Butterflies Pre-School Playgroup

We will provide support for your child; *By providing a safe and caring environment *By providing a stimulating range of experiences *By providing equipment and support appropriate to the individual needs of the child *The Key person and setting SENCO will be responsible for liasing with parents/carers *The Key person will be responsible for record keeping, including individual education plans (I.E.P), child profiles and tracking progress against the EYFS which will be regularly reviewed with parents/carers.

The curriculum will be matched; *By reviewing how child’s I.E.P links into planned curriculum, ensuring the child’s needs can be met and that progress is being made *By ensuring the Key worker and other staff are aware of the child’s “Next Steps” *Through observations and discussions with parents/carers *By ensuring the setting, equipment and materials are appropriate to the needs of the child *By planning and reviewing

*Regular meetings with parents/carers, Key Person and any other outside agencies involved *Through observations, record keeping, referencing the child’s progress against the EYFS *Sharing information including progress made and “next steps” *Sharing resources if appropriate *Operating an open door policy

*Butterflies offers a safe, caring and stimulating environment *We offer opportunities for plenty of outside play *We encourage healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle *We support children to become as independent as they are able to be *We support the child’s individual needs *Policies and procedures are in place regarding health and hygiene and the administration of medicines.

Butterflies will access and make referrals to any outside agency appropriate to the needs of the child, e.g. speech and language, portage, area inclusion officer.

*Staff at Butterflies have appropriate SEND training and have had specific training in the past to meet the needs of individual children within the staff. We will endeavour to access any training that will help us to be more supportive of a child’s needs. *Staff have a broad experience of working within children with additional needs.

>*Parents/carers views and advice are sought by the Pre-school *Outside venues are pre-visited and risk assessed *advice and support is sought from the proposed venue regarding help they may be able to provide *Extra staffing is arranged where appropriate

*The setting is wheel chair accessible and the room is all on one level *There is a disabled toilet *Our outdoor area is partially wheelchair accessible *We have a visual timetable of our daily routine *We use makaton to support language skills *Parents/carers whose first language is not English will have information relayed by an agreed and appropriate means

*A Pre-start visit will be arranged where a child’s needs can be discussed with parents, key person, SENCO and any other professionals involved *Butterflies will pre-arrange any special staffing or equipment needed to support the child *Butterflies will contact appropriate outside agencies where necessary. *An agreed “settling in” strategy will be decided with parents/carers *When the child leaves, transition meetings will be held with the on-going school or setting with all relevant people involved.

*Any extra resources received are allocated and matched to the child’s needs *Through observation and discussion with parents/cares and other agencies resources are adapted or new ones sought. *Through observation and record keeping of the child’s play/involvement within the setting

*Through discussion with parent/cares *Through discussion with key worker staff and outside agencies *Through observation of a child’s changing needs and reviewing their I.E.P *From the child’s statement if they have one

*Parents are regularly invited to talk to their child’s key worker *Newsletters and a daily board displaying “What we did today” are available to gain information. *Parents/carers are invited in to join the setting for various activities *parents and always welcomed and valued within the setting.