Our welcoming and inviting environment is situated in the St James Methodist Church on St James Road. Our setting comprises of two rooms which offer children excellent learning opportunities, both rooms are equipped with age suitable resources. We also have access to a securely enclosed outside play area. All of our staff members have safeguarding training and our setting manager is the designated safeguarding lead.
We offer a variety of sessions and are open term time only Monday – Friday, 38 weeks of the year. We offer a morning and afternoon sessions. We provide care for funded and paying children and accept children with the 30 hour funding.
At Shirley Preschool, we provide children with the fantastic opportunity to explore, discover and grow together on a daily basis. Our free flow ethos allow children the opportunity to investigate all areas of our preschool at a pace that they desire.
The key person is responsible for recognising children development, understanding their needs, planning the child’s next steps and activities to meet these. Ongoing assessments and observations are completed on all children throughout their time at Shirley Preschool. To do this we use an online system called Tapestry to assess the children’s ages and stages this results in observations which will be published to you on a regular basis. Only the parents and staff at Shirley Preschool can access the information on tapestry. We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage framework which gives us guidelines to the goals children need to meet.
At Shirley Preschool, you can be sure that we provide quality and consistency so that every child makes good progress and no child gets left behind. A secure foundation through learning and development opportunities which are planned around the individual needs and interest of every child. Excellent parent partnership and an equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice, ensuring that every child is included and supported.