Who are we?
Background Information
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Kelly Street Children’s Centre is located in two separate buildings.
The main building is situated at 2 Kelly Street, Greenock and the campus is within
St Mary’s Primary School.
The centre provides a service for children aged 3 to 5 years with a combined
capacity of 80 children at each session a.m. and p.m.
There are 17 early years members of staff which include Head, Depute, 11 Early
Years Education & Child Care Officers, 1 Peripatetic Teacher. 3 Early Years Support
Assistants.
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The centre offers a limited wrapround facility for parents.
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The centre enjoys excellent relationships with local primary schools.
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We pride ourselves with the links we have with external agencies and the wider
community.
Parents are involved in many activities e.g. developing policies, organising resources
to support the curriculum and monitoring & evaluating the service.
What is this all about?
The Process of Self-Evaluation, Involvement & Evidence
Statement on the process of self-evaluation, involvement of stakeholders and sources of
evidence
The process for self-evaluation at Kelly Street Children’s Centre involves all stakeholders.
Parents are encouraged to be actively involved at the beginning of each session and training is given to
parents to help support them in this process. All staff are engaged in professional discussion and
reflection and are timetabled along with parents and children to look at specific performance
indicators (Child at the Centre – HMI Inspector of Education 2007) which then enables us to identify
areas for development and improvement and promote innovative practice.
The tools we use to gather evidence include:
Quality indicators which highlight strengths and weaknesses
Observation of children’s learning planning sheets
Photographs of children’s success and achievements
Video footage
Staff, parents and visiting agencies questionnaires
Comments from children’s learning stories, comments made by parents at settling in meetings,
suggestions & comments made by parents in daily comments box.
Inspection reports from Care Inspectorate, HMIe, Quality Visits from the Authority
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Last year, Kelly Street Children’s Centre’s priorities for development were:
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Embed the centre’s vision, values and aims in all activities
Further develop effective links with colleagues/schools
Develop and extend child/parent workshops
Further develop consultation with children
How successful are we?
Priorities
• Priority 1 Embed the centre’s vision, values and aims in all activities
How are we doing?
How do we know?
All staff and children are now clear on the
centre’s vision & values. The centre now has
a vision & values song which we all sing at the
start of each session.
Our vision & values song is now embedded into
our daily routine. All children are encouraged
to play, share, grow, laugh and learn
throughout all nursery activities.
What are we going to do now?
We will continue to embed our vision and
values song throughout our daily routine. We
will ensure that all new staff and children are
familiar with this procedure. We will
continue to ensure that all parents are made
aware of our vision and values song as part of
the enrolment process.
• Priority 2 Further develop effective links with colleagues/schools
How are we doing?
Transitions are an integral part of the nursery's daily routine.
We are continuing to form excellent relationships with our local
primary schools to support children and parents during this
important time.
How do we know?
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Positive feedback from colleagues re school and nursery visits
Positive feedback from parents transition questionnaires
Children more confident attending transition days at school.
Transition Play Day in The Annexe Park during summer break
Individual Transition Support Books for children.
Parent’s Transition Meetings
Collaborate with NQT’s at Clydeview Academy Fairtrade Day
What are we going to do now?
We are continuing to improve in our transitions
throughout the year. We are developing new
transition procedures from home – nursery,
nursery – nursery and nursery – school.
Introduce children’s handbook to support
children starting nursery and also introduce a
transition co-ordinator.
Introduce our Twitter account.
• Priority 3 Develop and extend child/parent workshops
How are we doing?
The centre is continuing to introduce new children/parent workshops showcasing what children
have been learning.
How do we know?
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Parent/child Morton Football Workshop
Parent/child Jumpin’ Jax Sponsor
Parent/child Playdough Workshop
Parent/child Fundraiser for Nepal
Parent/child Book Bug Sessions
What are we going to do now?
We will continue to work collaboratively with our parents to further develop child/parents
workshops in all areas of the curriculum.
• Priority 4 Further develop consultation with children
How are we doing?
The children are continuing to have excellent experiences and opportunities within the
centre. Staff consult with children consistently throughout all areas of the nursery.
How do we know?
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Staff
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Staff
consult with
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children regarding topics e.g. exit passes
children regarding resources
children regarding purchasing new equipment
children regarding likes and dislikes of the nursery
What are we going to do now?
Continue to further develop consultation with children
Introduce children’s working groups to fully involve children in the life of the centre
Consult with children to develop their own handbook
How we promote equality within our centre.
What have we done in the last year to promote equality
We place equality at the heart of everything we do.
We aim to promote a culture in which equality of opportunity exists
for all.
Equality permeates our curriculum and underpins all our policies and
practices in terms of access to education for all.
What measures do we have in place to support and protect
individuals?
 We operate Inverclyde Council's Child Protection Policies &
Procedures within the centre, ensuring all families have opportunity
to be included and be heard.
What have we done to foster good relations and promote tolerance?
 We promote good relationships between people of different groups
whatever their race, gender, disability, age, religion and belief or
sexual orientation.
We sing about equality as part of our Vision & Values Song which we sing daily.
How successful are we?
Achievements
The children, parents and staff participated in a variety of successful events throughout the year,
some of the highlights are recorded below.
Go Yellow Day
2nd June 2015
Children enjoyed taking
part in our Go Yellow Day
Sponsored Jumpin Jax
12th December 2014
All children and
parent’s participated in
a sponsored Jumpin
Jax held at Dazzle
Dance Studio
Fairtrade Fun Day
12th June 2015
Our children were invited to take part in
This exciting event at Clydeview Academy.
They all enjoyed the experience.
Nepal Charity Event
4 May 2014
Our caring nursery children held a relief
effort to help children in earthquake hit
Nepal.
Morton Community Trust
Physical Activity Programme
The children have fun learning physical skills
with the Morton Community Trust Team
Rotary Club Shoebox Appeal
November 2014
Children and Parents participated in our
shoebox appeal. In aid of providing children of
Lasi, in north-east Romania with Christmas
gifts
What’s Next? -
Summary of Priorities for Session 2015-2016
Within the next nursery year, our specific development aims tied to our Strategic Improvement Plan
Year 1 are as follows:
Achieving
Reviewing procedures for self-evaluation
Planning
Numeracy
Literacy
Develop ICT Skills throughout the establishment
Nurtured
Staged Intervention
Transitions from home to nursery
Healthy
Developing outdoor learning
Active
Develop Physical Programme
Safe
Care Plans
GIRFEC Named Person
Risk Matrix (Seemis)
Respected
Development of the children’s voice within the nursery
Included
Child centred ethos – Working groups for all
Transition
Responsible
Pupil Council, Mini Management
Greater Personalisation and choice for children within the curriculum