About Us
The Baby Room
caters for up to eight babies,
aged from 3 months to 2 years.
The baby room (Ystafell Pili Pala) caters for 8 babies from 3 months old up to
2 years. The babies are given a range of toys and resources on their free
choice areas for the children to be able to follow the new curriculum for
Wales and allow them to follow their own likes and dislikes as well as space for
play mats and walkers for the younger babies.
The children also have access to the outside space, for fresh air and physical
activities including messy play, their own climbing frame and age appropriate
ride along cars.
In the baby room they are incorporating elements of the new curriculum for
Wales, they have activities planned in accordance with the framework and the
children’s values and opinions are embedded into our planning. There are always
resources available to help the children’s next developmental milestone e.g.
crawling, walking etc.
The baby room also has a separate sleep area with bunk bed cots, this is a
separate room and children are put to sleep following the routine given by the
parents. As they grow and develop the children’s key workers will discuss with
the parents how they are sleeping, how long for and whether they are still
needing a bottle/comforter and what the parents would like us to do moving
forward. This consistency at nursery and at home helps the babies to settle into
the new environment more quickly which will lead into them following the
nursery routine.
We have another separate area where there are facilities to make bottles,
feeds and food for children who attend the nursery from a young age, included in
this area is a nappy changing area giving children a place to have their nappies
changed in private.
Resources are available to help any children in any class with an additional need
such as picture prompt cards to aid with understanding and communication,
resources at low levels to be easily accessed, key vocabulary area and staff are
learning Makaton.
The Toddler Room
caters for 13 children
over 2 years old.
2 - 3 Year Olds / Toddlers The Busy Bee room, (Ystafell Wenyn Brysur), is a large room with tables for the children to develop their creative skills as well as to eat their food at meal times/ a time for social activities. They also have a tuff tray, messy play area and a home corner for the children to feel at home in the class as well as an adjacent quiet area with a reading corner, circle time mat and twinkle lights to create a calm and soothing environment. As we are a Flying Start setting we are able to offer eligible children sessions of 2.5 hours per day ( 9am - 11.30am or 1pm - 3.30pm) for up to 5 sessions per week. The children follow the same framework as Toddlers but have a specific timetable to make best use of their daily 2.5 hour sessions. Resources are available to help any children in any class with an additional need such as picture prompt cards to aid with understanding and communication, resources at low levels to be easily accessed, key vocabulary area and staff are learning Makaton Speech and language is to be incorporated during the session by the child’s key worker using elements from our speech and language bags using key vocabulary training provided by Flying Start.
The Pre School Room
caters for 11 children
over 3 years old.
The Wise Owl room, (Ystafell Dylluan Ddoeth), caters for older
children who are developmentally capable of a more challenging
environment to prepare them for or to compliment their time in
part-time school.
We provide children of school age an opportunity to follow the activities that
have been planned for the current topic as well as enhancing any activities for
their own age range. We aim to continuously enhance their skills and learning as
well as always giving the children the choice of what and where they would like
to play.
Resources are available to help any children in any class with an additional need
such as picture prompt cards to aid with understanding and communication,
resources at low levels to be easily accessed, key vocabulary area and staff are
learning Makaton. Speech and language is to be incorporated during the session
by the child’s key worker using elements from our speech and language bags
using key vocabulary
In the preschool room we also offer the 30 hours childcare scheme provided by
the Welsh Government for eligible 3 and 4 year olds. Working parents may be
eligible for up to 20 funded hours a week at nursery during term time while they
are in part time school as well as funded holiday weeks.
For more information go to fis.carmarthenshire.gov.wales
We also offer wrap around care as well as school pick ups and drop offs for a
range of schools in the area allowing working parents to have flexible childcare.
All of the rooms follow a similar routine and it is then modified slightly
according to the needs and age of the children in each room.
On the next page is an example of the daily routine for the
nursery. This routine will be modified according to the
children’s needs, ages or something specific to their age for
example only 2 and overs are eligible to brush their teeth as recommended by
the designed to smile NHS team. Between 7am and 8am and 6pm and 7pm the
activities will fit the needs of the individual child or children at nursery.
In both our over 2’s classes the children are given a range of toys and resources on their free choice area and creative free choice for the children to be able to follow the new curriculum for Wales and listening to the voice of the child with their likes and dislikes, as well as this all of the children’s opinions and interests are embedded into our planning including the children’s own planning sheets for each topic. The nursery is a part of the Design to Smile scheme and we encourage the children to brush their teeth once a day to help them with good oral hygiene. The children are also given tooth brushing packs to take home to encourage the continuation of good oral hygiene. We are delighted to have reached the top award of gold standard with Design to Smile. We have a bathroom which has potties, toilets, an area for changing nappies and child height sinks to wash their hands. At nursery we encourage toilet training so when we feel the child/children are ready to toilet train we will have discussions with parents to plan out the best way to begin toilet training or work with parents if they have already started toilet training at home.
Key Workers
Your child will be assigned a key worker as soon as they start at nursery, and we encourage families to interact with their child’s key worker as much as possible, to pass on information and talk about your child’s development.
Your child’s key worker will be your main point of contact and will spend as much time as possible with your child helping them to ‘settle in’; they will keep track of your child’s progress by observing them and taking note of their milestones.
These observations will then be placed in a Learning Journal and linked into the Early Years Foundation Phase. The key worker will then write a Next Step of what they would like to do to help your child strengthen that achievement and progress further. You are welcome to look at this work at any time. Please feel free to make an appointment to see your child’s key worker for a Parent’s Evening, we encourage this as it is always in the best interest of the child.
