Parent Info

You can add your child to our waiting list at any time. When a place comes up, we’ll contact you with a start date. Some places are given to children referred by other agencies, depending on their needs.

On your first visit you’ll fill in a registration form. Please bring proof of your child’s date of birth (red book, passport or birth certificate). This is also needed if you’re using funded hours.

We’ll help your child settle when you leave them for the first time. We ask that you stay for a short while at first, then leave them for short periods. Working with you, we’ll build up the time as they grow in confidence, until they’re happy to stay for the full session.

Our uniform is available from the uniform shop on Penny Meadow in Ashton town centre. It’s optional in the 2 to 3 room, but we’d like 3 to 5 year olds to wear it so they get used to a uniform before school.

• A bag for your child’s peg with spare clothes, nappies and wipes, brought in each day
• Comfy clothes that can get messy
• A packed lunch for full day children

Please leave your child’s own toys at home, and no jewellery apart from stud earrings.

Children in nappies should arrive in a clean, dry nappy. We’ll change them if needed during the session.

We’re happy to help with toilet training once your child can tell when they need to go and is using the toilet at home without accidents. Please avoid belts and tight clothes so they can manage by themselves. Talk to your key person when you think your child is ready.

We’ve earned the Nutrition and Oral Health Award for under 5s every year. Children have a healthy snack and milk or water each day, and choose when they’re ready to come to the snack table. We encourage them to help themselves and tidy up after.

Please keep your child at home for 48 hours after the last bout of sickness or diarrhoea. If your child has a contagious illness, please get medical advice before they come back.

We only give prescribed medicine with the pharmacy label showing your child’s name and in date. Where possible, please give doses at home before and after the session.

Every child is signed in and out each day. Anyone collecting your child must be over 16, be known to us in advance and give the password from your registration form.

Our doors use a coded entry system, all entrances are locked and monitored by CCTV, and visitors sign in and are never left alone. All staff are DBS checked. Sharon Walker is our Designated Safeguarding Lead and SENDCo.

For the privacy of all families, please don’t use mobile phones in the setting. We ask for your consent before using photos of your child in their learning journey or displays.

Our full policies are in the welcome pack and in the policy file in the manager’s office. They include equal opportunities, behaviour, safeguarding, health and safety, privacy, special educational needs and disability, and complaints.

Tameside’s SEND Local Offer is at tameside.gov.uk/localoffer.