Our vision

We are committed to making the child the centre of our work.  In order to make this effective, we aim to foster good relationships with parent/carers, recognising them as the child's first and most important educators.  We believe that a good partnership between home and the setting will help the child have the best possible experience in their formative early years.

Fledglings aims and objectives are to:

• Provide a safe, stimulating, caring and learning environment in which babies and children from the age of birth to 5 years can feel happy and secure.
• Ensure children receive the high quality, challenging learning opportunities which build on the children's interests and capabilities and are carefully planned to work with the Early Years Foundation Stage
• Manage the transition between leaving their home environment and settling into our early years setting
• Ensure all children feel valued, respected and included
• Provide children with a very naturalistic environment indoors and outdoors where they are encouraged and supported 
• Ensure staff and other adults provide a good role model in their relationships with others
• Ensure children's early experiences are of the highest quality
• Provide children with opportunities to develop their physical, intellectual, language, creative, emotional and social skills both indoors and outdoors
• Promote the welfare of children and encourage their independence through the use of appropriate praise and reassurance
• Encourage positive attitudes to self and others, and develop confidence and self-esteem
• Create opportunities for both indoor and outdoor play which, at times, is challenging both physically and mentally
• Encourage children to explore, appreciate and respect their environment
• Provide opportunities to stimulate interest and imagination
• Extend children's abilities to communicate ideas and feelings in a variety of ways
• Promote a close relationship with parents, carers and the community
• Recognise every child is an individual with his/her own personality. We encourage each child to develop at their own pace and to explore the delights of being a child, whilst discovering that learning for life is fun and fascinating
• Develop the children's awareness of diversity in the community and respect for each others values and customs
• Be involved with the children's play, engaging in conversation and interact appropriately, extending their learning and understanding
• Self evaluate to enhance our performance
• Promote liaison between nursery and the local primary schools