Our setting uses a key person approach. This means that each member of staff has a group of children for whom he/she is particularly responsible for. Your child’s key person will be the person who works with you to make sure that the childcare that we provide is right for your child’s particular needs and interests. When your child first starts at the setting, she will help your child to settle and throughout your child’s time at the setting, she will help your child to benefit from our activities.

Little Acorns

Little Acorns is for our children attending that are 18 months- 2 years.

This age group is run by Rhiannon Grimsey and supervised by Mica Robinson. At focus times the children are split into their age groups to ensure all activities are age appropriate and differentiated for the children.

Seedlings

Seedlings is our next age group within Parkside. This group is for children aged 2 till the year before they venture to school.

Rhiannon Grimsey is also lead of seedlings accompanied by Louise Kirtland and Basia Nowak-Peterson. This is our largest age group and is an extremely significant developmental stage in a child’s life, which impacts greatly on their future attitude towards learning.

Oaks

Oak class is for our pre-school aged children. They move up to Oak class in their year before they go to school.

Chloe Bambridge, our early years educator leads this class and ensures the children are prepared for their transition to school. Chloe plans school readiness activities and liaises with the schools to plan visits to make the transition as easy as possible.