experiences both indoors and out. Monitoring is in place by senior management to ensure that all staff are highly effective in their role and supported where required to make further improvements. All staff participated in purposeful observations training during February’s in-service day to improve the impact of what was being recorded on children Staff have begun using the CFE bench marks to inform planning and observations. higher level of interest in what they are engaged in. Staff are well supported and feel confident in their own ability. They know that they can seek further assistance when required. Observations are significant, meaningful and informative, ensuring that they inform future learning. Staff have developed confidence in their professional judgments as a result of the benchmarks. 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equity and inclusion With our establishment have a sound understanding that relationships lie at the heart of children’s development and place great importance in nurturing these relationships from the onset. The establishment’s ASN is very focussed and has a very good understanding of GIRFEC and is very effective in her role. She ensures all staff are knowledgeable, supported, and effective in carrying out their tasks and duties Management are supportive towards all team members and the staff’s wellbeing is of high importance. Health and wellbeing is fully imbedded within our practice and this is evident throughout the centre As a result, children and their families feel happy, settled, well supported, included and have a sense of belonging in our centre. This was evident from the positive feedback that we received from parents during our end of term consultations. Feedback from parents suggests that children are well supported, the parents are well informed and parents have confidence in the team to deal with any issues that may arise with their child. Feedback from suggests that they feel included, supported and consulted. Staff state that management are approachable and willing to listen. All speak confidently about the importance of the overall wellbeing of our children and families and regularly strive to meet their needs in whichever way they can. Very Good
Children are encouraged and supported to participate in a of developmentally appropriate activities which allows them to engage in decisions that affect them. All staff engage in continuous professional development and ensure that they comply with all statutory legislation and codes of practice. All children are involved in a committee across many aspects of curriculum planning. Resulting in children playing a key role in the developments, changes and improvements that happen across this area. The staff speak confidently about their role and their requirements to fulfil their statutory duties. 3.2 Securing Children’s Progress We have a strong focus on Health and Wellbeing to ensure a very positive impact for our babies, toddlers and young children. Staff have a clear understanding of how children develop early language skills and mathematical thinking and provide an appropriate amount of adult and child led experiences to support this. Children play an increasing role in the developments of literacy and numeracy both indoors and out. We work well with a range of other professionals to deliver a variety of Health and Wellbeing programmes throughout the year and almost all children have accessed these. The impact of these are recorded through planning evaluations, programme evaluations and individual observations on individual children. Management team carry out regular informal and formal playroom visits to identify good practice and highlight areas for improvement. Planning formats have been reviewed and evaluations are carried out using the CFE benchmarks to ascertain children progress across the E&O. All staff participated in training on purposeful observations to secure children’s progress. Staff observe children daily and record their significant learning across all aspects of CFE. The garden area has been enhanced to provide rich literacy and mathematical opportunities outdoors. A literacy, numeracy and Health and Wellbeing children’s committee has been established to increase children’s Good