Partnership with Parents Feedback

Thank you so much for the parents who returned their questionnaires. I have read and shared your many lovely comments with staff and responded to suggestions for inprovement. Here are your responses:

 

“Variety of activities, indoor and outdoor”

“Friendly, relaxed atmosphere”

“Listen and act on concerns”

“It’s a lovely atmosphere at nursery all the time”

“Team working (working like a family)”

“………………. says she loves her nursery”

“Very welcoming”

“Feel they are always one step ahead”

“Get parent’s involved”

“Activities are unique each week”

 

Suggestions/Improvements

Too much homework given – Activities given at nursery to complete at home are always optional. They are given to extend children’s knowledge and opportunities to learn further. They strengthen links between staff and parents and nursery and home, encouraging children to talk about nursery at home and vice versa. They also show our parents the kind of activities children do in nursery sharing good practise and ways to support children’s learning at home. Parents should not feel under pressure to carry activities out if they are busy. These activities are not recorded anywhere if they are not completed.

“It would be better to concentrate more on learning numbers and letters, especially for pre-school children”

“I would have liked my child to have had a head start on phonics or name writing before school” – There is so much involved in the process of children learning these skills before the end product is visible. We do an awful lot of activities in nursery that develop children’s reading, writing and numeracy skills. These are skills that need to be developed they don’t learn them overnight. They are going on every day through routine activities, daily play and adult lead activities. The provision is pre-school, where children are encouraged to develop skills across the seven areas of learning that they learn BEFORE their learning experiences at school are taught. Below is a quote from our Ofsted inspection report, one of the categories we received an Outstanding grading in was our quality of teaching, learning and assessment. If anyone would like to come in and learn about the different activities that we do to promote these areas of learning they can come and have a chat with Amanda.

“Staff demonstrate expert knowledge of how young children learn. They observe children carefully and are very intuitive, knowing when and how to best support children's learning during their play. Staff ask children a range of ambitious questions and allow them sufficient time to think about different answers. Children are thoroughly challenged through a highly effective balance of adult-led and child-initiated experiences. They learn to count, compare and recognise their names frequently during their play. Staff use a range of highly successful strategies to help children who speak English as an additional language to make excellent progress. Staff plan for experiences based on their assessment of children and their acute knowledge of their interests and ways of learning. Assessments are effectively shared with staff, parents and other professionals and children make rapid progress from their starting points. “