Welcome to ‘Charlotte’s Web Pre School Nursery’
Main Room
Our main room layout has been designed to offer a warm and welcoming feel as well as giving opportunity to every child to enhance their individual exploration and learning experiences.
The Wellbeing Room
Our Wellbeing Room is a valued addition to our indoor environment, thoughtfully designed to support children’s physical development, emotional
wellbeing and overall health through purposeful movement and sensory experiences.
Outside Area
Our outside area offers a safe space for children to play, learn and explore. We also have access to a large local field where we hold annual events such as sport’s day.
Our Mission Statement
We are a unique, professional, caring team, confident in our ability to maximise each child’s full potential in all aspects of their development. The setting strives to create provision of a very high quality within a child-centred, happy, secure and stimulating environment which will promote the learning process for all.
Education
Our Early Years curriculum has been thoughtfully designed to support children in achieving the Early Learning Goals set out in the EYFS framework EYFS statutory framework for group and school-based providers which focuses on learning through play. The nursery considers each child’s interests and how they learn, based on the Characteristics of Effective Learning – playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking
critically. This ensures that each individual child’s needs are met and provided for.
Book Corner – Offers a cosy and quieter area of the room for story time and small group activities. This encourages speech, communication and literacy skills and has an emphasis on exploring feelings and promoting well-being.
Literacy – We provide a range of coloured pencils, chalks, tracing materials, stencils and resources to promote children’s interest in mark-making and writing skills. Children enjoy our daily phonics sessions and joining in with rhyming and letter activities.
Many more opportunities are provided for children to explore, experiment, be curious and imaginative. These activities also promote sensory play which has many benefits including language development, cognitive growth, motor skills, problem solving skills and social interaction.
The Wellbeing Room – Our Wellbeing Room provides children with a range of resources and activities to promote cognitive, social, linguistic and emotional development, supporting gross and fine motor skills. Sensory toys give opportunities to build skills like problem solving, sharing exploring, independence and expression. Sensory play includes physical play which promotes healthy growth, development and mental well-being. To support this our wellbeing room also offers a variety of activities such as a climbing frame, slide, trampoline, hula hoops, obstacle courses, music and movement, skittles and hopscotch to name a few.
Focus Time – As children become a ‘school leaver’ they take part in small group, adult led activities to enable them to develop their school readiness skills. These activities range from self-care routines to language, literacy and maths games and incorporate our monthly themes to explore and learn in greater depth. Our younger children also take part in a focus time session however these have a greater focus on their listening, attention and language skills and development.
Light-bulb Classes
Our Lightbulb classes are run by Dave Sawyer. The classes are designed to develop fine and gross motor skills through a large number of fun, exciting drills which are broken down into 7 Levels (150 drills) and the aim is for all children to start their first day at school with confidence not to mention being able to enjoy playtime, PE and school sports.
This new, exciting and fun method of training will help switch on your child’s motor skills early which will enhance their coordination so they are ready to progress in all areas when they start school.
Partnership with Parents
Settling in sessions
We offer a course of settling in sessions prior to your child starting at our nursery. These may vary from child to child depending on a range of factors. During these sessions parents and children meet their key person giving you the opportunity to get to know each other. Your key person will discuss your child’s development, individual needs and next steps in their learning. The key person will also answer any questions you may have and begin building a special bond with your child, creating a secure attachment from home to nursery.
Open door policy
We provide an open door policy whereby a parent/carer can discuss any aspect of their child’s care or development at any time.
Parent/Key person meetings
We offer two open/social evenings in February and July where you will have the opportunity to discuss your child’s progress and the next steps in their development with their key person.
Regular newsletters are e-mailed monthly and updates are also available via our website and Facebook page.
We encourage parental involvement by including you in your child’s learning and development in a way that supports us to build a positive relationship between nursery and home. We will keep you updated via our parent app by sharing photos, videos and observations of your child and encourage parents to share home learning, updated interests, special events and photos you wish to share with us which we will add to your child’s personal learning journey.
Fees & Funding
Click here to view our fees schedule.
Click here to view our Funding Entitlement Policy.
What is Tax-Free Childcare?
Tax-Free childcare is a government scheme to support working parents with their childcare costs, offering up to £2,000 per child per year (or £4,000 for children with disabilities), depending on eligibility. Parents who receive Tax-Free childcare cannot claim childcare tax credit or universal credit.
Tax-Free childcare is available to the following:
- Families with children aged 0-11 (or 0-16 if disabled)
- Working families in the UK
- Those who are not receiving Childcare Vouchers, Universal Credit or Tax Credits
- Those earning at least the National Minimum or Living Wage equal to 16 hours a week, or under £100,000 p.a.
Visit the Government’s Best Start In Life website – Childcare Eligibility Checker – Best Start in Life to find out more.
How does Tax-Free Childcare work?
You set up an online childcare account for your child. For every £8 you pay into this account, the government will pay in an extra £2, effectively giving you 20% additional funds – or the basic rate of tax back – on what you spend through your online childcare account. You can then use the money to pay your childcare costs. You will need to reconfirm your eligibility for Tax-Free Childcare every three months. You’ll receive a reminder via text message and it’s ever so easy to do through your online childcare account.
Am I eligible for Tax-Free Childcare?
To get Tax-Free Childcare, you need to be working at least 16 hours a week, earning at least the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage.
This includes being:
- self-employed
- on maternity or parental leave
- on sick leave or annual leave
Your child is eligible until the September after their 11th birthday, or until their 17th birthday if they have a disability. Each parent or carer can earn up to £100,000 per year and still be eligible for Tax-Free Childcare. Your eligibility doesn’t depend on how much tax you pay, so it will not affect your income tax liability or any other tax, such as VAT. You can’t claim Tax-Free Childcare at the same time as Working Tax Credit, Child Tax
Credit or Universal Credit.
