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Our Aims
Tiny Giants aims are to:
- Provide high quality care and education for children below statutory school age;
- Work in partnership with parents to help children to learn and develop;
- Add to the life and well-being of the local community;
- Offer children and their parents a service that promotes equality and values diversity.
We aim to ensure that each child:
- Is in a safe and stimulating environment;
- Is given generous care and attention, due to our high ratio of qualified staff to children, as well as volunteer helpers;
- Has the chance to join in with other children and adults to live, play, work and learn together;
- Is helped to take forward their learning and development by being helped to build on what they already know and can do;
- Is in a setting that sees parents as partners in helping each child to learn and develop;
- Is in a setting in which parents help to shape the service it offers.
has a personal key person who makes sure each child makes satisfying progress;
Each child is assigned a key worker;
A member of staff who has responsibility for the education and welfare of an individual child and key group of children during their time in the setting. The key worker role is set out in the Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
The Settings timetable and routines
Our setting believes that timetables and routines are equally important in the experience which we offer children. Displayed on a visual time table, the routines and activities that make up the day in our setting are provided in ways that:
- Help each child to feel that they are a valued member of the setting;
- Ensure the safety of each child;
- Help children to gain from the social experience of being part of a group;
- Provide children with opportunities to learn and help them to value learning.
The Early Years Foundation Stage
We use the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile as guidance to ensure the Tiny Giants provision reflects the four overarching principles of the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (DfE 2023):
- A Unique Child
Every child is a unique child who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.
- Positive Relationships
Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships.
-Enabling Environments
Children learn and develop well in enabling environments, in which their experiences respond to their individual needs and there is a strong partnership between practitioners, parents and carers.
- Learning and Development
Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates. The framework covers the education and care of all children in early years provision including children with special educational needs and disabilities.
The Session
We organise our sessions so that the children can choose from, and work at, a range of activities independently and/or together. In doing so, building up their ability to select and work through a task to its completion. The children are supported and encouraged to take part in adult-led small and large group activities, which introduce them to new experiences and help them to gain new skills, as well as helping them to learn to work with others. Outdoor activities contribute to children's health, their physical development and their knowledge of the world around them. The children have the opportunity, and are encouraged, to take part in outdoor child-chosen and adult-led activities, as well as those provided in the indoor playroom.
We offer early intervention sessions in our daily Chatterbox groups for children with speech and language delay, delayed development, special educational needs and if required children with English as an additional language.
When your child is approaching time for reception your child will attend sessions in our Busy Bee Group, where we focus on the basic everyday initiatives helping your child to be school ready.
We make snacks and meals a social time at which children and adults eat together in small groups. We request that healthy, nutritious snacks and lunches are brought from home.
We provide protective clothing for the children when they play with messy activities and waterproof trousers for rainy days. We encourage children to gain the skills that help them to be independent and look after themselves. These include taking off, and putting on, outdoor clothes. encourage children to ask to use the toilet and be independent, . Uniform can be purchased online from myclothing.com