Building on our 100 year history of offering excellent nursery education we are now open from 7.45 a.m. to 5.45 p.m. all year round.

We offer full day care for children from birth to 5 years and a range of services to support families.

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What is a Children’s Centre?

Sure Start Children’s Centres were developed from the original Sure Start Local Programmes, Neighbourhood Nurseries and Early Excellence Centres.  St Edmund’s became a Children’s Centre in 2006.

Children’s Centres have been established to bring together early education, health, childcare and family support for the benefit of children aged 0-5 and their parents.  Currently there are 33 Children’s Centres in Bradford with the final 7 opening in the spring of 2010.

What services does a Children’s Centre offer?

Services offered by Sure Start Children’s Centres are based around a “core offer” – that is the menu of services that a family are entitled to.
These services include:
•    Good quality early learning, combined with full day care provision for children.
•    Good quality teacher input to lead the development of learning in the centre.
•    Child and family health services, including ante-natal services.
•    Parental Outreach
•    Family Support services.
•    Childminding Network base
•    Support for children and parents with special needs.
•    Effective links with Jobcentreplus to support parents/carers wishing to return to employment/training.

What services do we deliver?

At St Edmund’s we pride ourselves on being a fully integrated centre.  That is all our services are linked together and work to provide the best possible start for children and their families.

We aim to offer a “one-stop” service for families needs working alongside colleagues from partner organisations such as the National Health Service, Jobcentreplus and local colleges.

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Foundation Stage

Our experienced Staff, use a range of teaching methods and resources to enable each child to reach their full potential.

Children starting school at rising five enter the Foundation Stage of the curriculum. This consists of six areas of learning, leading to Early Learning Goals. These areas are:

• Knowledge and understanding
• Personal, social and emotional development
• Creative development
• Physical development
• Communication, language and literacy
• Mathematical development

It is important that the Foundation Stage is seen as a discrete phase in a child’s development and not simply as preparation for Key Stage 1.

SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT

We aim to develop children’s positive awareness of the varied beliefs and life stances of different families and appreciation and sense of awe and wonder about the world around them.

MORAL DEVELOPMENT

We aim to develop children’s sense of right and wrong for them to have respect for other people’s feelings.

BEHAVIOUR

The ethos in the Nursery encourages good behavior, eg sharing, kindness, dealing with conflicts in a non-aggressive way and responding to adults’ requests. Staff recognize the importance of the adult’s role in promoting acceptable behaviour.

RECORDING AND ASSESSMENT

Whilst a child is in nursery, continuous recording of his/her achievements takes place.

At times, staff will observe what a child says and does and this will be recorded under curriculum headings in the child’s individual ‘observation folder’ which is permanently available to parents and carers.

Alongside this, each term, a few examples of drawing painting, mark making, etc., will be put into the child’s ‘Spec Book’ to provide a picture of the child’s development and progression.

Each term, these will form the basis of a summary of what the child has achieved that term and what we will work towards the following term.

All this information will be used in nursery to plan appropriate activities, and later, to write a transition report which will be sent to the child’s Primary School.

Copies of the termly progress report and the transition record are given to parents.

The policies, giving details of how we achieve the above aims, are available from the parents’ library.