Welcome to our school community!
Thank you for choosing Someries Nursery as your child’s preferred nursery. We are delighted that your child will be joining us and look forward to welcoming you to our school community. This section of our website provides important enrolment information about Someries Nursery. This information forms part of your enrolment at Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre and you are strongly encouraged to read it. New families are also encouraged to read our Nursery Parent and Carer Handbook before their child joins our nursery.
Early years providers are legally required to have a signed declaration from parents and carers regarding the number of hours of early years education their child accesses at their setting.
Please complete this form to confirm the number of hours of free childcare your child will be accessing at Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre. If you will be self-funding any sessions, please do not include these hours in your submission.
Please complete and submit this form as soon as possible and do not hesitate to contact our Business Support Team if you have any queries regarding completion of the form.
Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre is a paperless organisation. We will never ask you to complete paper-based forms.
Family Hub is integral to this approach. It provides families with a wealth of information about school attendance, how we manage allergies in school, resources to support both your and your child’s mental health and wellbeing, and resources to support you with keeping your child safe online. It also provides up-to-date information about school lunch menus, calendars and links to our weekly e-newsletters.
Most importantly, Family Hub enables you to report your child’s absence from school online, notify the school of a medical or dental appointment online, apply for term-time leave of absence online, and complete medical forms online.
Please be advised that if you visit our School Office for any of the above reasons, our Business Support Team will refer you back to Family Hub to complete the relevant online form.
If you do not have access to the internet at home, our Business Support Team will support you with completing these forms via a tablet computer in our School Office.
Please take some time to familiarise yourself with Family Hub before your child begins school.
When your child joins Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre, they will be taught according to the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework.
What to expect, and when
The Early Years Foundation Stage Framework sets out children’s learning and development stages as they grow from birth to five years.
The booklet below breaks down the seven areas of learning and development into three age bands. Each band contains suggestions about what your child may be doing, and how you can help them.
After each age band, you will find top tips for fun, playful experiences that you and your child can do together at home.
It is important to remember that children develop in different ways and at different rates.
Stages of speech and language development
Children develop language at different rates, too. However, understanding what is typical can help you identify speech and language problems early.
This guide provides information about the typical speech and language development stages in babies, children and young people. You can also learn how to help your child learn to talk and develop communication skills.
What if my child requires additional support?
When your child joins Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre, our focus will be settling them into new routines. During this time, class teachers will engage with your child to perform simple baseline assessments to understand their current stage of development.
Suppose your child is identified as requiring additional support with their learning or development. In that case, this will be arranged by their class teacher in consultation with our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator, Mrs King.
This may, for example, take the form of additional sessions led by the school’s Compass Team or involve your child receiving speech and language therapy sessions delivered by our Speech and Language Therapist.
You can find further information about our graduated approach to providing additional support to pupils here.
Whatever the situation, please be assured that you will be involved in every step.
Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education Centre is part of Operation Encompass, a national scheme operating jointly between schools and police forces.
Operation Encompass is the reporting to schools, before the start of the next school day, when a child or young person has experienced domestic abuse.
As a school, we have ensured that a member of our staff, known as a Key Adult, has been trained in Operation Encompass procedures, allowing us to then use the information that has been shared in confidence to support the children in our care.
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 identifies children who experience domestic abuse as victims of domestic abuse in their own right.
We are keen to offer the best support possible to all of our pupils and believe our participation with Operation Encompass benefits everyone involved.
