Miss Bi launched Early Nurture Pre-School December 2022, she wasn't just opening another early years setting, she was redefining what early educator could look like.
Based in the West Midlands, the Pre-School was born from clear and powerful vision, to create space were children can thrive socially emotionally regardless of their background.
Early Nurture Pre-School stands as a beacon for institute education, proof that where children truly understood they can flourish beyond expectations.
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Early Nurture Pre-School is West Midlands based Pre-School, offering an exceptional Pre-School community in which all children thrive, operating from Anglesey Primary School junior site. The independent Pre-School was formally known as Anglesey Playgroup, re-branding under the same experience leadership following a restructure.
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Early Nurture Pre-School, is built around 4 core values:
Inclusive Practice
Care
Embrace
Early Intervention.
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The combination of these values enables the team of professionals to deliver their expertise in a loving, caring environment, ensuring every child feels valued and supported. The Pre-School also places a strong emphasis on emotional well-being and joy, infusing warmth into its carefully planned curriculum.
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Staff at Early Nurture Pre-School
Manager/Director:
Miss Shabnum Bi
DSL Safeguarding Lead
First Aider
SENCO
Deputy Manager:
Miss Anisa Sajawal
DSL Safeguarding Lead
First aider
Our setting Ethos
We have a clear ethos at Early Nurture Pre-School, that is ambitious with a clear vision for providing high quality and care and education. We offer inclusive practice mainstream early years provision combined with a focus on meeting the needs of newly identified and yet to be identified SEND children.
Our ultimate goal of preschool we embrace nurture education and to forge the sparkling souls of young children.
We indeed care and create emotion and joy; we infuse the sparkling souls of young children.
Early Intervention combined with small nurture group learning and early identification.
Our Curriculum
An Ambitious and enriched skill based curriculum combined with a child curiosity approach
Early Nurture Pre-School embeds the EYFS curriculum and plans skills in line with the Birth to Five matters and this aligns with the Royal Highness 'Shaping Us' initiative launched 2023, by the Princess of Wales and the Royal Foundation Centre for early childhood.
A long term campaign and framework to evaluate the importance of early childhood from Birth to Five in shaping children's and adults lives.
Early Nurture Pre-School deliver a high quality curriculum, staff have a deep understanding of child development within our team. We have a high focus on EYFS, prime areas that are crucial PSED and emotional literacy, and emotions self regulations, managing behaviour.
We teach emotional literacy during circle time, we encourage empathy through story telling, we use colour monsters and Scarlett Lewis story encouraging children to adapt to love and hope.
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We at Early Nurture Pre-School understand that Early childhood is the critical importance of the first 5 years are recognised as the most crucial period for laying the foundation for Health, Happiness and success.
The first 5 years are important of the child's life are in shaping future life outcomes, focusing on social and emotional development, we see the first 5 years as a building block. Early Nurture Pre-School has taken six clusters to support staff in nurturing young children's mental health, resilience and relationships. We focus on emphasising social and emotional skills children to express and manage their emotions, this is also planned in line with the prime areas of learning. We encourage parents to gain insight into the 'Shaping Us' framework which supports professionals to support development.
The way we develop staff offer children valuable experiences through forming secure attachments and offer children enriched environments. These environments offer children life long skills that can fundamentally shape their future. Children are given opportunities to thrive at the preschool, children's mental health and well being is utmost important staff have this time to nurture the children and care for them.
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Staff plan a differentiated skills based planning for each child's age appropriate personalised learning and developmental needs and we use this knowledge to set new ambitious goals and next steps for each child. Each activity is planned purposefully with an intention, implementation and impact. Each child has a learning journal records there data and achievements.
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Staff reflect on each child's learning and development and will implement new strategies for teaching and planning depending on the level of development and achievement . The curriculum is well taught across the whole setting and identifies areas for improvement on an ongoing basis. Staff are given regular training and are observed to improve teaching and delivering.
Our curriculum is well established and unique to our settings ethos, it is designed to teach the 7 areas of learning and development set out in the EYFS, with a particular focus on the 3 prime areas for the youngest children in our care. We focus more on children's knowledge and teach new skills based around their characteristics of learning. This aligns with her Royal Highness 'Shaping Us' initiative which fits in well with the EYFS and works alongside Birth to Five curriculum, we provide additional depth offering more specific clusters, health complement EYFS goals
This aligns with our Pre-School ethos and core values were children are given the essential differentiated learning to thrive.
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The communication and Language: We place a strong focus on vocabulary, oral language and language comprehension, we also emphasises on communicating with others building language and interaction skills referenced from the six clusters of the Royal Highness 'Shaping Us' initiative, children communicate with others and have dialogue conversations with staff sharing feelings and elaborate on their thought process, nurturing conversations and building intensive interaction focusing on enriched language.
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We are an enriched language Pre-School we promote children's enjoyment through the love of familiar stories, rhymes, songs and books. Staff will have high quality interactions with children in key groups. Those with SEND needs will take part in attention bucket time and will have joint interaction time to build shared attention and shared thinking and are referred to SALT for extra targets that are implemented in the preschool. At early nurture preschool we are a language enriched provision, communication with others nurtures relationships within our Pre-School. We introduce key words from around the world introducing children to new key words and impalement this through a structured planning showing respect for other cultures..
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The Physical Development:
We identify small steps that are taught and practised purposefully, children learn and practise what they need and build on what they already know. Staff will model teaching of fundamental movements and skills. Children will be taught using start well physical characters 180 Katie and Active Azra to increase their active movements and be more active this helps deepen and extend children's capabilities.
Children are also taught to eat independently using a variety of tools and make healthy choices, independent toileting, and washing hands and preparing snacks. Children will often visit local green spaces and explore nature walking, jumping, relaxing on the grass and crawling and having high intensity activities.
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Personal Social and emotional Development aligned with her Royal Highness 'Shaping Us' campaign:
Early Nurture Pre-School highly emphasises on the 'Shaping Us' campaign all staff at Early Nurture Pre-School have a nurturing approach to support nurturing and educating young children as well as supporting parents, we offer parents and families support through family hubs, community projects and have an open door policy at the preschool giving parents that valuable crucial time to talk and communicate their needs.
Staff support all children to build key group attachments developing a warm, positive relationships and nurturing interactions. Children are encouraged to build relationships with other children and staff through social activities and throughout the daily routine.
Children are given opportunities to develop a positive sense of self by knowing ourselves, we teach and develop children's emotions using the colour monsters and flash cards, focusing on their thoughts and feelings this enables children to manage their own feeling and emotions. Staff model positive behaviour daily in the routine enabling children to play safely with peers. Children are often given social interaction opportunities eating together at breakfast time, lunches, and carpet time.
Early Nurture Pre-School teaches children to manage their stress in many different ways using the kind tree, colour monsters and emphasising on 'Choose Love and Hope' founded by Scarlett Lewis international teaching, this was a new campaign we taught posters and resources where given from USA.
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Literacy:
Scarlett international discovers the political world through stories on love and hope.
We are a enriched language setting we focus highly on communication and language, inspire children to sit and vote for their story of the week learning about voting. They are encouraged to listen and re-tell stories in their own words.
Children are given opportunities to listen to culture stories from the local Bishop Desmond, who visits us during Easter and Christmas, building connections from within the community.
The children visit the REP Theatre to listen to stories and watch live performances through acting and drama. They also experience theatrical Christmas stories, and learn how stories are illustrated and told in many different ways.
Writing children explore mark making in many different ways, drawing circles, and lines, attempting to write their name, exploring letter writing in different languages. Reading and writing is emphasised daily and within school ready.
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Mathematics:
Staff will assess children's levels and plan age appropriate activities encouraging children to develop their mathematical vocabulary. Children are taught counting numbers and recognising numerals and operations and spatial sequencing. Children will be taken out locally to the local environment looking at car registrations, door numbers, shapes in the environments to enjoy mathematics in an enjoyable way.
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Understanding the World:
Children are given opportunities to learn about life cycles of animals and humans. They are taught about exploring nature and showing care for living things. Children will be given opportunities to explore other cultures and having diverse celebrations visiting mosques, churches, temples, German markets, and having the bishop come out and deliver stories on Easter and Christmas to families. Children explore the world developing curiosity and understanding of their surroundings, referenced from the six clusters of the Royal Highness 'Shaping Us' campaign Children are learning about climate and changes and recycling things and reuse them within the role play areas. Early Nurture Preschool has a high importance on educating the parents on the importance of early education and children gaining first hand experiences of their community and the wide world we live in , which will give them a life long skill.
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Staff make sure all children receive effective support, ensure that appropriate reasonable adjustments are made in accordance within the equality Act. Early Nurture Pre-School ensures the progression for all children of their starting points to their end points are assessed and measured accordingly meeting the welfare requirements.
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Expressive arts and Design:
Children are given opportunities to learn and practice new things in a creative way. Children are given a variety of sensory experiences they need staff plan and deliver these activities on a daily basis. Children are given a wide range of new tools, resources and interactive stories. Children are given loose parts to use imagination creatively to create and challenge thinking.​
Children are often led to critically lead their own tasks and learn from their experience, experiment to complete using different approaches and techniques.
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High Quality Teaching
Early Nurture Preschool staff have expert knowledge of each child developmental needs and the legal requirements within the EYFS the developmental matters and the Royal Highness 'shaping Us campaign'. When necessary the leader will support staff to deal with gaps in their knowledge so that disadvantaged children are supported through effective teaching. Staff are supported to plan children's teaching making sure it's effective and tailored to meet all the children's needs so all children can benefit from high quality teaching across all areas of learning.
Staff deliver high quality interactions on a daily basis so children have plenty of chances to practice key knowledge over a long term memory.​
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The 3I's used for planning and delivering inline with the EYFS
Curriculum
Staff identify what we want to teach the children​ to learn and be able to do that. Staff will look at what experiences we need to give the children and why it's important.
this planning will be based on children's interests, their needs, and identifying any gaps in their developmental needs prime focus on social and emotional well being and mental health. The prime areas are vital and important.
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Teaching:
Our curriculum is planned weekly through short term skill based planning this is planned for each child differentiated. Staff will have structured activities and child initiated activities that provide intentional planned learning opportunities and outcomes. Children with SEND will have separate outcomes and planning that is realistic to their developmental needs. All staff deliver a high quality of care and education at all times. We make sure children make excellent progress from their starting points to their finish points.
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Achievement:
Early Nurture Pre-School see the importance of nurturing the next generation as our responsibilities shared as a community, not just the responsibility of the parents this aligns with Royal Highness 'Shaping Us' Initiative, furthermore we have taught generations from same families over 20 years of service, previously known as (Anglesey Playgroup)
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Early Nurture Pre-School supports children for reception ready, healthy eating independently, secure children for self help skill, good effective communications, managing behaviour, beginning to read and write, have a sense of belonging and are secure in PSED and emotional literacy.
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We evaluate the impact of our curriculum and approach it's having on our children regularly. Our curriculum is delivered and enables individual children to make progress that they are capable of.
It's what children have learned and achieved as a result of the provision. This is assessed by staff observing whether children have made progress and have become successful learners, independent, and ready for the next stage. The impact of the curriculum, in turn, informs future planning for the next cycle of the Curriculum .
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Key worker role:
​Early Nurture Pre-School has a keyworker policy all children are part of a key workers group, key workers form secure attachments and promote welfare requirements of all children in line with the EYFS. Key workers also liase with parents on a regular basis and also support children's everyday basic self care needs.
A visit to Birmingham REP Theatre
Children from Early Nurture Pre-School have educational visits to the theatre often this reflects on our literacy area and physical development. Children went to watch Anansi the spider a theatre production watching a story performed to the children.
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Children enjoyed the theatre meeting children from other schools, they were sat on the cushions next to the stage performance interacting with the actors. This gave the children a social impact nurturing the next generation as a life long skill.
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Children are given opportunities to discover story telling in different ways through acting and reading a book.
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