Our Children

Our Core Values At Cheeky Monkeys Day Nursery: Tolerance of others, sharing, honesty, keeping promises, respect for others, acting considerately towards others.

What we ought to be:
Kind, polite, thoughtful, truthful, caring, generous, honest, helpful, grateful, hardworking

What we ought not to be:
Deceitful, rude, lazy, cruel to others, spiteful, greedy, selfish, thoughtless

The nursery allows the children to make their own decisions, in small matters, wherever possible in order to enable them to develop self awareness and responsibility together with a sense of self worth and independence.

Cheeky Monkeys Day Nursery promotes good manners and rewards children in turn, by rewarding stickers and being teachers helpers.

You are asked on the enrolment form, to give us details of any medical conditions that your child may have. This will be treated in the strictest of confidence by our team of staff.

We follow medical guidelines on certain illness for anything infectious, i.e., conjunctivitis, chicken pox, worms, head lice, sickness & diarrhoea or Swine Flu. There is a guideline sheet recommending incubation periods /exclusion / treatment required displayed in the main nursery office. A telephone number for the Health Protection Agency is 01462 705300 or you can phone the nursery if you are unsure.

A telephone call is required if your child is going to be absent from nursery.

All medicine must be clearly labelled with your child’s name and must be handed to a member of staff. We only administer medicine that has been prescribed unless parental / carer permission has been given and a consent form giving instructions is signed by you.

It is essential that we have an emergency contact number in case of accidents or illness, and is contactable at all times whilst your child is at nursery.

Safe Guarding Children:
As an Ofsted registered nursery we comply with the Children’s Act 1989 in respect of child protection procedures. Children of Cheeky Monkeys Day Nursery are our number one priority and in the event of any unresolved concerns we will seek professional advice, and may do so without informing the parent or carer first. We follow the guidelines on Safe Guarding Children. We hold personal child protection notes and observe children very closely that may be at risk.

Complaints:
A complaints procedure exists for nursery parents use. Our nursery Policies and Procedures are displayed on the parents notice board. Copies are available for parents by request.

Ofsted Telephone Enquiry Line: 0300 123 4666

Ofsted Registration Number: EY398965

All our nursery policies are available by request and displayed on the main notice boards. Please check them regularly for updates and changes. Our nursery Terms & Conditions form a part of our contract, please ask us any questions you may have.

Keeping parents informed & up-to-date:
A nursery newsletter is published quarterly. The parents notice board is situated in the main entrance hall. Please read the information on the board to keep yourselves updated. As a part of our good practice we supply Parents / Carers with a Parent Partnership book, which is sent home daily. The purpose of sending home a Parent Partnership Book is to enable you as Parents to see what your child has been busy doing, what they have eaten and also gives you the opportunity to keep us informed with anything you feel we need to know. Nursery staff will be available before and after each session to discuss your child’s progress or any information you feel we should be aware of. Settling in review forms will be sent home to be completed after attending for approx 4 weeks. We also invite Parents / Carers to open evenings where you are invited to discuss your child’s progress and browse through their personal work folders and profiles.

What your child may want to bring to nursery
Your child may wish to bring a comforter i.e., a blanket, cuddly toy or dummy to nursery. Please feel free to do this, if it will make them feel more secure & help with the settling in process. We do, however, discourage children bringing any form of toy weapon to nursery, along with sweets and other toys from home. (Children can become distressed if these accidentally get lost or damaged.)

Spare Named Clothing
Please ensure that additional clothing (in addition to specified uniform) is comfortable, easily washable and easy to get in and out of, when they need to visit the toilet i.e. no belts or difficult fasteners please. Your child will also require outdoor clothing in case of those. wet and colder days or hot, sunny weather, i.e. coats and wellie boots and sun hats. All children are required to bring at least one full change of clothing including socks to nursery.

Nappies
Children under the age of 2 years will have all nappies and wipes provided by the nursery. It is a requirement that children over the age of 2 years needing nappies have child’s initials clearly written on them.

To enrol your child into our nursery, please click on the link below to complete and submit our Enrolment Form.