Our Vision, Values and Aims

Vision

Every child has the best start in life!

In our Children’s Centres we believe that all children should be able to develop into happy healthy children and grow up as curious, capable and confident learners. We will achieve this by welcoming children and families into a safe, caring, friendly, happy and stimulating environment where relationships are built on trust and respect.

Values

• Children feel secure and happy in a nurturing safe environment to promote their emotional well-being
• Children and families develop dispositions to learning; being resilient and problem solving whist taking risks
• All children and families are unique and are included
• Respect building positive relationships
• Effective communication
• Being involved and interested and reflective
• Partnership – learning from parents

Aims

In our Children’s Centres we aim to:

• Enable children to become confident learners by:
  – Providing a flexible child centred environment
  – Value and empower
  
  Provide a high quality enabling environment by:
  – Flexible resources
  – Provide a caring and professional staff team
  
  Practitioners that support, model and be researchers together with children in play
  – Continuity for children
  – Compassionate
  – Positive
  – Bubbly
  – Friendly
  – Approachable
  – Fun
  – Dedicated
  – Hardworking
  
  Work in partnership with other agencies and communities to promote the welfare of children
  – Confidentiality
  – Professionalism
  – Sharing knowledge
  
  Work in partnership with parents
  – Supportive staff
  – Trust
  – Listening
  – Honesty
  
  Promote wellbeing and respect
  – Dependable staff
  – Team work
  – Value each other
  – Non judgemental
  – Encouraging
  – Nurturing