Nursery Bromley, Kent

Aims and Value Statement

Nurturing and educating every child to explore, achieve and progress to become confident, resilient and kind individuals, in an environment where every child is treasured and fulfils their individual maximum potential.
Dedicated Early Years Educators are passionate about working with children and work as a team providing the best early years education, whilst acknowledging children’s interest and fusing that interest into fun, highly creative learning experiences within a stimulating learning environment.
Promoting parent partnerships and engagement to extend every child’s learning and development; building good relationships and ensuring that we understand parents’ requirements with cooperation and shared collaboration.

Our Ethos & Values

HOME FROM HOME ENVIRONMENT

We create a home from home setting, with a strong family ethos that facilitates your child’s learning & curiosity to ensure that every child is valued and appreciated.

CHILD LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

We provide a rich learning experience guided by your child’s individual interests, needs and developmental stage, following the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework.

HIGHLY SKILLED TEAM

We recognise the importance of our highly skilled team working in partnership with parents to ensure the best possible start for all the children.

PARENTS AS PARTNERS

As part of our Extended Learning programme, we offer opportunities for parents to engage in their child’s development, learning and fun in the nursery from home.

WE WELCOME PARENTS FEEDBACK

We acknowledge the huge responsibility and greatest privilege we have to be given the opportunity to work with young children and so we strive to improve our service on a daily basis and welcome your comments and feedback.

WE VALUE CHILDREN'S ACHIEVEMENTS

We are proud of all The Lighthouse children’s achievements when they leave the Lighthouse and go to school and we welcome their visits and testimonies of how well they are doing.

Nursery Bromley, Kent

Who We Are

We embrace and promote the values of our Christian faith by imparting a loving, happy, playful, and caring atmosphere, with respect for differences, where all children are encouraged to achieve their full potential in a happy, secure, home from home stimulating learning environment. Our distinctive family ethos facilitates your child’s learning & curiosity to ensure that every child is valued and appreciated. Our dedicated team of Early Years Educators are exceptionally good role models to the children, with appropriate praise and encouragement children are encouraged to be respectful, kind and share empathy with one another.

The Lighthouse Nursery provides each child with an affectionate, supportive, and enjoyable start to nursery life. We strive to provide all children with a happy, fun, secure and nurturing learning and play environment where they thrive significantly under our special care. We understand the importance of early years education in supporting a child’s development, and the special tender care and understanding it takes to raise happy resilient, confident children. We do not take lightly the trust and confidence placed in us by all our families.

Our highly qualified, kind, and caring Educators make learning exciting whilst developing enquiring minds and raising expectations and are committed to ensuring every day is filled with amazing opportunities to learn and explore the world around them. By recognising each child’s individual needs, we provide tailored learning opportunities in a fun and caring way, supporting the growth of each child to become confident and resilient and to ensure they are school ready. Our vast resources and activities promote learning and development and challenge children at age-appropriate levels. As a result, children make excellent progress throughout their time at the Lighthouse.

Children enjoy the time they spend at nursery. They choose activities from a wide range of toys and equipment available, inside and outdoors. Children settle quickly into the nursery and form close bonds with practitioners. Children are proud of their achievements.

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Children's literacy skills are developing quickly. They are able to read familiar words in play situations. In the role-play shop, for example, pre-school children were able to identify the 'open' and 'closed' signs. Practitioners have high expectations of children's progress.

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Children's communication skills are well developed. Practitioners ask open-ended questions which prompt children to explain their ideas and thinking. Children gain an understanding of mathematical concepts and pre-school children are beginning to recognise numerals.

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Toddlers display increasing levels of independence. They put on their coats and wash their hands before meals. Children are polite and well behaved. They share, take turns and sort out their disagreements independently.

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Ensuring the Safety of the Children

Every child at The Lighthouse deserves the best possible start in life, with the opportunity to develop in an environment both safe and secure. We ensure that children are provided with the best possible experiences and are protected from harm at all times. Please refer to our policies and procedures for further information.

Safeguarding and child protection at The Lighthouse is a vital element of our daily practice and includes
Protecting children from: maltreatment, the impairment of children’s health or development, ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care, taking action to enable all children to have the best possible outcomes and protecting specific children who are suffering, or are at risk of suffering significant harm.

At the Lighthouse keeping children safe is of paramount importance and whilst certain activities may present some associated risks, our Early Years Educators endeavour to closely supervise and engage to ensure all goes according to plan. Risk assessments are carried out on all activities both indoors and outdoors and children are always aware of boundaries and expected behaviour to always ensure their safety. We believe that taking age-appropriate risks help children to construct their self-belief and grow with confidence and resilience, equally, as they overcome challenges by partaking in accessible activities, they are given opportunities to experience new interests, solve problems and work and engage together whilst being supported and supervised effectively from our qualified Early Years Educators.

We monitor and maintain health and safety with clear policies and procedures about all aspects of health and safety. All rooms and equipment used by children have regular checks to ensure that everything is working well and is safe. We identify potential hazards and take appropriate risk assessments.

Where To Find Us

Halls Farm House 5AG, Milk St, Bromley, United Kingdom

Our tranquil country setting, provides a highly suited location for a Nursery, fully equipped for children situated in a substantial 18th Century Farmhouse which has retained much character and charm from its agricultural heritage. Surrounded by woodlands and a Green chain walk area, where much wildlife is thriving, with large rural gardens surrounding the house which is situated in a quiet residential area located at the end of Milk Street. Grove Park Station, and Plaistow and Sundridge park is a convenient 15-20 minute walk.

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