Anna-Ca-Soo Day Nursery
The Nursery opened on July 11th 2000. Anna, the nurseries proprietor and manager gained a level three qualification in childcare in 1982. Anna, a Mother of three, has worked in a wide range of Early Years settings and so brings a wealth of experience to her own nursery. Anna’s vision of a homely nursery providing care that meets the individual needs of all children has been achieved through much hard work and dedication and the safe recruitment of skilled, caring and knowledgeable staff.
Learning and development is supported through planned, purposeful play and through a mix of adult-led and child-led activity. Play is essential to children’s development.
Children have access to a range of continuous quality resources, which allows them to learn through physical and mental challenges. Resources are not confined to specific areas and children are given time and space to explore them.
At Anna Ca Soo we have a large established secure rear garden which the children have access to throughout the day. Free access between the indoors and outdoors enables children to make choices, follow their interests, forge links between their learning and develop ideas over time. The garden provides children with a wide range of non-specific and natural play resources, such as, ropes, drapes, crates, planks, wooden blocks, tyres, boxes, sand, mud, twigs and leaves.
Our planning is very flexible thus allowing children’s individual routines to be followed. Much of the play is child initiated and adult supported. The practitioners are skilled in supporting children’s learning through appropriate interactions, thus building and extending on children’s ideas. This constitutes purposeful learning.
Records of achievements (ROA’s) are portfolios of children’s individual achievements documented through observations, photos and examples of work. The regular sharing of the ROA’s with parent and the children is an opportunity to celebrate children’s achievements. Children’s involvement in the choosing of work for their portfolio is an ongoing process.
The Nursery follows the Statutory Framework (2012) which are legal requirements the nursery must follow.
Parents as Partners
Parents are children’s first and most enduring educators. When parents and practitioners work together in early years settings, it has a positive impact on children’s learning and development (The Early Years Foundation stage, 2008)
We believe that children benefit the most when parent and staff work together in partnership to ensure quality care and learning for the children. The nursery team welcomes parents as partners a relationship built on trust and understanding. It is important that we, as carers, are able to support parents in an open and sensitive manner. A two way sharing of information is key to this.
