Our vision
To operate an outstanding nursery that consistently provides exceptional standards of care and education for each child in the setting.
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Our Mission
We understand and value the importance of nursery education in its own right and not just in preparation for school. We believe each child is unique and therefore strive to ensure that each child is valued through our warm and nurturing environment.
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Our values and aims
Tick Tock Playgroup is a nursery providing education and care for children and their families. The stimulating environment of the purpose built nursery gives children opportunities to enjoy learning and the innovative and exciting curriculum is a prominent factor in the childrens high level of achievement.
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We Believe:
- That children have the right to play and children learn by leading their own play and taking part in play guided by adults.
- That supporting childrens well-being is fundamental to engaging them in learning
- To allow children to achieve we need to allow time for children to learn, to think, to speak and to do.
- We must give children time to persevere to overcome challenges and to develop independence.
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We have a strong belief that building a happy team makes for happy children.
Happy team = Happy children = Happy families
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Tick Tock Playgroup’s curriculum is the child’s FUTURE
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Foundations to life – We use our educational programmes based around the EYFS 7 areas of learning and the birth to 5 as guidance to promote and develop childrens learning.
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Understanding of the world – We guide the children to make sense of their physical world and their community through different opportunities.
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The love of language – A rich vocabulary helps children succeed in whatever they chose to do.
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Unique child – Each child having opportunities to interact in positive relationships and enabling environments that encourage their engagement and recognise their strengths.
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Resilience and indepedence – Teaching children the ability to bounce back after challenges and tough times and giving them the essential life skills of doing things for themselves which also includes decision making and taking on responsibility.
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Engaging experiences – We provide the children with a wide variety of experiences to motivate, inspire and challenge allowing them to succeed in our curriculum.
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We value all children and support their development of independence and self-esteem. This allows every child to reach their full potential from transitions within the setting from room to room and then finally onto their next chapter of ‘Big School’.
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Pedagogy
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At Tick Tock the child is the centre of our curriculum.
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We start with what the child can already do and use this as a foundation to scaffold their learning, by supporting their natural spontaneous desire to learn. We focus on the importance of opportunities for children to build their knowledge and acquire skills through exploration, interaction and opportunities both inside and outside the setting and imitation of positive role models.
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We provide engaging enabling environments to promote a sense of belonging to the children and enhance their learning with the tools in different areas of the EYFS curriculum. When we are planning our activities for adult led activities we use birth to 5 matters to help us plan and ensure that children are making progress.
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We monitor the impact of our curriculum and pedagogy through the use of a interactive learning diary where parents are kept updated with everything that happens within the setting. Each child’s key worker will write 2 reports per year using their knowledge about the children (their abilities and interests) to creat achievable yet aspiring targets.