St Edmund’s Nursery School/Children’s Centre

Nursery School Closure Dates

Re-open Tuesday 4th September 2012

Half-term
Close Friday 26th October
Re-open Tuesday 6th November

Christmas
(Nursery)
Close Friday 21st December
Re-open Monday 7th January 2013

Half-term
Close Thursday 14th February
Re-open Monday 25th February

Easter
Close Thursday 28th March
Re-open Monday 15th April

May Day
Close Thursday 2nd May
Re-open Wednesday 8th May

Spring Bank
Close Friday 24th May
Re-open Monday 3rd June

Summer Holiday
Wednesday 24th July

Nursery & Children’s Centre for Training Days on:
Monday 3rd September 2012
Monday 5th November 2012
Friday 15th February 2013
Tuesday 7th May 2013
Thursday 27th June 2013

Extended Provision Holidays
Bank Holidays
Tuesday 25th December 2012
Wednesday 26th December 2012
Tuesday 1st January 2013
Friday 29th March 2013
Monday 1st April 2013
Monday 6th May 2013
Monday 27th May 2013
Monday 26th August 2013

Christmas Holidays
Friday 21st December 2012 – Thursday 3rd January 2013

Training Days
Monday 3rd September 2012
Monday 5th November 2012
Friday 15th February 2013
Tuesday 7th May 2013
Thursday 27th June 2013

Categories: Holiday Schedule | Tags: dates > holidays

SEN Admissions:

Children with complex needs are referred for additional support within the Nursery by Bradford’s Early Years Inclusion Panel. Parents can also request places directly. We are committed to ensuring equal opportunities for admission and access to all areas of the curriculum for all children, in line with the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001. Our school/centre is fully accessible with lift facilities to the first floor. Throughout the building there are adult accessible toilets whilst children have facilities within the Hygiene room

SEN Policy and Equality:

In May 2010 we were awarded the Gold Quality Mark for Inclusion. This was achieved through a real team effort and everyone contributing to the production of two files reflecting all the inclusive practice that exists within the centre. We are looking forward to being presented with our award in the Autumn.

Staff continue to increase their knowledge and expertise through relevant training sessions providers by Health or Education.

Categories: Specialist Provision | Tags: SEN > special education needs

“St Edmund‘s Children‘s Centre is at the heart of its community and is extremely successful, providing an outstanding quality of service for all its children and families. The centre is exceptionally well led, with outstanding teamwork leading to excellent provision for families. Responsibilities are distributed across the staff team, which ensures that each member of staff plays an important part in the children‘s centre and its delivery of a range of excellent services. Many of the staff are former centre users, volunteers or students and they provide excellent role models for their community. Their enthusiasm, professionalism, commitment and dedication to raising standards are exemplary.”
St Edmund‘s Children‘s Centre Inspection Nov 2011

Who would have thought that since the last newsletter we would have had two inspections!

The Christmas holidays are always a special time for me and my family, we get to spend some precious time together watching films, going for walks and playing silly games! This Christmas was even more special knowing that Ofsted had been and gone and the result was even better than I could have imagined.

Thank you all for your wonderful comments, leading a fully integrated Nursery School & Children‘s Centre like St Edmund‘s is really hard work but reading the inspection reports brought tears to my eyes and makes everything worthwhile.

“This school continues to provide an outstanding education for children. `The St Edmund‘s experience is something very special‘, and `My children love it and so do I‘ are comments that typify the overwhelmingly positive views of parents and carers. By working closely together as a highly effective staff team, since the previous inspection, the school has gone from strength to strength, building successfully on its track record of outstanding achievement. Improvements in children‘s attendance, to the outstanding quality of teaching, enhancement of the excellent curriculum, along with even stronger partnerships fostered with a growing number of parents and carers, are just a few examples of the many recent successes. Apart from children’s attainment and their attendance both of which are above average, all aspects of the school’s work are outstanding.”
St Edmund‘s Nursery School Inspection Nov 2011

Anne-Marie

Categories: Headteacher Reports | Tags: headteacher > history > report