Working together

Working in partnership with you

“Parents are exceptionally well consulted on their children's development. Outstanding partnerships between parents, other early years providers and agencies help ensure that children's needs are met and their protection is assured.” Ofsted inspector

We work with parents to ensure each individual child has the most effective learning experience. Sharing information with you gives peace of mind knowing that whilst apart, your child is safe, happy and receiving a solid foundation for their education. As parents you are your child’s first teacher and the success of our curriculum is dependent on a close relationship between us, as teachers and you as parents. Our parents are all welcome in our nurseries through our open door policy to come in and speak to your child’s Key Teacher or the Head-teacher to discuss your child’s progress and development.

We use a secure online platform called Blossom to record the development of your child and suggest next steps for our practitioners. It lets us better track and understand your child’s learning as well as build strong, trusting parent partnerships by sharing their development with you so you can be more involved in your child’s journey through nursery with us.

Knowing your child

Our staff here love using Blossom as it reduces paper work so they can spend more time with children. By creating higher quality observations and linking them to the EYFS framework we track and monitor children’s progress enabling a greater understanding of your child’s learning and development.

Teachers complete detailed transition files for children that are leaving to attend primary school; this means that their new teachers are aware of the stages of development your child has reached when they start school.

Monitoring progress

It is important to monitor the growth and development of your child on an on-going basis. Observations form an important part of your child’s portfolio and are recorded for each child by their key teacher.

We share your child’s progress with you regularly, keeping you updated and informed about next steps. As a parent, you can contribute by sending in your own observations and notes from home so that we can build on this learning at nursery. You can also see formative reports of your child and add in your own comments.

Staying connected

All our parents are given many opportunities to attend coffee mornings, social events and various workshops such as language and behaviour management, giving you the guidance to help you to support your child in the best possible way. Every term, parents are provided with an informative newsletter and welcomed into our nurseries so we can share all our exciting news and updates.

Through Blossom, we share diary timelines of your child’s activities at nursery so that you can cherish those golden moments of your child here.

Security

Security is of key concern to us and Blossom takes its security measures very seriously. We work together with Blossom to ensure complete safeguarding. Your data is stored and backed up frequently on cloud-based secured servers so it can never be lost. All passwords are encrypted so only you as parents and us as your child’s nursery have access to it. Blossom gives us control for safeguarding children within our nursery through allowing access to the platform on authorised devices only.

More information can be found on their website.

Parent Testimonials

“As a working mother, I am always in a rush. The simple layout of the daily diaries by Blossom means that I can see at a quick glance the day my little man has had. A fantastic way to relay information about my son's day and the ease at which I can see everything is wonderful. The simplicity is pure genius. I love it."

“I think Blossom is great, you get a timeline of when they start nursery and a breakdown on what the child has been doing. What is even more great is the photos that get uploaded."