All schools and Ofsted-registered early years providers must follow the EYFS, including childminders, preschools, nurseries and school reception classes.

Areas of learning

Your child will mostly be taught through games and play.

There are seven areas of learning:

• communication and language
• physical development
• personal, social and emotional development
• literacy
• mathematics
• understanding the world
• expressive arts and design

Please click the link for further information https://www.gov.uk/early-years-foundation-stage

Pauline Plant Tel: 07968 006451
Preschool Supervisor
Primary Teaching Diploma, SENCO Officer, Designated Safeguarding Lead, Food Hygiene, First Aid Trained.

Sharon Light: Tel: 07799 458124
Preschool Deputy Supervisor
NVQ Level 3, Health & Safety Officer, Fire Officer, Designated Safeguarding Lead, First Aid Trained, Food Hygiene

Lisa Munro
NNEB, Forest School Leader Award, Safeguarding Children, First Aid Trained, Early Years Foundation Degree, Food Hygiene

Sally Walker
NVQ Level 3, Equality and Diversity Officer, Food Hygiene, Safeguarding Children, First Aid Trained

Aleesha Barrington-Cramp
NVQ Level 3, Forest School Leader, Sustainability Lead, Safeguarding Children, First Aid Trained, Food Hygiene

Jane McCarthy
Safeguarding Children, First Aid Trained, Wellcomm Co-ordinator

Key Persons

Our pre-school uses a key person approach. This means that each member of staff has a group of children for whom they are particularly responsible. Your child’s key person will work with you to make sure that what we provide is right for your child’s particular needs and interests. When your child first starts at pre-school, they will help your child to settle. Throughout your child’s time at the pre-school, they will help your child to benefit from the pre-school’s activities.

We also have a buddy group system. Each staff member is paired up with other members of staff who act as secondary key persons when the other is away. This means that each child has their main key person and a link with another member of staff.

Working together for your children

Our adult-to-child ratio is usually higher than set through the Welfare Requirements.  This enables us to:-

• give time and attention to each child
• talk with the children about their interests and activities
• find and help talents to flower
• help children to experience and benefit from all the activities we provide
• allow the children to explore and be adventurous in safety

The staff and committee of the pre-school work together to adopt the policies and they have the opportunity to take part in the annual review of the policies. This review helps us to improve our service for its members and the local community.

Copies of some of the pre-school’s policies and procedures are available below and a full set of all policies is available upon request at the premises.

• 0 Introduction
• 0.1  Health and Safety
• 05   Promoting Inclusion, Equality and Valuing Diversity
• 05.1  Promoting Inclusion, Equality and Valuing Diversity.  Equality Procedures
• 06   Safeguarding
• 06.1 Responding to Safeguarding or Child Protection Concerns
• 06.2  Low Level concerns and allegation of serious harm
• 06.3 Visitor or Intruder on the Premises
• 07.1 Children’s Records and Data Protection
• 07.1(a) Privacy Notice
• 10.2 Complaints Procedure

• £6.00 per hour

The fees are payable in advance each half-term.  Payment is preferable by bank transfer but cheques can also be used, made payable to Ascott Pre-school. Fees must still be paid if children are absent without notice for a short period of time. For your child to keep his or her place at the pre-school you must pay the fees. Please discuss any difficulties with Pauline Plant.

We receive nursery education funding please click the following links to check your eligibility.

https://www.gov.uk/help-with-childcare-costs/free-childcare-2-year-olds

https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/childcare-expansion/early-years-childcare

All our fundraising efforts are designed to be sociable or of practical use, ideally both, with profit an added bonus. Our main fundraising event of the year is the summer sports day and BBQ in June, and we hold a variety of other events throughout the year for you and your children. Successful events in the past have included film nights, frock swaps, book sales, and craft and activity mornings. We are always looking for new ideas and offers of help, so please speak to a member of staff or the committee if you can contribute in any way.

Easy Fundraising

An easy way for you to help support us with fundraising is to use the following website when shopping online: http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/auwps/. We can benefit from your purchases with no extra cost to you and it would be great if you could encourage family and friends to use the site too.

There are hundreds of retailers involved including Next, Boden, M & S, John Lewis, Amazon, ELC, Mothercare, and Boots. All you have to do is go onto the website and then follow 3 easy steps:

• Register Ascott-under-Wychwood Pre-school as the cause that you want to support. Registration is free.
• Login using your username/password. This is how the system recognises who you are and which cause benefits when you make purchases.
• Click any of the retailer links provided and then shop just as you would normally.

• managing the Pre-school’s finances including fundraising and sourcing grants
• employing and managing the staff
• making sure that the Pre-school works to policies that help it to provide a high quality service
• making sure that the Pre-school works in partnership with the children’s parents and the community

Committee Members

• Miriam Owen – Chair
• Rene Bloomfield – Secretary
• Sally Elderfield – Administrator/Treasurer
• Pauline Plant – Pre-School Manager/Committee Member
• Sharon Light – Pre-School Deputy Manager/Committee Member
• Arvi Izod – Committee member
• Jane McCarthy – Committee member

All roles on the committee are voluntary and very rewarding, sociable and fun. Without the committee the Pre-school could not operate so if you are interested in joining, or can offer help in anyway, please let one of the staff know.

You can join at any time but elections also take place at our Annual General Meeting in October which is open to the parents of all of the children who attend the Pre-school. It is our shared forum for looking back over the previous year’s activities and shaping the coming year’s plan.