The Centre offers a range of activities some of which are targeted at particular groups e.g First Time Mums, others are designed to attract any parent who feels they may benefit from attending e.g Stay and Play. Services are planned and timetabled so that all the needs of a family can be met at any one time.

It is recognised that families may face periods when they need additional support in order to maintain a stable, secure and happy home for their children. These families may be identified by a colleague or our services may be requested by an external agency such as a Health Visitor or neighbouring Children’s Centre. Equally should a parent/carer feel that they need a little extra support they only need to speak to one of the team who will be happy to help.

The Family and Community Services team are responsible for planning, and in some cases delivering, the timetable of courses and events that we offer. If you have ideas about how we could improve our services to children and families please speak to us as we are always looking to improve what we do.

To see our timetable of courses and events for this term please click here.

Who are we?

Photos to come…

Helen Lincoln
Claire Birch
Nabila Hanif
Jane Simmons
Zoe Worth
Imran Hafeez
Shabana Shafiq
Saeeda Hussain

If you are interested in joining any of the groups/courses listed please call into to reception for further details.

Monday
8.45am-10am
Toy Library    – No creche available
9.30am-11.30am
Arabic    – No creche available
2pm-3pm
First Time Mums Group    – No creche available

Tuesday
9am-11am
Stay and Play    – No creche available
9am-12am
Job Centre/Grid (alternate weeks)    – No creche available
1pm-3pm
ESOL    – Creche available
1pm-3pm
Good to Talk Group    – Creche available

Wednesday
8.45am-3.15pm
Fruit and Veg Co-Op    – No creche available
9am-11am
Stay and Play    – No creche available
10am-11am
Infant Massage    – No creche available
1pm-3pm
Famililife (9 week course)- Creche available
1pm-3pm    Entry
ESOL    – Creche available
1pm-3pm
Childcare NVQ – Level 2    – Creche available

Thursday
9am-11am
Cook and Eat    – Creche available
9.15am-11.15am
Creative Arts    – Creche available
1pm-3pm
ESOL    – Creche available
1pm-3pm
Living Language (Family Learning)    – Creche available

Friday
9am-11am
Stay and Play    – No creche available
9.15am-10.15am
Singing Group    – No creche available
10am-12pm
Health Trainer    – No creche available
1pm-3pm
Baby Yoga    – No creche available
1pm-3pm
Stay and Play – for families who have children with additional needs.    – No creche available
1.15pm-2.30pm
Toy Library    – No creche available

Half-Term

Close Thursday 22nd October
Re-open Monday 2nd November

Christmas
(Nursery)

Close Friday 18th December
Re-open Monday 4th January 2010

Christmas
(Centre)

Close Wednesday 23rd December
Re-open Monday 4th January 2010

Half-Term

Close Thursday 11th February
Re-open Monday 22nd February

Easter

Close Wednesday 31st March
Re-open Monday 19th April

May Day

Closed Monday 3rd May

Spring Bank

Close Friday 28th May
Re-open Wednesday 9th June

Summer

Close Friday 23rd July

Nursery & Children’s Centre closed for Training Days on:

Friday 23rd October 2009
Thursday 24th December 2009 (Centre)
Friday 12th February 2010
Thursday 1st April 2010
Tuesday 4th May 2010
Tuesday 8th June 2010 (Education) – (Please note that the Centre will be offering extended provision on this date)

Half-Term
Close Thursday 23rd October

Re-open
Monday 3rd November

Christmas
(Nursery)
Close Friday 19th December
Re-open Monday 5th January 2009

Christmas
(Centre)
Close Tuesday 23rd December
Re-open Monday 5th January 2009

Half-Term
Close Thursday 12th February

Re-open
Monday 23rd February

Easter
Close Friday 3rd April

Re-open
Monday 20th April

May Day
Closed Monday 4th May

Spring Bank
Close Friday 22nd May

Re-open
Monday 1st June

Summer
Close Friday 17th July

Nursery & Children’s Centre closed for Training Days on:
Monday 1st September 2008
Friday 24th October 2008
Monday 22nd December 2008
Friday 13th February 2009
Tuesday 5th May 2009

Review & Forward Planning Day Friday 8^th February

Parents, staff and governors met together for the day to look at the five outcomes for children – Being safe, staying healthy, making a positive contribution, achieving economic well-being and enjoying & achieving. We are looking at all the information gathered on the day and using it to write our three year development plan. Watch out for the display in the corridor!

Ten in the bed….

is our core story for this half term in the 3 to 5 rooms. The children will be doing lots of counting and talking about the animals in the story and wild animals and their habitats. They will also be celebrating Chinese New Year, Pancake day and Easter during this half term.

Car Park

We are becoming increasingly concerned about the safety of the children around the entrance and car park. Parents are driving very quickly, double parking and reversing out. We have been advised by Road safety the best solution would be to close the car park to parents. We do not want to do this as we feel parents bringing very young babies and children need to be able to drive in. However, if the situation does not improve we will have no option but to close the car park between school hours. If you are able to park on the road please do so. We will monitor the situation over the next few weeks before making a final decision. The safety of the children must come first.

Litter

We are very proud of our lovely new building and know that the residents in the area are too. Sometimes children bring sweets to school, either for themselves or to share with their friends. Many parents allow their children to throw the paper wrappers on the floor, both inside and outside the building. Can you please ensure we keep the area clean and tidy by ensuring your child does not throw litter on the floor.Thank you.

Filming

On Friday 2^nd March some of the children and staff will be filmed by a TV crew. The video will be used for training purposes in educational settings. No children will be named. If you do not want your child to be filmed please let the office know immediately.

Web-site

We are currently updating our school web-site http://www.stedmundsnscc.com/ Please have a look and tell us what you think. We are open to any suggestions as to how it can be improved. You can e-mail us directly from the website.

Snack Money

Children in Red and Yellow rooms – snack money of £3.00 is now due and should be paid at the office.

Holidays

School will close for two weeks on Friday 30^th March, reopening Monday 16^th April. The Children’s Centre will just be closed for Good Friday, 6^th April and Easter Monday, 9^th April.

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.

To view the timetable of courses, groups, events etc taking place this term please click here.

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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.

Re-open Monday 3^rd September 2007

Half-Term Close Thursday 18^th October

Re-open Monday 29^th October

Christmas Close Friday 21^st December

Please note Re-open Thursday 3^rd January 2008

Nursery & Centre closed during this holiday

Half-Term Close Thursday 7^th February

Re-open Monday 18^th February

Easter Close Thursday 19^th March

Re-open Monday 7^th April

May Day Closed Monday 5^th May

Spring Bank Close Thursday 22^nd May

Re-open Monday 2^nd June

Summer Close Friday 18^th July

Nursery & Children’s Centre closed for Training Days on:

Monday 24^th September 2007

Friday 19^th October 2007

Friday 8^th February 2008

Thursday 20^th March 2008

Tuesday 6^th May 2008