Values & Aims

We value, respect and take pride in our nursery, its facilities and grounds.

Through continuous training and evaluation of the service we provide, we will endeavour to meet the constantly changing needs of the children and parents in a professional and sensitive manner.

We aim to always:

Provide a safe, stimulating, caring and nurturing environment, enabling all children in our care to reach their full potential.
Offer a wide ranging curriculum linked to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
Offer an “open door” policy enabling parents to form partnerships with their child’s keyPerson and all practitioners’, ensuring each child’s individual developmental needs are achieved. We welcome suggestions and comments that will help us provide the best quality care for you and your child.
Ensure children, parents, guardians and carers are treated as individuals irrespective of religion, gender, cultural origin or ability.

Meet the needs of children with special or individual requirements enabling them to develop to their full potential.

Once you have made the decision to join us and have discussed with our Nursery Manager the availability we have for your child or children, you will be required to complete a registration form per child and we will discourse our settling in procedure with you and all neccessary terms and conditions, we welcome any questions or clarifications you might have.

We appreciate that funding childcare can be a significant drain on your resources and we aim to help you in any way we can.

We are happy to discuss this with you in more detail – please contact us for more information.

Child Tax Credits Help is available through the Childcare element of Working Tax Credit.

It provides substantial support with childcare costs and many families are surprised when they find that they are eligible for it.

Please check the following link: http://www.taxcredits.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/HomeNew.aspx Childcare vouchers For working parents, childcare vouchers can prove an excellent way to spread and reduce the costs of childcare.

Balloon Day Nursery will happily register to accept your specific childcare vouchers if we have not already done so as many of our parents uses this.

We are happy to discuss this with you in more detail, please contact us for further information.

Government Funding for Two,Three and Four year old children for 15 / 30 HOURS can be used at Balloon Day Nursery.

It means that each child is entitled to a total of 15 to 30 funded hours per week, per term.

All children are entitled to this funding the term after they turn 3 years old age.

Their birthday must fall before the cut-off date in order to receive the funding the following term.

These dates are:

31st August for the Full term (September – December)

31st December for the Spring term (January – April)

31st March for the Summer term (May – August)

Two-year olds children could also qualify for up to 15 hours of free childcare each week. If you have a child who has or is turning two-years old plus one of the following : A household income of less than £16,190 per year Job Seeker's Allowance Income Support Employment and Support Allowance.

Please contact your Local Authority for further information.

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