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Footsteps Nursery
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Footsteps Nursery
- Nursery
- Castle Donington DE74 2NL
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| The quality of education | Good |
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Overall effectiveness at previous inspection | Inadequate |
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Indoor and Outdoor Facilities: Children spend much of their time outside at this nursery. Staff provide children with lots of opportunities to be active and to develop their physical skills. They use a traffic light system to help children to practise to stop and start as they move around on a variety of ride-on toys. Children take turns to balance and move their bodies across an obstacle course.
Activities: Staff provide children with opportunities to use their imagination and mathematical skills in activities such as role-play in a farm shop. Children are making good progress in their mathematical skills.
Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children have many opportunities to develop their communication and language skills, love for books, and teamwork skills.
Communication: Partnership with parents is a key strength of the nursery. Leaders actively seek the views of parents, and any feedback is quickly acted on. Parents feel fully included in their children's learning.
Community Building: Staff send home activity bags for children to enjoy with their families, helping to extend children's learning at home.
Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff morale is high. They state that they are very happy in their roles and comment on how well leaders support them professionally and personally.
Safeguarding Training: All staff receive regular safeguarding training and have a good understanding of how to recognise children who may be at risk of harm or abuse.
Play and Learning Integration: Children benefit from the routines that staff put into place and spend much of their time outside, developing their physical skills.
Child Safety Management: They know how to escalate any concerns about children's welfare to the relevant agencies. Staff make sure the premises are secure to ensure that children cannot leave unsupervised.
Teaching Personal Safety: From an early age, staff teach children about keeping safe, including the importance of applying sun cream and wearing a sun hat.
Nutritional Menu: Children are starting to learn the importance of good oral hygiene through activities and regular toothbrushing. However, children are not always encouraged to make healthy drink choices and are given juice throughout the day.
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Footsteps Nursery is a Nursery, Nursery located in Leicestershire, East Midlands.
This nursery accepts children from 0-5 years old.
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is lavishly cared after and given special attention by our personnel, who are all highly qualified. has the opportunity to live, play, and study alongside other kids. builds on what they already know and can do to advance in their learning and development. has a certain key person they may connect with and who will watch over their growth. is situated in an environment where parents are seen as partners who influence the services we provide. The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) establishes guidelines for the education, care, and development of children from birth to age five. Childminders, preschools, nurseries, and school reception classes are all required to adhere to the EYFS, as do all schools and early years providers with an Ofsted registration. The EYFS framework serves as the foundational document for all professionals working in the foundation years and gives parents peace of mind knowing that, no matter where they enrol their child in early education, the same statutory commitments and principles will guide their child's learning and development experience.
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Holidays 2024/25
| Holidays | Date |
|---|---|
| Autumn Half Term Holidays | 21st Oct 2024 - 25th Oct 2024 |
| Winter Holidays | 23rd Dec 2024 - 3rd Jan 2025 |
| Spring Half Term Holidays | 17th Feb 2025 - 21st Feb 2025 |
| Spring Holidays | 14th Apr 2025 - 25th Apr 2025 |
| Summer Half Term Holidays | 26th May 2025 - 30th May 2025 |
| Summer Holidays | 9th Jul 2025 - 24th Aug 2025 |
Terms Dates 2024/25
| Terms | Dates |
|---|---|
| Autumn Term | 27th Aug 2024 - 20th Oct 2024 |
| Autumn Term-2 | 26th Oct 2024 - 22nd Dec 2024 |
| Spring Term | 4th Jan 2025 - 16th Feb 2025 |
| Spring Term-2 | 22nd Feb 2025 - 13th Apr 2025 |
| Summer Term | 26th Apr 2025 - 25th May 2025 |
| Summer Term-2 | 31st May 2025 - 8th Jul 2025 |
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