Key persons
Children thrive on a base of loving and secure
relationships. At Cygnets Preschool your child will be
assigned a key person who is a named member of
staff with responsibility to help your child to feel
safe and secure. This role is an important one and
the Key person has a duty to respond sensitively to
the children’s feelings and behaviours and to meet
the emotional needs of you child, by giving
reassurance and supporting their well being. That
key person is a familiar figure who is accessible and
available as a point of contact, for you, the
parent/carer, therefore building a firm parent
partnership.
“Environments are not just physical spaces
because they are the atmosphere created
through warm and caring relationships, where
children are respected and valued, and their
well being comes before anything else.”
Buddy System…
The idea of a buddy group is that a member of staff will
always oversee your child and their needs whilst they
attend Cygnets. One member of staff will oversee your
child’s learning journey, help support your child to settle
in to the routines, encourage them to make friendships
and support them to have fun and achieve their
potential. This person is known as the keyperson.
At Cygnets we have a buddy system to enable your child
to have an allocated member of staff at all times whilst
they are at Cygnets, for those times when your key
person is not available whilst your child attends, for
example a staff member’s day off. Making sure their key
needs are always met, the child will feel secure and the
partnership between adult and child is embedded
through our practice from the start. This also allows
excellent continuity of care for your child, something we
firmly believe in at Cygnets.
“Children flourish in this extremely welcoming and inclusive
pre-school. They are
greeted by highly enthusiastic staff who put the children's
welfare and
development at the centre of all they do. Children are safe and
secure. They have
exceptional bonds with all staff members.”
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Our Approach…
Learning is even more fun when you
do not know you are learning…
At Cygnets we consider ourselves as early
childhood educators who provide exciting and
engaging learning activities that provide key
learning objectives for all children that are both
fun and fuel a desire to explore and embed the
child’s learning, providing a platform of early
skills for the children to develop.
Cygnets provide an environment with a balance of
child led play and choices, where their thoughts,
processes and choices are heard and recorded, as
well as adult led activities to ensure all areas of
the Early Years Foundation Stage are covered.
Very importantly the children influence the
activities with staff close by supporting and
extending the children’s learning at all times.
“For a small child, there is no division
between playing and learning, between the
things he or she does, just for fun and the
things that are educational. The child
learns while living and any part of living
that is enjoyable is also play”.
Peneolpe Leach
Early Years
Matters
