Aims and objectives

• 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 equaity and value diversity

• Parents are regarded as members of our setting who have full participatory rights. These include a right to be:
• Valued and respected
• Kept informed
• Consulted
• Involved
• Included at all levels
• As a community voluntary managed setting, we also depend on the good will of parents and their involvement to keep going. Membership of the setting carries expectations on parents for their support and commitment.

• is in a safe and stimulating environment
• is given geneorus care and attention, because of our ratio of qualified staff, as well as volunteer parent helpers
• has the chance to join with other children and adults to play, work and learn together
• is helped to take forward her/his learning and development by being helped to build on what she/he already knows and can do
• has a pesonal key person who makes sure each child makes satisfying progress
• 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