Glenbrae Children’s Centre
Standards & Quality Report
Session 2015 – 2016
Contents
Our nursery
What is this report about?
How successful are we?
Our Achievements
Promoting Equalities
What’s Next?
Our Nursery
 Glenbrae Children’s Centre is situated in the Strone/Maukinhill area of East Greenock. Our main feeder primary schools
are King’s Oak and All Saints and we have strong links with these schools at transition time and throughout the year.
Places within the nursery are allocated in line with Inverclyde Council’s Admissions policy. We also offer some wrapround
places for children whose parents are in employment, education or training.
 Glenbrae caters for children aged 0 – 12 years.
9 full time equivalent (F.T.E.) places for children aged 0 – 2 years
20 F.T.E. places for children aged 2 – 3 years
30 F.T.E. places for children aged 3 – 5 years
24 places for children aged 5 – 12 years
 The Nursery is staffed by a Head of Centre, a Depute, a Senior Early Years Education & Childcare Officer, an Early
Stages Teacher, 13 Early Years Education & Childcare Officers, 9 full time and 4 job share/part time. We also have 1
Early Years Support Worker, 4 Support Assistants, a Clerical Assistant, a Bus escort/Auxiliary and a Family Support
Worker.
Within the Out of School Care we have 3 staff. Ancillary staff consist of a Caretaker/Driver, 2 Cleaners, a Cook and a
Kitchen Assistant.
 The centre is recognised as a community resource and offers a variety of services/activities to meet the needs of the
community. Centre staff have strong links with a variety of agencies in the community and recognise parents as the prime
educators of their child. This philosophy underpins all our work with families and we aim to:-
o create an atmosphere where parents feel
valued
o develop positive meaningful, relationships
o provide regular opportunities to discuss
children’s progress
o inform parents and where appropriate
consult them about centre matters
o be sensitive and responsive to family needs
The parents room is open every day and is used for Nurturing Sessions/Play Sessions; Parents Group and Bookbug sessions. The
Family Support Worker supports staff with a variety of home link activities and gives support to vulnerable families within and
outwith the Centre.
What is this report about?
The report is to show the developments being made within the nursery.
We use various tools to gather evidence including:Staff/Management meetings
Room meetings
Working groups
Displays of children’s work
Consultation and questionnaires with children/parents
Children’s Profiles
Staff observations
National Document ‘Child at the Centre 2’
Inspection reports
Quality visits from Education Services and Quality Improvement Officer
Priority 1: Staff to gain knowledge of the new Building the Ambition document
which will help them to improve the learning environments and outcomes for
children.
How are we doing?
 Training has been
delivered to staff on
section 6 – What do
children need? and
section 7 – Putting
pedagogy into practice.
 Continuing to work
through the document
with staff.
 A successful transition
evening was held for
parents and children
moving to the 3 – 5
room.
How do we know?
 Staff are beginning to
show a better
understanding of the
importance of good
transitions.
 Very positive feedback
and comments from
What are we going to
do next?
 Further staff
training to embed
Building the
Ambition in
practice.
parents who attended
the evening.
 Staff are more aware of
the impact of
environments on
children’s learning
 Senior staff to
continue to monitor
playroom
environment and
practice
Priority 2: ECO Schools – Staff, children and parents to work towards
gaining Green Flag status.
How are we doing?
 Some good progress
has been made.
 Decision made on the 3
ECO areas.

Litter

School Grounds

Health & Wellbeing
 Eco meetings have
been held with ECO
committee throughout
the year.
 A ‘Green Week’ was
held in the nursery.
 Children have an ECO
song, code & charter.
How do we know?
 An ECO floorbook has
lots of photographic
evidence of work.
 Minutes of ECO meetings
 Evidence around the
nursery.
What are we going to
do next?
 Consolidate the
children’s learning
and determine their
understanding.
 Parents, Staff and
Children are bringing in
recycling materials.
 A Health & Wellbeing
information evening was
held for parents with
positive feedback.
 Work in the garden.
 Apply for Green
Flag.
Priority 3: Peer Assessment - Staff to assess each other’s practice (peer
assessment) which will help to improve outcomes for children.
How are we doing?
 Most staff had the
opportunity to carry
out a peer assessment
visit in another
playroom between
January & March 2016.
How do we know?
 Staff carrying out the
assessment completed
evaluation sheets,
suggesting next steps.
 Verbal feedback from
staff in the playroom
 Staff felt that this
about the peer
What are we going to
do next?
 Continue with
opportunities for
peer assessment
next year.
 Reflect on
was a useful tool in
assessment and how they
evaluations already
helping them to
would take any
improve their practice,
suggestions forward
carried out and
particularly in relation
to outdoor play.
ensure these have
been implemented.
Priority 4: Raising Attainment in Numeracy. Staff will work within the local
cluster group to improve children’s number skills using Numicon resource.
How are we doing?
 All 3-5 staff have
been trained to use
Numicon resource.
 Numicon resources
have been used
successfully with
children within the
nursery.
 A Numicon workshop
was held for parents
and children and a
How do we know?
 Staff training records
 Staff planning records
 Feedback from parents
and children
 All children had the
What are we going to
do next?
 Continue to use the
Numicon resource
as a tool for
improving children’s
opportunity to use the
general maths and
resource and become
number skills with
familiar with it.
particular emphasis
on number
number of parents
recognition and
purchased the
counting skills.
resource to use at
home.
Priority 5: GIRFEC - Staff to become familiar with using new approaches to
ensure we are Getting it Right for Every Child.
How are we doing?
 Staff have an
awareness of some
aspects of GIRFEC.
 Staff are using
wellbeing indicators
within children’s care
and learning update
reports.
 The specific needs of
individual children and
their families are met
within the nursery, as
and when required.
How do we know?
 Staff share information
with parents through wall
displays, leaflets, care &
learning updates.
 The nursery has an
identified GIRFEC
champion within the
staff to share up to date
information.
 Parents provided positive
feedback from a GIRFEC
questionnaire,
What are we going to
do next?
 Further training
for staff, both inhouse and from the
Local Authority.
 Continue to embed
GIRFEC in practice.
 Begin to use new
GIRFEC approach
and paperwork.
Priority 6: Setting the table guidelines – looking at menus for snacks and
lunches within the nursery to ensure children are eating healthily.
How are we doing?
 Menus have been set
using Setting the
Table guidelines.
 Parents are happy with
the new menus.
 Staff have a better
understanding,
through in-house
training, of Setting
the Table guidelines,
including portion size.
How do we know?
 Menus have been
provided to parents
 Parents had taster
What are we going to
do next?
 Re-visit lunch and
sessions at Health &
snack menus to look
Wellbeing evening.
at popularity and
 Staff serving lunch are
now serving more
appropriate portion
sizes.
balance.
 Look at children
making a lunch
choice each morning
to avoid waste.
(also fits with ECO
policy)
Our Achievements
FUN DAY
GREEN WEEK
We had a very
Parents and children
successful fun day
took part in National
when most of the
children and
parents came along
and took part in a
variety of activities
which gave good
family time &
opportunities with
staff
Spring clean week
TRANSITION
and did some litter
We had a successful
transition evening for
children moving from the
2-3 playroom to the 3-5
playroom. Parents were
able to attend , with their
children and meet their
new keyworker and pass
on information about their
child and assist in their
smooth transition.
part of our
picking, which was
application for Green
Flag status.
Our Achievements
Play on Pedals
Nurture sessions
Children from the 3 – 5
Parents were encouraged
playroom took part in the
Play on Pedals programme.
This allowed the children
to use a balance bike and
eventually progress to a 2
wheeler, with no
stabilisers. Children were
presented with
certificates after
successfully completing
the course.
to come in and have one to
one play sessions with
their own child in a
relaxed environment.
Parents were then
provided with resources
and ideas to take away
and do again with their
child at home.
Our Achievements
Parent’s Achievements
Eat Better to Feel
Better
The nursery acheived
funding to have a member
of staff trained as a
community chef and will
provide cooking sessions
for parents within the
centre over a six week
block, starting in
September.
Parents took part in
Heart Start
Fire Safety
Health & Wellbeing
Parent Fundraising
Having raised funds within
the nursery, the parent
group decided that rather
than keep all of the money
raised, they would share
it with some charities
including The Teapot
Trust, The Salvation
Army, Reach for Autism
and Children in Poverty
Inverclyde.
Our Achievements
We took part in the Science Fayre organised by our local cluster group. We demonstrated how children learn
from 3 – 18. Our focus was Space.
The local Cluster group of Schools and Nurseries will be showcasing the learning
at the Scottish Learning Festival in The SECC in September.
Promoting Equalities
 What have we
done in the past
year to promote
equality?
 Fair Trade days were
held within the
nursery where parents
were able to gain
information &
purchase resources.
 Staff have looked at
the UNCRC with the
children.
 The principles of
GIRFEC underpin our
practice.
What measures do we
have in place to support
and protect individuals?
 Child Protection Policy
and Procedures
 Annual in-service training
for all staff on Child
Protection
 Staged assessment and
What have we done to
foster good relations
and promote
tolerance?
 Raising awareness of
GIRFEC with staff and
parents.
 Stay and play days give
parents the
intervention procedures
opportunity to work
in place.
alongside staff and
 Working alongside
develop their own skills
professionals from other
to support their child’s
agencies to support
learning.
children and families.
What’s Next?
Priority 1
Priority 4
Getting it Right for
UNCRC
Every Child
To implement the new
authority GIRFEC
pathway levels and
Priority 2
Building the Ambition
Priority 3
Raising attainment in
Numeracy
use appropiate
Rights of the child
To embed children’s
rights as part of the
planning process
across the nursery.
strategies to identify
Further training for
the wellbeing needs
staff on Building the
To work with the
Develop a booklet for
of individual children.
Ambition which will
local cluster group to
all children to make
allow staff to look at
further improve
about their rights
GIRFEC and working
children’s numeracy
and a parent leaflet
with children and
skills using Numicon
about UNCRC within
families to improve
and other resources.
the nursery and
Training for staff.
outcomes for
children.
OOSC.