Helen plays a major role in the managing and organising of nursery, training, and developing staff and encouraging the improvement of strategies and planning to ensure the children love every minute of their time in nursery.  Her humanistic nature and strategies she deploys, bring out the best in the team for which they are highly rewarded.

We take a holistic view of development, researching different pedagogy from the philosophical theorists.  We do not believe in any one element fits all hence the holistic approach we have.

Through our Focus Learning activities, children are all offered 1:1 support in their next steps, following ideas from Vygotski’s ‘scaffolding’ theory in which keyworkers help children to build upon their current skills and knowledge. Within this holistic view, we follow the guiding principles of the Early Years Foundation Stage and Birth to 5 matters:

• Every child is unique – constantly learning, resilient, capable, confident, and self-assured.
• Positive relationships – enabling children to be strong and independent.
• An enabling environment with teaching and support from adults – helping children learn and develop by responding to their individual interests and needs and help them build their own learning. Strong relationships between the team and parents/carers.
• Importance of learning and development at their own pace – ensuring special educational needs and disabilities are supported, equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice and a quality and consistent team engaged with the children.