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Jelli Tots Nursery LTD
Christchurch Hall, Christchurch Ave, London NW6 7BJ
020 8451 5477
www.jellitotsnursery.co.uk
Initial Registration form
Starting date required……………………
Nursery Education Grant (NEG) space only (15 hours per week for 38 weeks per year)
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Private space deposit enclosed £100 Yes/No
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Jelli Tots Nursery LTD
Outstanding childcare provision
Christchurch Hall
Christchurch Ave
NW6 7BJ
020 8451 5477
[email protected]
www.jellitotsnursery.co.uk
Prospectus
I-Can Early talk enhanced accredited
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Our Mission Statement
At Jelli Tots Nursery we are committed to providing an inclusive environment in
which all children can thrive and develop to their full potential.
Our staff team aim to offer a friendly and welcoming presence for children, parents
and visitors. Practitioners are well qualified and committed to advancing their skills
and knowledge through reflective practice and continuous professional development.
They develop close relationships with children; ensuring that each child’s physical,
emotional and educational needs are catered for.
We recognise parents as their child’s first and most enduring educators, and
therefore see it as a priority to develop and maintain strong partnerships; sharing
and discussing their child’s experiences and development at home and within the
setting. We maintain an ‘open-door’ policy, where parents are welcomed into the
nursery.
We aim to offer an exciting and stimulating learning environment. Children learn
through a range of child-initiated and adult-led activities, and open-ended resources
are widely used to capture children’s interest and imagination. Our practitioners
support and monitor children’s progress; carefully planning for their next steps and
helping them to become confident to try out new things and take risks in their
learning.
We take a holistic approach to children’s development; looking at their well-being,
involvement, physical needs and social skills in addition to their academic progress.
Our curriculum plans are based upon children’s own ideas and interests; helping
them to enjoy their time at nursery and become active and enthusiastic learners.
‘Staff are enthusiastic in their teaching and children are engaged and eager to learn.
Children make excellent progress in all areas of Early Years Foundation Stage’.
Ofsted report (2015)
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Thank you for enquiring about Jelli Tots Nursery. This booklet Contains all of the
information that we feel you will need in order to decide whether Jelli tots is the
right place to send your child. However, if you require any further information,
please do not hesitate to call us.
Partnership with Parents:
At jelli Tots we are committed to creating and maintaining partnerships between
parents and members of staff. Our recent OFSTED report commented
‘Parents are fully involved in their children's learning and their partnership with the
nursery is exceptional.
We recognise and value the role of parents in their child’s education and ensure that
parents are informed about the nursery curriculum, events and activities through
newsletters, notices, the nursery website and our texting system.
The relationship between the home and setting begins with a home visit before your
child starts at Jelli tots. The manager and your child’s key worker will visit you to
exchange information and begin to get know your child. Parents are given an
information booklet which provides copies of key policies and other relevant
information and parents are asked to fill in a form about their child in order for us to
plan appropriate experiences for them when they start at nursery.
Parents are encouraged to play an active role in their child’s learning by taking an
interest in our activities and topics and linking these to activities and discussions at
home. Children’s individual profile books are kept in their trays and can be taken
home on a Friday and returned to the nursery on a Monday. Parents are invited to
add photographs, comments observations and anything else that is relevant to keep
staff informed of their child’s learning and interests outside of nursery.
Parents are welcome to read with the children, join in with activities such as cooking,
art, gardening and cultural events, to help on trips, make signs in their home
languages for us to display and are invited to have breakfast with us every term. Our
parent’s forum meet regularly to discuss any topical issues arising.
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Timetable
9.00am- Welcome children, parents and carers.
Child Led Play - Adults supporting children’s interests and learning
9.30am Parents and carers leave/garden open
9.30-10.30- Snack bar open
10.40am- Tidy up time
11.00am- Together time
11.05am- Key group together time (Children are encouraged to take
part in an adult led activity lasting approximately 20 minutes)
11.30am- Outdoor play
12.10pm- Story time
12.30pm- End of morning session- Home time/lunch time
1.15pm- Quiet play time while children finish their lunches
1.30pm- Child led play with an adult led activity on offer/children sleep
2.25pm- Tidy up time
2.35pm- Story time
3.00pm- Goodbye song and home time
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Staff
Wendy Kelly- Nursery Manager/Director
Qualifications: BA hons in Educational Studies and early Years, NNEB Diploma, Diploma in In Service Education
in Effective Early Learning
Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCo), Advanced SENCo Training/Makaton, First Aid at Work
Maggie Harris- Deputy manager- Child Protection Officer
Qualifications: CACHE Diploma in Childcare and Education Level 3
Currently studying for a foundation degree in Early Years Education
First Aid at Work
Josie Crawford- Deputy Manager- Health and safety officer
Qualifications: CACHE Level 3 diploma for the children and young people workforce
Currently studying for a foundation degree in Early Years Education
Paediatric first Aid
Christina Lamb- Nursery Practitioner -Language group co-ordinator
Qualifications: Diploma in Childcare and Education level 3
Paediatric first Aid, Makaton
Betty Mitchell- Nursery Practitioner
Qualifications: NVQ3 in Early Years Care and Education
First Aid
Naudia Davis- Nursery Practitioner
Qualifications: CACHE diploma level 3
Paediatric first Aid
Albana Alushaj- Nursery Practitioner
Cache level 3 certificate in Childcare and education
Food hygiene, Paediatric first Aid, Makaton
Sakinah Muhammad- Nursery Practitioner
Cache level 3 certificate in Childcare and education
Paediatric first Aid, Makaton
Colleen Clapham – SEN support worker
Cache level 3 diploma in Childcare and education
Paediatric first Aid, Makaton, Autism, adult/child interaction, sensory diets.
Jenny Allen
Cache level three certificate Nanny Training: Developing Core Skills and Knowledge
First aid for child-carers
Admira Beqaj- Lunch time supervisor
Cache level 2 certificate in childcare and education
Volunteers/cover Staff: Gary Devlin- City and Guilds Certificate in caring for children
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Key Persons:
This begins prior to children’s admission when your child would be allocated to a member of
staff who will act as their key person. You will be given a small booklet to fill in information
about your child, which can be discussed during the home visit.
Your child’s key person will bring a bag of toys to the home visit and spend approximately
30-45 minutes playing and interacting alongside your child. Parents have welcomed this and
report that home visits work extremely well. This gives your child an opportunity bond with
their key worker, which helps with the settling in process. You will also be invited to visit the
setting for one morning which allows your child to become familiar with the nursery
environment and routine.
Key persons play an important role in the care and well-being of their key children and work
together with parents to provide continuity of care between the home and setting. They
monitor the progress of each child, using observations to inform curriculum planning and
keep children’s developmental profiles up to date. We have an open door policy and
parents are welcome to spend the first thirty minutes of the session in the nursery with their
child, which allows time to exchange information, settle your child into an activity and get to
know your child’s key person.
Key groups include children of a similar age and have
between three and seven children. We endeavour to keep
children in the same key group throughout their time at Jelli
Tots. This helps to create a strong bond and sense of
belonging between adults and children in the group. Children
have an allocated time each day where they spend time in
their key groups and are encouraged to join in with an adult
planned activity.
The Nursery Curriculum
The nursery promotes children’s learning through child led play with opportunities for
children to participate in adult planned activities and time allocated for small group sessions.
Adults scaffold children’s learning by interacting during self-initiated play, providing
appropriate resources to extend children’s interests and planning activities that are
differentiated to meet individual needs. Our Ofsted report highlights that the children are
“Children are highly motivated and explore an extensive range of challenging
learning experiences and activities”.
The nursery is divided up into several ‘workshop’ areas, for example the literacy area,
creative arts and crafts area. These are stocked with a range of resources and equipment,
which the children can access, allowing them to become independent learners.
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Staff plan activities in response to children’s interests and
stages of development, our planning covers themes and
topics that support all areas of learning. Free-flow activities
encourage children to exercise choice and explore both
indoors and outside. To compliment this, the nursery plans
outings and local walks, as well as encouraging visits to the
setting by members of the local community.
The curriculum
We follow the Development Matters in the Early Years Foundation Stage as guidance to
support each child’s learning and development. This is divided into seven areas which are all
interconnected. The three Prime areas of learning are fundamental and work together to
support learning in all other areas. There are also four specific areas which include essential
skills and knowledge for children.
PRIME AREAS
Personal, Social and Emotional Development -Making relationships, selfconfidence, self –awareness and managing feelings and behaviour
This area of learning is about emotional wellbeing, knowing who you are,
where you fit in and feeling good about yourself. It is also about developing
respect for others, social competence and a positive disposition towards
learning.
Communication and Language- Listening and attention, understanding and Speaking
This area of learning relies on becoming competent in a number of key skills, together with
the confidence, opportunity and dispositions to use them. This
area of learning includes
 Listening to stories and others in small groups or one to
one
 Maintain attention, follow instructions
 Language for communication
 Recognising familiar sounds, Linking sounds to letters
(phonics)
 Asking questions, hold a conversation, use language to share thoughts, feelings and
ideas
Physical Development Moving and handling, Health and self-care
This area of learning concentrates on:
 Fine motor skills, through activities such as drawing, puzzles,
threading and cutting
 Gross motor skill, such as balancing, climbing, jumping, throwing and
spatial awareness
 Health and bodily awareness
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Specific Areas
Mathematics- Numbers, Shape, space and measure
This area of learning involves becoming competent and confident in learning and using key
skills in the following areas:
 Numbers for counting and as labels
 Calculating
 Shapes and patterns
 Sorting, ordering, sequencing, grouping
 Size, length, height and weight
Understanding of the world- People and communities, Technology, The world
This area forms the foundation for later work in science, design and technology, history,
geography and information and communication technology. It introduces concepts such as:
 Exploration and investigation
 ICT
 Time: finding out about events past and present in their own
lives and those of others.
 Place: finding out about the world around them.
 Communities and cultures
Expressive Arts and Design-Being imaginative, Exploring and using media and materials
This area of learning concentrates on creativity through:
 Creative music and dance
 Being creative; responding to experiences, expressing and communicating ideas
 Designing and making, using tolls for a purpose
 Being Imaginative
Literacy- Reading and writing
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Enjoys stories , songs and poems
Enjoy rhyming and rhythmic activities
Makes marks and ascribes meaning to these
Link letters to sounds
Outdoor Play
This forms an important part of the nursery curriculum, the nursery
operates a ‘free-flow’ system, allowing children access to
the garden for most of the morning session. Children have
access to a wide range of equipment outdoors and activities
are planned both indoors and outside to support children’s
learning and development.
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On alternate weeks, children have the opportunity to take part in Yoga
sessions, led by a teacher from The Special Yoga Centre and music and
drama, led by ‘Gymboree’. The older children have weekly French classes
where they learn songs, rhymes, words and phrases. Parents are asked
to make a contribution of £10 per month towards these activities.
Jelli Tots nursery consults with parents, staff and children each year on their views about
the nursery. This is used, along with data collected through observations of children and
staff, to review all aspects of the setting and to set targets for development and
improvement.
In March 2012 the nursery gained an enhanced ICAN accreditation from the ICAN charity.
The early talk accreditation recognises settings which have undertaken training to develop
their skills and knowledge of communication development, and which show good practice in
promoting speech, language and communication development in children. Our latest Ofsted
report states
‘There is a strong focus on supporting speech and language. Sessions are
delivered to children with an identified need and for those who would benefit from
extra support’.
Behaviour
At Jelli Tots we believe that children and adults flourish best in an environment where
expectations are clear. We use a strategy called conflict resolution. We use a strategy called
conflict resolution Our aim is to work towards a situation in which children can develop selfdiscipline and self-esteem in an atmosphere of mutual respect and encouragement. We
support children’s interactions and play by encouraging turn taking, sharing and waiting.
Staff role model expected behaviour and phrases to teach children the language that they
need to use in particular situations.
Ofsted commented
‘Children are confident and work extremely well together, taking turns and sharing.
Behaviour is exemplary’.
The nursery has its own set of rules, which children are encouraged to follow and contribute
to, these are:
We are kind to each other
We listen to each other
We share and take turns
We walk in the nursery
We look after our toys and books
We all help to tidy up
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Admissions policy
At Jelli Tots we are committed to equal opportunities, this extends to our admissions policy
which does not discriminate against, ethnic, social, family or cultural background, gender,
religion or ability.
The nursery offers:
Part time spaces (Monday to Friday 9am to 12.30pm).
Full time spaces (Monday to Friday, 9am to 3pm). Children wanting three or more
afternoons will be placed on the full time list.
These run as two separate waiting lists and spaces are allocated in accordance to our
admissions policy depending on when the application was received, availability within each
key group, extenuating family circumstances and children who have siblings already with us.
If you are unsure whether you require afternoon sessions or not, please apply only for a
part time place as you will be expected to pay fees for all the hours you have selected.
Parents are required to complete an initial registration form, stating the date they wish their
child to start at Jelli Tots. If you are applying for a private nursery space you will need to
include a deposit of £100. If we are unable to offer you a space by the requested date, you
will have the choice of remaining on the waiting list or having your deposit returned to you.
However if you turn down a space offered to you, your deposit will be retained by the
nursery.
Three and four year old children applying for Nursery education grant (NEG) places only: 15
hours per week for 38 weeks per year, which are funded by the local authority do not need
to include a deposit. Please note that children will be collected at 12pm and will only attend
for the weeks covered by the grant.
Jelli Tots nursery will apply for the NEG grant for all children the term after their third
birthday. Children who are attending jelli Tots nursery in a private space will have their fees
reduced accordingly, in respect of the hours that they attend in addition to the 15 hours
covered by the grant.
On acceptance of a private nursery space parents are required to pay for four weeks of
nursery fees in advance, to secure their space.
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Terms and conditions
1. No deposit is required if registering only for a NEG space. A £100 registration fee is payable to have your
child’s name placed on the nursery waiting list for private nursery spaces. This is non-refundable and will be
retained as a deposit, throughout your child’s time at jelli Tots. £20 will be charged when they start to provide
a Jelli Tots bag and profile folder. If you apply for a full time space and decide that you want to change to
mornings only, your offer will be withdrawn and your child’s name placed on the part time waiting list. One
terms notice, in writing is required if you wish to change your hours or want to give notice that your child is
leaving the setting, fees will be payable for the whole of this period.
2. Fees will be charged as follows:
£125 per week (Monday to Friday) 9am – 12.30pm
£17.50 for each afternoon 12.30pm-3pm
Full time £212.50 per week
PLEASE NOTE: Afternoons are only available as extensions of morning sessions and not as afternoon only
sessions.
3. When you accept a place for your child at Jelli Tots, you will be required to pay four weeks fees in advance, if
at a later date you decline the space, the nursery will retain these fees. Parents will then be invoiced for
payment of fees every four weeks. These are payable in advance and should be submitted promptly on receipt
of invoice, payment is required for each week that the nursery is open. Cheques should be made payable to
‘Jelli Tots nursery Ltd’. Returned cheques will incur a charge of £10 to cover bank charges.
4. There will be no reduction in fees if children are absent for any reason, including sickness and family
holidays. Children are not allowed to attend nursery if they are unwell or suffering from a contagious condition
such as conjunctivitis, please see our sickness policy for further information. Please inform the nursery
manager if your child is absent.
5. All children aged three and four will receive the nursery education grant, beginning the term after their third
birthday. For further information please speak to the nursery manager.
6. The nursery will be closed for six weeks each year as follows:
 1 week at Christmas
 1 week in the spring
 4 weeks in August
No fees will be charged for these six weeks but fees are payable for all other days including bank holidays and inset days
7. The nursery will close for all official bank holidays and up to four days per years for inset training, normal
fees will apply on these days. If the nursery is forced to close due to unforeseen circumstances e.g. power
failure or severe weather conditions we will charge fees for the first 24 hours.
8. Children should arrive at 9am and no later than 9.20am, unless prior arrangements have been made with
nursery staff. Please inform the nursery staff if your child is absent for any reason.
9. A member of staff will sign your child in and out of the nursery each day. If you arrive late please inform a
member of staff and ensure that your child is signed in before you leave. Parents and carers must ensure that
they inform a member of staff when they are leaving the nursery and ensure that the door is locked behind
them.
10. If you are late collecting your child at the end of a session you will be liable to pay a charge of £5 for every
10 minutes. This will be added onto your fees.
11. Acceptance into the nursery is on the condition that parents and carers agree to abide by these terms and
conditions and the policies and procedures of Jelli Tots nursery.
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