Feedback from Parents Questionnaies

Partnership with Parents

Feedback 2017

Thank you for your feedback responses, here are some of the lovely comments you made………………

 

“Clean and tidy”

“It’s fun to explore”

“We love the close parent/child/staff relationship”

“…………. loves to come to nursery”

“Good links between home and nursery”

“Wide open area for kids to enjoy”

“Love the blog, makes parents feel involved”

“It is nice and nice staff”

“Keep parents well informed about events”

“Plenty of toys and activities for children to play with”

“Always take on board what a parent asks”

“Doing different activities”

“My child learns something new everyday”

“All staff are very friendly”

“Good location”

“Caring and supporting”

“Friendly staff”

“St Mary’s, one of the best I have seen. Kids learn very quick and get very clever, treated like a family”

“Working excellent to achieve the targets regarding children”

“I am very happy with the nursery”

“Staff very respectful and understanding”

 

Suggestions/Improvements

“The only thing I dislike is that children go out to play in cold weather. I understand it’s good for them but for the weaker children it is not”

Outdoor play is vital for ALL children’s development. We have no children in nursery that have any medical conditions that would limit how much time they spend outdoors. It is the parent’s responsibility to ensure children are dressed appropriately for the changing weather conditions.

Effective Practice – Outdoor Learning

22–36 months

Children can learn to make decisions, solve problems and grow in confidence in their own abilities

outdoors and they need plenty of time to investigate their outdoor environment purposefully. They will make predictions about what may happen based on their previous play experiences and test out these ideas and theories. Two-year-olds are exploratory by nature and are testing their skills and keen to find out about everything they encounter, including grass, stones, different levels of ground, sand, soil, twigs and leaves. They are also interested in finding out through observing sounds or movement in the landscape and love to dig and move matter such as leaves by sweeping, lifting with a spade or kicking them along. All these activities help them to discover the properties of materials and what they will do.

 

30–50 months

Children can discover new experiences and revisit favourite ones outdoors. Their mobility and

enjoyment of the company of others means investigations include using less obvious areas to play, such as a path running behind a low line of plants. Children need opportunities for sustained outdoor play with familiar materials as well as with less familiar resources such as a parachute, which can be used in collaboration with other children and adults. Enhanced communication skills support social and cooperative play and collaborative endeavours such as this. Mounting and dismounting from fixed and mobile equipment forms an interest in itself as children try out ways of travelling across a low bench on a safe surface or crawling along a suitably safe makeshift ‘assault course’.

 

40–60+ months

The outdoors is a place where children can continue to learn by doing. They carry on building on the knowledge, skills and understanding that they have already acquired to make sense of the world around them. They are active learners, seeking information and continuing to question and explore. Being outdoors provides a focus for different types of experiences which support young children’s growing sense of confidence and autonomy. This is enhanced by the enjoyment of new challenges, such as seeking and finding treasure on a treasure hunt. Their enthusiasm to participate in outdoor experiences is expanded as their social and communication skills develop and they seek out and enjoy the company of adults and other children.

 

Understanding a need for physical outdoor play contributes towards our ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted grading as it is seen as good practice. The new guidance from Public Health England states that children under 5 should have 180 minutes of physical exercise daily.

 

“Just a little sheet of paper, what they have had for snack, did they have a wee, what they did in nursery”

I feel it is important that in the 3 short hours children are in nursery, the practitioner’s time should be spent with them. We have 30 children in a session which would mean 30 daily reports filled out which can be quite time consuming as children independently get involved with a wide variety of activities and don’t all do the same things.

It is also important to establish good partnerships with parents which develop best through face to face conversations. Practitioners are always available on a daily basis to speak to parents at drop off and collection times and can tell you all about your child’s day.

The nursery also has a blog which parents can access at any time from the comfort of their own home which tells you lots of things about the exciting activities we have been up to in nursery.

 

“Would be good if children could go swimming”

This is something we could look into. There would of course be a charge to parents and it would depend on availability of local pools. I will research some prices and find out how much interest there is from other parents.

Thank you so much for all your feedback and suggestions.