Valuing Diversity and Promoting Equality

The School House Nursery is committed to ensure that our service is fully inclusive to meet the needs of all children. We recognise that children and their families come from diverse backgrounds. All families have needs and values that arise from their social and economic, ethnic and cultural or religious backgrounds. Children grow up in diverse family structures that include two parent and one parent families; some children have two parents of the same sex. Some children have close links with extended families of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins while others may be more removed from close kin or may live with other relatives or foster carers. Some children have needs that arise from disability or impairment or may have parents that are affected by disability or impairment.

Some children come from families who experience social exclusion or severe hardship; some have to face discrimination and prejudice because of their ethnicity, the languages they speak, their religious or belief background, their gender or their impairment.

We understand that these factors affect the well-being of children and can impact on their learning and attainment.

The Nursery is committed to anti-discriminatory practice to promote equality of opportunity and valuing diversity for all children and families. We aim to:

• provide a secure an accessible environment in which all our children can flourish and in which all contributions are considered and valued;
• include and value the contribution of all families to our understanding of equality and diversity;
• provide positive non-stereotyping information about gender roles and diverse family structures, diverse ethnic and cultural groups and disabled people;
• improve our knowledge and understanding of issues of anti-discriminatory practice, promoting equality and valuing diversity;
• challenge and eliminate discriminatory actions;
• make inclusion a thread that runs through all of the activities of the Nursery; and
• foster good relations between all communities.

For more information see our Valuing divesity and promoting equality policy

Meeting the needs of all our children

The Nursery has policies for accepting children with special needs and has a Special Educational Needs co-ordinator.

We aim to provide all children with a broad and balanced learning environment that is committed to the integration of children with Special Needs. Our philosophy is that all children should have the opportunity to develop to their full potential along side other children in a caring and safe educational setting.

We aim to provide a learning environment suitable for all children, to do this the nursery follows the DFES SEN Code of Practice.

We aim to identify any difficulties a child may have and to work with the child and their parents or carers to address those difficulties.

Parent/carers are asked to discuss fully any needs your child has with the nursery staff so that we can arrange to have extra staff and equipment available as required.

If parents/carers need translators when attending meetings with staff please contact the Nursery Manager and she will arrange this service.

Policies

For more information about how we support the needs of individual children please see our Supporting children with SEN policy and English as an Additional Language policy.

Achieving Positive Behaviour

At School House Nursery we believe that children flourish best when their personal, social and emotional needs are met and where there are clear and developmentally appropriate expectations for their behaviour.

Children need to learn to consider the views and feelings, needs and rights, of others and the impact that their behaviour has on people, places and objects. This is a developmental task that requires support, encouragement, teaching and setting the correct example. The principles that underpin how we achieve positive and considerate behaviour exist within the programme for promoting personal, social and emotional development.