meet our manager - candy
welcome to nascot wood nursery school
Hi, my name is Candy and I am the Nursery Manager at Jack in the Box Nascotwood.
I have just under 18 years experience in working with children. I entered the profession straight after finishing secondary school. From this point I completed my NVQ level 2, NVQ level 3 and a BA(Hons) in Working with Children and Young People. My passion for childcare and education over the years continues to grow, to provide children with a great foundation for learning and life is a never ending reward.
I work within a great team who are dedicated, ambitious and forward thinking, ensuring we provide the children within our setting their very best start.
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Breakfast club 8.00am – 9.00am
£9.50
AM sessions 9.00am – 12.00pm
£27.00
Lunch Club 12.00pm – 1.00pm
£9.00
PM sessions 1.00pm – 3.00pm
£18.00
Tea Club 3.00pm – 4.00pm
£9.50
FEES & FUNDING
Email: jitbnascotwood@hotmail.com
Address: Nascot Wood Road, Watford, WD17 4YS
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Contact Candy on: 07593545224
NURSERY SCHOOL CURRICULUM
At Jack in the Box we follow a structure of learning, development and care for children from birth to five years old. This is called the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and it enables your child to learn through a range of activities.
The EYFS ensures:
- Children learn through play
- Providers work closely with parents
- You are kept up to date on your child’s progress
- The welfare, learning and all-round development of children with different backgrounds and levels of ability, including those with special educational needs and disabilities.
time table key
Self Registration
As children enter the nursery for the start of their session, their name card will be displayed. Please support your child at the start of each session to find their name.
Small Group Time
This is a time for children to work daily in small groups with the same practitioner to work on key skills and next steps.
Stories, Songs & Rhymes
Stories, songs & Rhymes are an integral part of every session. This supports their COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT as well as nurturing their love of books.
C.I.P / A.I.A and Free Flow Play
Children are supported during Child Initiated Play (C.I.P). This is where the children choose to free flow play within the nursery. This includes both indoor and outdoor play. During this time Adult Initiated Activities (A.I.A) are available for children derived from their next steps.
Lunch Time
This is a sociable occasion where children eat with practitioners and peers. Children then have the opportunity to look at books with their peers. We promote healthy eating. Please remember no products with nuts and ensure that your child's food is cut in a safe way for your child to eat.Please look at our lunch box idea leaflet HERE
Rolling Snack
Every day children are provided with fruit, water, milk and other snacks throughout their session. Fresh water is available all day.
Open Classroom
All activities your child has available to them are linked to the potential learning following the Early Years Foundation Stage (E.Y.F.S) and their individual interests. Parents and carers are welcome to share their child's learning journal with their child's key person at any time or during our terms open classrooms.
dates for your diary
Get Set for Tennis
Incredible Eggs is a very exciting programme arriving at Jack in the Box from Monday 12th May. Incredible Eggs
provides a life cycle education programme that enables children to see chicks hatching from their eggs. Incredible
Eggs is a two-week comprehensive programme providing all you need to successfully hatch chicks in our Nursery.
They will be placed in the classroom so every child every day will have access to them. We welcome all parents and
siblings to be part of this and can come and see our new arrivals throughout the time they are with us. This is a very
reputable company which keeps the chicks, health, and welfare at the heart of the programme. Jack in the Box will
be funding part of this, if you have not donated towards the programme, please do so ASAP. If you need another
letter, please speak to a member of the team.
Incredible Eggs
Photos will be taken this term on Wednesday 25th June if your child does not attend these days and you would like your child’s photo taken then please add their name to a time on the list placed on the window closer to the time. Pm children’s photos will be taken when they come in and sibling shoots can be arranged throughout the day.
Photos by the two photographers
Songs and rhymes have a hugely positive impact on a child’s language and literacy development. Children love
rhyme, rhythm, and repetition. These three things found in songs and rhymes can naturally help to boost a child’s
language and literacy skills. We will be holding three different rhyme time sessions (each week will be different
songs/rhymes) for the children, Wednesday 7th May 9.05am (Week 1), Thursday 15th May 9.05am (week 2), and
Monday 19th May 9.05am (week 3). There will be weekly rhyme time packs available, please speak to a member of
staff if you would like packs to be sent home with your child to keep and support your singing at home.
Rhyme time sessions
We continue to receive weekly outstanding tennis sessions on a Tuesday. These lessons are funded by the company
Get Set for tennis and local council grants. To continue lessons, we ask for a £13 donation to cover travel costs.
Please if you can make the donation and complete the separate letter to ensure our lessons continue at
Nascotwood.
Operation Encompass:
Jack in the box is part of Operation Encompass. This is a police and education early intervention safeguarding partnership which supports children and young people who experience Domestic Abuse. Operation Encompass means that the police or your child’s health visitor will share information about Domestic Abuse incidents with our nursery PRIOR to the start of the next nursery day when they have been called to a domestic incident.
Once our DSP has attended at an Operation Encompass briefing/telephone call, they will cascade the principles of Operation Encompass to the DDSP. Parents/ cares are made aware that we are an Operation Encompass nursery within our parental information sharing boards where posters are displayed, as well as on our website. The Operation Encompass information is stored in paper form with all other confidential safeguarding and child protection information away from the child’s normal file. The settings DSP and DDSP have undertaken training on Operation Encompass, the prevalence of Domestic Abuse and the impact of this abuse on children and have discussed how we can support our children following the Operation Encompass notification. Staff are aware that they must do nothing that puts the child/ren or the non-abusing adult at risk.
The DSP and DDSP used the Operation Encompass Toolkit to ensure that all appropriate actions has been taken by the nursery.
