meet our manager - LUCY
welcome to rickmansworth nursery school
My name is Lucy and I am the Manager at Jack in the box at Rickmansworth. I am Level 3 qualified in childcare and hold a qualification in Autism. I have over 8 years’ experience in childcare and education.
I joined Jack in the box in January 2019 working as an early year’s practitioner, a role I instantly fell in love with! My hard work and passion for the role was soon noticed by my colleagues and by June 2019 I had been promoted to Deputy Manager. Becoming Deputy Manager meant so much to me, it proved that I was making a difference and it was being noticed! This gave me more drive and desire, which again was noticed by the team and less than 18 months after becoming deputy I was rewarded with another dream promotion, and I became Nursery Manager.
I believe creating a calm and stimulating environment can hep children settle and learn. Learning should be fun as well as educational and I believe every opportunity presented allows a child to learn. I strongly believe the importance of building trust and good relationships with all my parents, and I actively ensure I know each family at Jack in the box.
The team at Rickmansworth are so welcoming and it really is a nursery that cares about making a difference and giving every child the best start in life.
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Breakfast Club - 8.15am-9.00am
£8.00
AM Session - 9.00am-12.00pm
£24.00
Lunch Club - 12.00pm-1.00pm
£8.00
PM Session - 1.00pm-3.00pm
£18.00
Tea Club - 3.00pm-4.00pm
£8.00
FEES & FUNDING
Email: jitbatricky@hotmail.com
Address: St Mary's Church of England Primary School,
Stockers Farm Road, Rickmansworth WD3 1NY
Download registration form
Contact Lucy on: 07757280616
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
At Jack in the Box your child’s safety and wellbeing is our priority. To ensure this we need to have clear and smooth transition times. It is very important that you are dropping off and collecting your child promptly at the start/end of their session as these times are a key transitional period for all parents and children and we may need to share information with you before seeing the children in/out of their session. If you wish to speak to a member of staff, please can you ensure you wait until all the children are in or out of their current session. If you know you are going to be late for whatever reason, please call to let us know. Thank you for helping with this.
Our session times are:
Breakfast club: 8:15am – 9am (must arrive before 8:30am)
Morning session: 9am – 12pm
Lunch club: 12pm – 1pm
Afternoon session: 1pm – 3pm Tea Club Session: 3pm-4pm.
Session Times
Photos will be taken this term on Tuesday 13th May. 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
If your child is due to start Nursery or Reception in September, you should now have been given your child’s space and school (if you need any support, please let us know). Please can you share with the nursery team the name of the school your child will be attending to enable us to liaise with your child’s new school.
School Leavers Party – Thursday 17th July 1:30pm
School Leavers
We continue to receive weekly outstanding tennis sessions on a Friday from coach Sue who has developed the children’s skills so much over the past term. These lessons are funded by the company Get Set for tennis and local council grants. To continue lessons, we ask for a £10 donation to cover all costs.
Separate letter to follow.
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.
