Our Team Vision
As a team, we believe all our
children have the right
to be respected, listened to, and understood as individuals. As adults, we are responsible for responding to our children with time, resources and security to help them develop as creative, competent explorers in an inspiring space with new and exciting opportunities to experiment with indoor and outdoor learning environments on their own terms.
Our Team Building Vision
Our team-building vision is to
DEVELOP
adults to believe and accept that children are the bearers and constructors of their intelligence. We tirelessly work with children and adults to modify negative perceptions about children and increase the quality of child and adult positive relations, using continuous observations, experiments, one-to-one training, feedback, intelligent research and reflection.
Testimony by the regulatory body
We are monitored and regulated by OFSTED.
" The childminder shows a positive attitude to continually developing her service and has clear arrangements for supervising the work of her assistants and encouraging training to support their professional development."
- Ofsted 2015
OUR VALUES
Our 14 values guide our behaviour.
- Respect: We respect the nature, people and the resources for the value they have added to our childcare and education setting, the environment, community and the world. It can be the mother earth, farmer, chef, educator in producing, cooking and teaching values to build ethical skills.
- Respond: We respond to child's voice, both verbal and non verbal signals and cues. We aim our response to be warm, sensitive, prompt and appropriate. We understand children's queries, thinking, theories, interest and needs guide our curriculum
- Remember: We try to understand why its in the market and remember the times we spent without it. We consciously encourage to think 'Do we really need it to make us happy?' or "How can we have a better time without it?"
- Refuse: We refuse to buy the additions, or the things we don't really want. We refuse to put in the market the services that are not essential or damaging to child development in early years. Donate what we don't use to charity to support UN No poverty Goal 1
- Reduce: We think of what we can do to reduce energy consumption ie. electricity, water and even our time to be used efficiently. We switch the lights off when we are not in the room, we switch the tap off until we finish putting soap on. We grow in the allotment and support UN 'waste less food and support local farmers' goal 2, Affordable and Clean Energy Goal 7, reduces inequalities Goal 10 supporting marginalised and disadvantaged,
- Recycle: We recycle what is recyclable. We know recycling takes a lot of energy, Therefore, where possible we go for a compostable option over recyclable options. Support UN 'Responsible consumption and production' Goal 12
- Repair: We Google, YouTube, go to the library or ask for help to self-train ourselves to develop our repair skills to fix things we love. We do not buy new things before we trying to repair the broken ones.
- Reuse: Support UN Industry innovation and infrastructure Goal 9, by investing on the latest technology in IT in education, reuse broken items in creative art.
- Rethink: We invite our children for beautiful provocations that lead us all to gather knowledge in protecting our environment. Our invitations to adults are to use both invitations and provocations as means to provoke own professional learning.
- Return: If we do not need something anymore, we return it back to the original owner or give it away for others uses i.e. writing books for brail writing or printed books and toys for charity use.
- Reflect: We support UN 'Good Health and Wellbeing' Goal 3, Quality Education Goal 4, Gender equality Goal 5, clean water and sanitisation Goal 6, Decent Work and economic growth Goal 8 with Disability Confident Employer commitment, Sustainable Cities and Communities Goal 11, life below water Goal 14 and learning about biodiversity on livelihoods, respecting 'life on land' goal 15, peace justice and strong institution Goal 16 to stand up for human rights, and work in partnership Goal 17 with the government for sustainable development.
- Repurpose: We repurpose our daily recycling to play and learn.
- Rot: What rots are segregated to a container and we use them to make compost to grow our garden and teach our children the natural world through our curriculum.
- Restore: We support and create a bee friendly environment and restore and nourish the grounds we destroyed in the past
- Refill: Climate Action Goal 13 growing trees and plants to increase oxygen levels and educating children and the community.