-understand any struggles they face

-How they utilise their resources

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13 Crown Crescent,Scarborough

YO11 2BJ

Phone:

01723 503306

Email:

Info@greenhedgesdaynursery.co.uk

The business opened in 2001 by Carol Morley and is run by a team of staff all qualified early year practitioners.

Some of Greenhedges missions are to offer outstanding five star care and education for children.there visions are too see and encourage children to interact with other chidren and to promise rich language opportunities to develop speaking and listening skills that are essential for their well being.

The business is a part of Yorkshire and umber together stronger practice hub.

Due to the business being family run this makes it a private business.

The role of the owner in this instance carol is to oversee and manage all aspects of the company whether this be financially,staff wise or simply answering any enquiries staff and customers at have.They make important decisions and set goals for the business therefore sterling the oath in which direction they’d like the business to go.They are in charge of their own success for the company.

Manager-

Managers play a crucial role in organisations.They are responsible for overseeing the work of the employees,setting small scale goals.

Duty manager-

Greenhedges duty manager is Sarah ,sh helps to oversee daily operations and tells each staff member their roles for the day.this could include who will provide the children with their lunches or simply which member of staff is in each particular room that day.sarah also deals with complaints and oversees more admin work such as photocopying and writing reports on the children after each year.On the 21st of June the Blubells or leavers are having a graduation day.Sarah will oversee this and help organise.A dutyt manager is organised,patient and a good leader.

Chef-

Julie the nursery’s chef has the role of creating healthy balanced meals fir all the children and aiming to ensure all dietary requirements and allergies are met.Julie will prepare both lunch and dinner and snacks which often inlcude things such as pasta,shepherds pie,sandwiches and a range o different fruits and vegetables.One of Julie’s main jobs. Is too ensure a healthy balanced diet but not only that to encourage children to try and explore new foods as their taste buds are developing.For example this week Julie got the children involved in creating strawberry milk.She sat some of the older children round the table and encouraged them to Ryan strawberries.There snack this day consisted of strawberry milk.

Cleaner-

General staff-

The role of general staff in a nursery is too ensure the safety and protection of the children.Not only this hey must be able to be engaging with the children and comforting towards them.Ofteh when a young child is away from their parents they feel highly emotional and do not know how to deal with this themselves.The staff help them to work through this.The role of staff is also to help the children grow as an individual for instance showing them how to love and respect one another and simply learning who to communicate with others which is critical in early stages of life.

Room leader-

Becca and Emma are both room leaders and often oversee the staffing structures on a smaller scale if carol or Sarah are unavailable the apprentices will be led by the room leaders.Emma is a fully qualified early years practitioner who specialises for children from the ages of 0-2 and therefore helps to teach and train the less experienced staff.On the other hand Becca oversees the staff downstairs where children are aged 2-4.A room leader is able to have patience and contain a room full of children by themselves for things such as story time or even circle time.A room leader must be confident,engaging and a good leader with clear communication

They also offer football sessions for the children in which they can learn basic footwork and balance whilst dribbling with the ball.

In addition they often go out on trips for the leavers at educational places such as the lifeboat centre down on the beach as this is a local place where the children can explore certain areas o work and become educated on the dangers of the water.They also have visits from the fiire station in which the children receive talks .Recently they visited the Scarborough ,castleFiley bird and animal park,chalets and even the clock cafe in which they have tea and toast.

The business is able to keep both staff and children safe through having looked gates and doors with a buzz in method too allow parents to pick up their children.They have a form that must be signed in by all visitors to make sure the building only ha a certain amount of people at any one time and it can be monitored.On each door they have a lock on each side preventing children of that height reaching it and unlocking .Downstairs they also had a baby gate just outside of the bluebells room therefore the children are able to be monitored closely,In addition as they close the building they have an alarm system which alerts th police if this where to go off.

For this organisation the nursery have strict rules and regulations regarding the children’s data and safety.The nursery follow GDPR .this is a system in which you must wget rid of peoples information after 12 months if no longer needed,it is an EU regulation which came in May 2018 and ensures both staff and customers data is kept safe and secure.The new data protection law ensures the safety of both children and parents if anything where to become leaked.

How does the business follow GDPR laws ?

-get rid of personal info after so many years

-stores the data in secure files

-sign data protection which parents fill in their enrolment pack

-Stored for so many years by retention of records

The owner (carol) also risk asses various situations for staff ,and children,.for example n the baby room having a lot of toys out could be a slip hazard for the children as they are prone to tumbling and obey juts gaining balance.Therefore she asked that all members of staff clean toys away regularly that could cause these hazards.In addition a radiator cover became lose.This could be a hazard for the children who would be climbing near it and therefore the children where removed from that room until it became fixed.

therefore Greenhedges follow RIDDOR-reporting of injuries,diseases and Dan gorgeous occurrences regulations -very seriously.When following RIDDOR it is critical that you must report injuries,near misses,cases work related diseases.All staff are paediatric first aid trained as a result.

Food handling and food safety:

Food hygiene and safety is one of the biggest priorities for the nursery too ensure each child is safe and does not become ill.

One of the things in which the nursery follow is that when food is reheated it must be reheated to around 75 degrees Celsius as that is the temperature in which any bacteria is killed.They also monitored carefully s they do not cross contaminate as some children have allergies.

As the nursery produces food for the children they are inspected by the food hygiene agency in which they where scored 5/5 for hygiene levels.

Some of my first impressions upon arrival at Greenhedges day nursery was how clean and well kept each room was and the equipment they used for things such as water bottles,bowls and much more.In addition i also noticed how interactive and engaging the nursery were with the children and if there was any issues the staff met any of those children’s needs.Furthermore i began to notice the particular toys suitable for each age group.Within the nursery n to only are there separate rooms for the different age groups but also gardens for them too play outside.In each garden contained different things that would keep the child of that particular age group entertained for a longer period of time.For example for the sunflowers(ages2-3) they had things such as pedal and push bikes to help them gain balance.they also had things such as Lego blocks which could help them with their motor skills in learning how to push and pull the bricks together.Occassionally the staff would bring out water and place small sea animals in for the children to explore and learn the names with.Not only did this cool the children down it helped them learn names of difficult animals.For the 0-2 garden there where less around as at this is a crucial age in which babies learn balance.In this garden contain things such as slides and balls again to hep them with their hand eye coordination.For the bluebells garden (ages4+) it is decorated with hints such as a wet kitchen and an indoor playhouse.

What’s the store service training like :

Staff must be completely qualified in early years before joining Greenhedges or they can join as an apprentice in which the room leaders and managers will show them how to work.this will require different coursework tasks such as paediatric first aid training,food safety and handling and simply how to change a nappy and make a bottle.

Meet and greet ?

The nursery staff met me and the other parents with a smile and even greeted me at the door.Carol the manager showed me around and made me feel very comfortable as a starter.

Service standards :

Some of the service standards that the business expect is that when the staff are out with the children that they remain curteous and polite.Another one of their service standards is to ensure that they come to work clean and tidy and looking professional.Carol mentioned that this helps the staff have a better work ethic and come to work with the correct inset.

Complaints/issues :

As a part of the procedures both Carol and Sarah deal with complaints.If a parent has an issue or a complaint the procedure is for the parents speak to child’s key worker first and formally sort out the dispute.However if a parent is still unsatisfied with this they will then book a date and time for the parents and owner too meet.Whilst discussing this issue they will log this.This goes then in a complaints policy which is logged and kept for a few years or until the child leaves.

Race ,age ,genders ,Religious beliefs or disability.

What is equality ?

Equality refers to being treated equally within rights,opportunities and status regardless of a persons background.It involves treating people fairly without discrimination.

What is diversity ?

Diversity refers to the difference within a given setting.this can include race,religion,age or ven gender.Embracing gender within a workplace such a nursery is critical as it allows the children to embrace and respect these differences.

What is inclusion?

Inclusion refers to creating environments where any individual or group feels respected and valued and therefore creatubg equal access to opportunities and resources.

Examples of discrimination ?

An example of discrimination would be not giving somebody a job because of something such as their age,gender or religious belief.

Is there a need for a particular gender working with the children?

No any gender can work with the children however not a lot of males see it as a career choice and therefore as a result

Most males want to be teachers instead.

What standards do they expect ?

-clean and tidy uniform

-polite and curteous to parents

-always engaging and meeting the children’s needs

Mission statement -

There main mission statement as a brand/business is to offer outstanding childcare and language skills for the children to grow and develop.

(Includes 2 meals and 1 snack)

Cost=£40 per session

Afternoon 1:00pm -6:00pm

(Includes 1 meal and 1 snack)

Cost =£40 per session

Full time from 7:45 to 12:45

(Offers 3 meals and 2 snacks during the day)

Cost=£62 per day

Funding for under twos during term times

This business is closed for for 1 week at Christmasand open the rest of the year

Some of the many things i did was aiding the children whilst going up and down the slide as the manager was educating me on how to guide and hold the children.I read the children stories and created stepping stones from the tumbling mats in which the children thoroughly enjoyed,.

At around 10:30 i served the children a healthy balanced snack which consisted of apple,pear ad ritz crackers.I also took the opportunity to wash any pots needed and gave each child their own water which i labelled from the top so they where not confused later on in the day.

After their snack we sang nursery rhymes clearly and slowly for the children to hear.Some included ring a roses,head shoulders knees and toes and much more.Carol reminded me to speak clearly and slowly to help develop the children’s speech.

At around 12:00pm the children where strapped into their high chairs by self i then kept them entertained until their lunc was served by placing various jigsaw and other puzzles.They where served tomato with Beas and couscous for mains and yoghurt and fruit for pudding.

After this i placed some connecting toys so that the children could use their motor skills as they push and pulled the toys together.

For around 2 hours the children had a nap in the sweet peas room.In which i had the duty of rocking the children to sleep.

Towards the afternoon the children where later served apple and banana with milk.We also placed bowl of water with sea animals in for the children to play with.

We did more singing and playing with the children

At around 4:45 tea was served.I dashed up the fish fibbers with mushy peas and for pudding a small shortbread biscuit.

I took the opportunity to head over to the drawing table and ask the children if they knew how to spell their names.In which some of the children replied “no”.I got plain paper and did a dot to dot method as the children told me their names.The children thoroughly enjoyed learning how to spell and draw their name.

Towards the end of the morning as the children became more frustrated with being inside the staff decided to allow the children to play outside.before heading outside they ensured each child had a hat on and suncream before being exposed to the sun.The children were extremely independent and enjoyed playing together.We decided to use the water tray and place different animals in so the children could play and learn the names of the different creatures that live amongst the sea.

At around 11:00 am the children had their first snack which consisted of salt and vinegar rice cakes and orange slices.Along side this was served milk.

The children loved playing hairdressers with me as i told them what each product and tool they were using was called.

Before heading in for lunch i gathered the children around the carpet for a final story time to settle the children.

The children were served chicken,veg and rice for lunch and pudding was yoghurt.

Some of the younger children headed for a nap at around 2:00pm.

After the children had slept and had quite time for around an hour the children headed back outside and continued playing in the garden with the water and building bricks available to them.

At around 4:45pm the children were served dinner which was pumpkin soup and bread and a biscuit for pudding.

In the morning as the children began to arrive some children were eating breakfast which consisted of cereal and toast and other children were playing in the Dan pit or using the toys around them to entertain themselves.Some of the boys enjoyed playing with the dinosaurs where as the girls wanted me to read them books.I read the children various more developed nooks for their age in which they learned rhythms and rhymes and often where able to finish the sentences i was saying.Later throughout the morning the children where gathered to sing happy birthday to a staff member and were drawing cards for them.

At around 10:00am the children were gathered for snack time which consisted of cut up apples and cheese.

After snack time the bluebells were gathered for story time were room leader Abbie used the weather and date chart to ask the children what the date was and what the weather was.

Due to the weather being nice the children were eager to play in their garden in which they became occupied by water and the mud kitchen.I played with the children various ball games in which they became very competitative.

At around 12:00pm the were gathered inside for lunchtime which was tomato pasta and fruit for pudding

After lunchtime whilst we cleaned up one of the room leaders gathered them for story time in which they read the Gruffalo.After this they played in the sand and created different shapes with edible dough.The children enjoyed playing with the dough and creating an imiganitation.

they were then gathered back on the crape to practice their songs for their graduation.The. Holderness thoroughly enjoyed showing and singing me the actions to these songs.One of which was “i can sing a rainbow” in which the children used BSL to sign the actions for this.

At around 4:45 the children were served dinner which consisted of hash browns and beans .

the children enjoyed playing in their garden in which i placed some stepping stones out for the children to practice their balancing.I also used the same couloir hula hoops as bean bags so that the children could use their throwing skills and throw the same bean bag in the same hula hoop.

For snack time the children where served ritz crackers with cut up pear and apple alongside milk.

Towards the end of the morning i headed into the blubells room in which they where content playing alongside each other and becoming indendant as they began to read their own books.

I set up different stations with new toys and toy areas for the children to play with.For example the dinosaur table with all the stoic leaves where no longer their but instead a safari with different logs and things for the animals to hide behind.The children were extremely entertained by this and loved the different set up.

AT around 12:00pm the children where served lunch which was ham and cheese sandwiches with an array of vegetable sticks and for pudding a small vanilla cake square.

After lunch the bluebells wher gathered for their daily story time and weather check.However was the staff where busy i gathered the children myself and asked them to copy my actions as i showed them a new rhythms each time.

After this the children headed outside to their garden and played in the literacy shed which had lots of aper and drawing materials inside.I helped the children draw different animals which they could colour in.Whilst doing this we sang some more of their graduation songs to see if they could remember and teach me the signs which go long side this.

Towards dinner time the children where served shepherds pie and vegetables for dinner

Ensure all tasks are done

Ensure all bills and taxes are paid

Look after the wellbeing of staff and children

Have they done any training ?

-fully qualified in under 5’s early years

-would be helpful if you have done any business qualifications

What skills do they need?

-be patient

-good with children

-organisation

-strong willed

-determination

What is it like to be them for a day ?

Being a nursery worker for the day is exciting and unexpected.Its all about making sure each child gets the attention and care they deserve.

Use examples of how you put in to practice those particular skills

Picture of me doing a new skill

Carol Morley the manager reported on my feedback form that i was well prepared for placement ,asked appropriate questions and very organised and was able to fit in well with the staff.One of the many reasons in which i was organised and well repaired was too show the work placement my full potential and aiming to exceed their expectations in everything asked of me.I was able to fit in and adapt well to changing environments and therefore gained confidence throughout this experience.In addition i was able to work was as a leader when the children needed to be settled down and i engaged with them through things such as rhythms patterns and story reading

One subject which has been extremely helpful in gaining knowledge in regards to early years practitioning is Travel and tourism.

Some of the skills in which I have developed by taking a BTEC course such as travel and tourism is organisation.When choosing a coursework based subject it is critical that you have organisation skills as there are various modules which need completing at different times.Some of the ways I have managed to have organisation skills is through using things such as a planner or writing reminders on my phone.Some other skills it has provided me with is research and using my own initiative,this helps me to stay motivated and keep my work unique .On the other hand some other attributes I have gained personally by taking travel and tourism is the ability to articulate my sentences correctly and use high level vocabulary to influence my writing styles for example this has been shown through various essay modules where I have been able to progress in my writing.

I have shown great dedication to this subjects by attending each lesson with punctuality and enthusiasm.I aim to meet deadlines on time and improving my work constantly.I’m a passionate student who thrives in succeeding and constantly improving to become a better student.

Following on from working at Greenhedges day nursery i do think that this a career path i would be likely to follow in the future and perhaps look more into owning my own nursery.I felt like the nursery taught me not only how to work with children of different of varying ages and abilities but critica life skills such as a health and safety.

Following on from Sixth form i am going to become an Au pair in America and these 40 hours of work experience has been extremely helpful and helped me learn how to deal with different sitatutions and the things that are critical for different age groups.Such as speaking clearly and simply to the younger less developed ages so they learn new words.

We are registered with North Yorkshire County Council to deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and also registered with OFSTED.

Overall effectiveness - Good

The quality of education - Good

Behaviour and attitudes - Outstanding

Personal development - Good

Leadership and management - Good

Overall effectiveness at previous inspection - Outstanding

https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50147875

The nursery is registered for 51 children per session up to five years old, over two floors, providing a high standard of childcare.

We were awarded a score of 5 for our Food Hygiene facilities by Environment Health Department.

Bluebells-the bluebells are ages 3 up until school age.their room is much bigger and can hold up to around 30 children at any one time.The room has more toys which can help for the development of the children and their independence before they reach school. At the bottom of the room they have a sand pit with various buckets and spades and other small animals in.they also have a large blue sofa for the children to sit and read books on and even a table with Lego and other building blocks. In the far left hand corner of room was a table set up as a dinosaur theme and decorated with plants and fake grass. At the end of the room is the dining area in which the children used for snack time and breakfast,lunches and dinners.They also utilise this rea for things such as baking with Julie the chef and other creative activities such as edible dough and painting.Some of the products and services available for the bluebells include outings,meals and simply creative activities such as baking sessions and even circle time.