supporting learning with the best staff
We want our nurseries to be the best, which is why attracting and retaining the best staff is paramount. Our staff are crucial in providing a memorable nursery experience and our aim is to offer them the best training opportunities to support our childcare and education philosophy.
Our nursery staff are focused on providing fun and education, and they will work to ensure your child develops as an individual, whilst helping to nurture and encourage learning through discovery and enjoyment. We expect all our staff to engage in skilful and sensitive interactions to support a child's learning. This ensures that play opportunities, resources and interactions indoors and outdoors are appropriate to the level of competence and maturity of the child.
Children learn best where adults are keen to continue their own learning and development.
Delivery of the best childcare and education is made possible by ensuring staff have in-depth knowledge and understanding gained through continuing professional development and higher-level qualification training. Staff must have the skills, knowledge and enthusiasm to observe, scaffold and plan for children's learning effectively, identifying and meeting any additional needs.
We are working with The Childcare Company to offer staff NVQ Level 2, 3 and 4, in Children's Care, Learning and Development. We also work with the Open University to give all staff the opportunity to study for a Foundation Degree in Early Years and encourage them to achieve Early Years Professional Status (EYPS).This provides us with
a fantastic opportunity to train our own staff from the beginning of their career and help them to progress to senior job roles.
We are currently working with other organisations including local authority Early Years departments, local schools and teachers and the National Day Nurseries Association to ensure that we keep up to date with current 'best practice' and are capable of offering the very best to your child.
Already the increasing knowledge, skills and abilities of staff is having a positive impact on Ofsted results with increasing numbers of our nurseries obtaining 'outstanding' status in reports. We use the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale to monitor and improve the experiences we offer to children. This helps us to make measurable improvements in the quality of practice in the nurseries and we look forward to developing this even further.
more about outstanding Ofsted results at Asquith 
