Local Offer: Early Years Settings
1. Business name and Ofsted number: Bo Peep Pre-School, High Littleton. Ofsted no. 133010 2. Who is your named Special Educational Needs and Disability contact? Charlotte Curtis SENDCo Karen Grinham Pre-School Leader 3. Provide a short paragraph about your ethos/mission statement for including children and young people with Special Educational Need and Disability (SEND). How do you aim to meet the unique needs of the child? Bo Peep Pre-School is committed to providing an appropriate and high quality education to all children. We believe all children including those with special educational needs/disability are entitled to have access to a broad and balanced curriculum through the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), which meets their individual needs, to be fully included in all aspects of the pre-school and work in partnership with parents. All children should be equally valued and we want to develop an environment where all children can flourish and feel safe. We are committed to inclusion. Our aim is to improve the development of cultures, policies and practices, to take into account varied life experiences and needs and offer new opportunities and experiences. We believe educational inclusion is about offering a range of opportunities that meets the needs of all learners, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, impairment, attainment and background. 4. How do you identify that a child is not meeting appropriate age related milestones and what do you do in this case? How do you find out what matters to the child and their family? Initial home visit. Parental concerns/wishes Parent/carer review meetings. Key person knowledge/experience. Bo Peep’s SENDco Child observations assessed against the early learning goals Graduated response system for identifying, assessing and responding to SEND Referrals to area SENDco Other professionals Identify the specific needs and meet those needs through a range of SEND Information on sources of independent advice and support 5. How do you promote positive relationships and ensure good, ongoing communication with families? How will families know what progress their children are making, how to access additional support and what they can do at home to help? Home visits Childs view Regular parent/keyperson/SENDco IEP review meetings, agreenew aims and objectives between parent and carer. Copies of meetings. Work closely with parents and professionals ensuring all information is shared, strategies and time scales. Support parents during early years action, early years action plus, statutory assessment EY and CM June 2014
and the Education Health and Care plans, (statementing process) Support smooth transitions. Identify training opportunities for parents and staff. Sensitivity Excellent working relationships with High Littleton Primary, effective school transition Progress reports have a section “how to help your child at home” Through out the year ideas and suggestion on what you can do at home, re- letters and sound and reading. Parent questionnaires 6. How will you communicate with other providers who care for a child, or with providers who will be caring for the child? How do you support children to experience a smooth transition to school or a different situation? Involve all providers in multi agency meetings Copy in correspondence to all professionals involved with the child. Visit other provider/setting which the child accesses. Use all supporting documents for transitions. Moving on, One child profile (My plan). Multi agency meetings for transitions. Enhanced visits to new setting. Visual props for the child (Photo’s of new setting, teachers, etc) 7. How do you provide an enabling environment for all the children in your care? Are there quiet areas and fully accessible spaces? What other adjustments can you make? What about the physical environment in and outside your setting? Bo Peep is a “packaway” setting. Each area is thoughtfully set up daily for the children to have full access to all activities on offer. Areas within the rooms are identified, kept the same and support a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum. A daily routine is followed to ensure continuity of care and learning is provided. One to one ratio where identified. Adult led and small group times ensure each child is experiencing personal interests and learning styles Specialist equipment sought and provided. We are working on providing more quiet spaces. Weekly staff meetings are held where reflection/observation influence the activities provided for the following week. Outside space has to be set up daily and we have to be thoughtful when providing inside/outside play whatever the weather. No undercover facilities available. Sunshade available in the nice weather. 8. What qualities, skills and experience do you (and your staff) have to support a child’s unique needs? One member of staff working towards a level 5 in Leadership and management in Health and Social Care with 22 years experience in childcare, Two Members of staff have a level 4 in childcare, one has 19 years experience and one qualified to a level 3, 3 years experience. Identified member of staff for SEN with 8 years experience. The staff are well established employees at Bo Peep and take personal responsibility in their professional development and training. The leadership team has identified and utilise each person’s skills in supporting a child’s unique needs and are deployed appropriately. Each member of staff has the skills to be able to support and encourage a child to develop to their full potential. Each member receives regular supervision to enable them to fulfil their role.
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This is an opportunity to signpost parents to services that can support them, for example the Parent Partnership Service Family Information Service –
[email protected] Rainbow Resource – provides educational products Serebra – grant to getting a will written Family Fund – charity aiming to support, advise and possibly help with funds for families with severely disabled children. Parent partnership – help children with additional educational needs Contact-a-family – National helpline – local support groups Home Start – offers emotional/practical help for under 5’s Parents Quotes who have attened Bo Peep Pre-School “Bo Peep is a very friendly, warm setting, where children are cared for in a very loving environment. From the beginning they try to understand your child and the needs they have. Everyone employed is made aware of those needs. They support your child in their learning journey by working closely with other specialists that your child is involved with, so everyone works to the same agenda/goals. I feel my child is safe in this setting and settled very quickly into the transition of child care. I feel involved and informed about my child when she is in their care”. “We have been very impressed by the quality of childcare provided by Bo Peep Pre-school. Our daughter has special needs, so we initially had worries about how she would cope, and if she would thrive. She has had both excellent one to one support, and warm care from all the team. The staff are very friendly and clearly enjoy their roles caring for children. Our daughter’s needs include both physical and medical difficulties, but we have felt confident that she has been safe and she has had input which been tailored to her needs but always made her feel included. We would without hesitation recommend Bo Peep to all parents” “The SENCO support we have received has enabled us understand how best to help our son cope when he feels outside his comfort zone. Using flash cards as a visual aids, talking through processes with him and working together towards agreed targets has allowed him to make sound progress in areas of difficulty. By understanding what will happen next and what is expected of him has enabled him to feel safe, happy and confident to join in everyday activities”
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