learn and develop the best they can, offering them the best possible start in their early education.

We will support parents with choosing the right school for their child. Once parents receive confirmation from the school that your child has a place, the staff will then start gathering this information for all parents and will be able to see what children may be going to the same school.  Our staff will then contact the schools and invite the reception teachers into our setting to meet the children in an environment that they feel safe and secure in. Whilst visiting the setting the reception teachers will talk to your child, find out their interests and observe them playing, they will also chat with the children’s Key Carer to discuss their stages of development. The staff will then prepare children for school by displaying different uniforms, book bags and photographs of the school they will be attending. Children gain essential knowledge through the ‘awe and wonder’ of the world they live in through different experiences. During the last term staff will focus on promoting independence, social skills and supporting the children to sit and enjoy listening to a story. Transition booklets and assessments details will then be forwarded on to your child’s new school before starting.