Kiln Hill Pre-School Ltd.
2016 -2017
Welcome Pack
Welcome to Kiln Hill Pre-School Ltd. (Ofsted Registration EY359531)
We provide pre-school care and education for
2 to 5 year old children with funded places available from 3 years old and
qualifying 2 year olds.
Sessions cost £9.00 for 2 year olds and £8.50 for 3+ years unless funded and
run term time only from:
Mornings: Monday to Friday 8.45am to 11.45 am
Afternoons: Monday to Friday 12.30pm to 3.30pm*
We also run a breakfast club from 8.00am and provide a lunch club between the
two main sessions.
We work closely with other local childcare providers to accommodate a drop-off
and pick-up service and help you provide wrap around care to suit your needs.
Contact us:
Kiln Hill Pre-School Ltd., Mitchell Memorial Hall, Kiln Hill, Tweedmouth, Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, TD15 2EZ
Tel: 01289 330052,
Mob: 07709 613675
e-mail:[email protected]
*afternoon sessions available where demand allows
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Who We Are
Key Person:
Kiln Hill Pre-School has a key person system. This means that each member of staff has a
group of children for whom they are responsible. When your child first starts at Pre-School
their key person will help them settle in and throughout their time at Pre-School will
communicate with you directly. The key people write and update records of development for
each child that they are responsible for and formulate individual developmental plans. This
helps us to document their successes and to outline their very personal needs; providing an
appropriately stimulating environment in order to enable your child to constantly be moving
forwards and making progress. Parents will be encouraged to contribute to this record and
the key person will collect information from you about your child’s needs, favourite activities,
interests and achievements.
Trudy Richardson
Orange Group Key
Person
Tracy Wilkinson
Lisa Johnston
Donna Willcox
Cheryl Grey
Yellow Group Key
Person
Green Group Key
Person
Red Group Key
Person
Blue Group Key
Person
Pre-school Deputy
Pre-school Assistant
Pre-school Assistant
Pre-school Assistant
Qualified in Early
Qualified in Early
Years to Level 3
Qualified in Early
Years to Level 3
Qualified in Early
Years to Level 3
Pre-school Manager
& Inclusion Coordinator
Qualified in Early
Years to Level 3
Years to Level 4
All staff members are appropriately trained and continue to update their skills.
We also provide placements for local Academy and college students studying for childcare
qualifications and earning work experience.
We are also supported by a committee, the chairperson is currently Kirsty Randall and she
can be contacted by email at [email protected]. If you are interested in
joining the committee please just ask one of the girls.
We are always very happy to welcome in parents and friends of the pre-school to help out
with craft activities, read stories and share their time, skills and knowledge with us. If you
would like to become more involved then please come and talk to a member of staff.
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The Early Years Foundation Stage and Our
Commitment To You
As a Pre-School we implement the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). This framework
has a play based approach towards individualised care, learning and development.
All Early Years childcare providers use the EYFS and pledge to work in partnership with each
other and parents to ensure quality all round provision.
Through sensitive and careful observations your child’s key worker will be able to plan and
provide quality learning and development opportunities, through play, specific to your child.
Throughout the Pre-School we aim to offer activities and experiences which:
1. Build on and develop all areas of each child’s learning and development.
2. Allow each child to learn and have fun through both free and led play.
3. Allow each child to build their knowledge, confidence and sense of curiosity through both
free and led exploration and experiences.
4. Allow each child to learn about and respect both their indoor and outdoor environments.
5. Provide and promote a sense of achievement and well being, allowing each child to take
pride in their own achievements.
6. Provide and promote the sharing of information about each child’s progress with their
families and/or carers.
7. Provide and promote positive attitudes for the children themselves and for others:
including people who are different from themselves.
8. Provide and promote a strong sense of safety and security.
9. Offer equal opportunities to all, regardless of their gender, their physical and/or mental
ability and their racial, social, or cultural backgrounds.
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Breaking Down the Early Years Foundation Stage
The 4 Themes of the Early Years Foundation Stage
A Unique Child
Positive Relationships
Every child is a unique child who is constantly learning and
Children learn to be strong and independent through
can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.
positive relationships.
Enabling Environments
Learning and Development
Children learn and develop well in enabling environments,
Children develop and learn in different ways. The
in which their experiences respond to their individual
framework covers the education and care of all children
needs and there is a strong partnership between
in early years provision, including children with special
practitioners and carers.
educational needs and disabilities.
Through positive relationships with unique children in an enabling environment we aim to offer each
child challenging but enjoyable experiences to encourage and enhance their learning and development.
The 7 Areas of Learning and Development and their Aspects
Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED)
Physical Development (PD)
Self-confidence and Self-Awareness
Moving and Handling
Managing Feelings and Behaviour
Health and Self-Care
Making Relationships
Communication and Language (CL)
Literacy (L)
Listening and Attention
Reading
Understanding
Writing
Speaking
Mathematics (M)
Understanding the World (UtW)
Numbers
People and Communities
Shape, Space and Measures
The World
Technology
Expressive Arts & Design (EAD)
Exploring and Using Media and Materials
Being Imaginative
The 3 Characteristics of Effective Learning
Playing and exploring : engagement
Active Learning: motivation
Finding out and exploring
Being involved and concentrating
Playing with what they know
Being willing to ‘have a go’
Keeping on trying
Enjoying achieving what they set out to do
Creating and Thinking Critically: thinking
Having their own ideas
Making links
Choosing ways to do things
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Shared Aims, Roles and Responsibilities
As a Pre-School working within the EYFS we are committed to working in partnership with
you. As parents, you know and understand your child more than anyone else and we believe
that our provision can only be improved with your input. We hope that we will be able to
form strong relationships with you built on trust and respect so that we can work together
to give your child the best possible experiences.
Kiln Hill Pre-School aims to:
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Provide high quality care and education for children primarily below statutory
school age;
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Work in partnership with parents to help children to learn and to develop;
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Add to the life and well-being of its local community;
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Offer the children and their parents a service which promotes equality, and
values diversity.
Parents:
All parents are regarded as members who have full participatory rights. These include a
right to be:
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valued and respected;
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involved;
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kept informed;
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included at all levels;
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consulted;
We respect parents as their child’s first and most important carers and educators:
 We engage in an ongoing dialogue with parents to improve our knowledge of the
needs of their child;
 We provide written information to parents to update and to inform them and ensure
that they understand this;
 We try to take part in community activities where possible;
 We hope that parents will build friendships with others in the setting;
 We provide opportunities for parents to contribute their own skills, knowledge and
interests to the activities of the group;
 We aim to hold meetings at times and in venues which are accessible for all;
 We inform all parents of the systems for registering queries, complaints or
suggestions;
 We encourage all parents to be part of the management of the setting;
 We seek the opinion of parents about change and provision for support through
questionnaires and through conversation.
We also depend on the good will of parents and their involvement to keep improving,
learning and growing.
Membership of the setting therefore carries expectations on
parents for their support and commitment.
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Your Child’s Experience
Kiln Hill Pre-School timetables and routines:
Our setting believes that care and education are equally important in the experiences
which we offer your children. The routines and activities that make up the session are
provided in order to help the children feel safe and secure, feel that they are part of a
social group and provide a stimulating learning environment.
A typical morning session usually follows this routine:
8.45 – 9.00:
9.00 - 9.20:
9.20 – 11.20:
11.20 – 11.30:
11.30 – 11.45:
11.45:
Children arrive, opportunity to talk to parents. Children self register
Registration, discussion of the date, weather and available resources
Chance for children to discuss news and share in a song or rhyme
Free play indoors and outdoors and an art/craft activity
This also incorporates our snack bar which is open from 10.00 – 11.00
Tidy up time
Story and singing rhymes and smiley stamp reward
Children depart, opportunity to talk to parents.
Afternoon sessions are also 3 hours long and follow a similar timetable.
Outdoor activities contribute to children's health, their physical development and their
knowledge of the world around them. The children have the opportunity, and are
encouraged, to take part in outdoor child- chosen and adult-led activities every day.
Snacks:
Our Pre-School makes snack time a social time in which small groups of children can eat
together. Your child will receive healthy and nutritious food each day for their snack and
will have either milk or water to drink. Special dietary needs should be identified when
your child joins us and we will do our best to meet these needs. In order to provide these
snacks we ask for a small donation.
As part of Kiln Hill Pre-School your child will be:
 in a safe and stimulating environment;
 given generous care and attention due to the high ratio of adults to children;
 given the chance to interact with other children and adults, playing, working and
learning together;
 helped to take forward their learning and development;
 with a personal key worker and a member of a specific group;
 supported to make appropriate progress with the help of their key worker, other
staff, parents and peers;
 in a learning environment which sees parents as partners in helping your child learn
and develop.
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Our Pre-School Poem
Say hello and feel welcome, greeted with a smile.
Share in registration; we’re here to play for a while.
Explore the activities, the games, books and toys.
Play, learn and laugh with the other girls and boys.
Play inside and outside (in the rain, snow and sun).
Share stories, songs and rhymes together, all joining in the fun.
Enjoy the healthy foods we eat, sitting all together.
Side by side, learning, sharing; we could be friends forever.
Just time for one more story,
A library book to borrow.
It will soon be time to go home once more,
Will we all come back tomorrow?
©Trudy Whitehead
Our Pre-School Song
(To the tune of ‘5 Little Ducks’)
Red, Green, Yellow, and Orange and Blue
Are the colours at caterpillar school
We all love to come and play
At Kiln Hill Pre-School everyday
©Trudy Whitehead
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Our Vision
We would like to share with everyone how we see ourselves as a pre-school
and a fundamental part of you and your child’s life for the time that you are
with us. With this in mind we have produced a short statement of our vision
and enthusiasm for what we do and what we stand for at Kiln Hill:
At Kiln Hill Pre-School Ltd we are proud of our strong and close staff team.
We are united in our goal for your children to have as rewarding a time with
us as we have with them.
At Kiln Hill Pre-School Ltd we L.E.A.R.N.
We
Love
working with all our children, helping them to learn and develop
through play.
We
Enjoy building strong friendships with al our children and their families.
We
Aim to support all our children and their families in any way we can.
We try to
Respond to queries, questions and comments from our children and
their families appropriately, adequately and sensitively.
We
Nurture happiness, curiosity and a sense of adventure in all our children,
qualities that we truly believe all children should be enabled to achieve.
Welcome to Kiln Hill Pre-School Ltd.
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