Across the Early Years department, we believe our children and families have the right to:

• Feel valued as an individual
• Be happy, healthy, enthusiastic and confident with high self-esteem and self-worth
• Be independent, curious, creative and resilient learners
• Be courageous and take risks, challenging themselves and each other
• Know they have a voice, feel heard and that they can make a difference
• Be able to identify and communicate their own needs and feelings
• Be empowered to meet their own needs
• Respect themselves, each other, their communities and environment
• Feel safe and secure and have a sense of belonging
• Establish effective and supportive relationships and be able to work collaboratively
• Be lifelong learners with a love of learning
• Have high aspirations, build on their previous best and excel in whatever they choose to do

To enable this we will offer:

• Seamless education, support and care provision which puts children and families at the heart
• A stimulating, safe, secure and welcoming environment, inside and outdoors
• Appropriate, responsive, differentiated, open-ended and challenging learning opportunities
• Experiences that value, reflect, celebrate and build on our diverse community
• Effective working partnerships to ensure the needs of all are represented and heard
• Respectful, trusting and effective relationships which display emotional warmth
• Supportive induction procedures and routines
• Effective systems of communication
• A highly skilled, motivated and committed staff

We will demonstrate our commitment to this by:

• Establishing and maintaining a dynamic and inclusive ethos which ensures there are consistently high expectations for all
• Maintaining professional integrity, high standards and being effective role models
• Valuing and respecting all, celebrating individuality and diversity
• Listening, reflecting and continuously improving on our previous best
• Working within all agreed policies, procedures and working practices, ensuring they are brought alive
• Supporting innovation, being flexible and playful
• Promoting healthy lifestyles
• Ensuring all staff have access to high quality on-going professional development opportunities
• Challenging discrimination and stereotyping, breaking down barriers to inclusion
• Ensuring all systems of communication are open and transparent
• Making the best of all the resources we have available to us
• Respecting and responding to the voice of our stakeholders and partners,
• Becoming co-constructors in learning, watching and learning alongside our learners
• Sharing and learning from best practice, locally and nationally