Nursery Schools: Help with early learning and childcare for children between the ages of 3-5. They are either based in sure start centres or linked to a primary school. Playgroups and Playschools: These normally ran voluntary groups give part-time and early learning to under 5s. 3-5 years old can use their 15 hours free entitlement early years education at these. Day Nurseries: Are mainly based at the workplace or run as a business giving care and learning activities to children from birth to five years old.
Providing opportunities for physical exercise is therefore essential for all ages” (Penny Tassoni, 2007, page 268) Furthermore a good example of a private setting is a Day Nursery. Private settings are paid by the parents/carers of the person attending. Usually Day Nurseries provide parents/carers the choice of 3 meals a day for their children; breakfast, lunch, dinner. Day Nurseries are for people with children that work early and/or finish late. Children’s ages vary from 6 weeks to 5 years old.
These programs are usually free to those families that qualify. Many times families run into hardships or even for our young teen moms want to finish school they now have an opportunity to receive free childcare while they get on their feet. These programs also offer other programs that help families in need such as free diapers, milk, clothing, and housing/shelter assistance. Project Head Start and Early Head Start has had a great impact on me because I have had the opportunity to work for both programs for 5 years. Many times the children I worked with came in hungry, tired, and sometimes dirty.
Most infant schools follow the national curriculum as they do English, Mathematics, Science, Art and design, Technology, Geography, History, this is encouraging the child to learn and develop new learning skills. They also do PE which is getting the children more active and involved with exercise and keeping them fit and healthy. An infant school is usually funded by the government, they fund it because by law it has to be there as the children are learning and developing. A non-statutory provision is a private day nursery they start from 0-5 years, private day nurseries can take babies from as young as 6 weeks old. Private Day nurseries work 12 hours a day from 7 am till 7 pm.
The cost of this is met by the parents. Voluntary out of school clubs are part of the governments extended agenda, for children aged 5 to 11 years. This includes after school clubs, breakfast clubs, and holiday clubs. They provide study support, play and recreation, fitness classes, drama, sport, music and arts and crafts by offering a broader range of interests and experiences. This is usually provided by the local authority.
Rowan Gate supports children and their families by giving the child the education they yearn for and for their parents or carers; some work fulltime or part time which is really important for them all. Children will benefit from going to school as they will learn new skills on a daily basis; whereas parents/carers will earn money and be able to support their families to the best of their ability. A private sector is the profit making amenity. An example of a private sector is a child-minder. Kim Cory is a child-minder who lives in Finedon; she is OFSTED registered, CRB checked, she owns her own car, has an NNEB in childcare, first aid trained, full driving license and does school pick-ups.
There are many different organisations that provide childcare options for children 0-5 years old these include: Sure Start Children's Centres-They work with parents and children from birth offering health and family support, parenting advice, training and employment advice and provide early years education for children 0-4 years. Nursery Schools-Provide early learning and childcare for children between 3-5 years old. They can often be based at sure start children's centres or linked to a primary school. Pre-Schools-Playgroups provide play and early learning for under fives and 3-4 year old s have their free 15 hours a week entitlement. Childminders-Provide care for children in their own homes and children under 4 years old are still entitled to their 15 hours a week free.
A nursery can either be a part of a primary school or it can be attached on the outside area. Statutory nurseries are funded by the government, which the money to do that comes through taxes and national insurance fees. This means it is free of charge to attend. In a nursery you will find a numerous amount of teachers or teaching assistants, also there is likely to be speech therapists, inspectors and councillors near in the area. Nurseries provide good education for children from age three upwards to the age of four when they move up a year into reception class.
The Sure Start programme is intended to deliver the best start in life for every child by bringing together early education, childcare, health and family support. The funding is for 2 years before the child reaches school age. Early year’s foundation sets out one standard framework for learning development and care for all children. There are six areas covered by the early years learning goals and education programme: personal, social and emotional development; communication, language and literacy; problem solving, reasoning and numeracy; knowledge and understanding of the world; physical development and lastly creative development. This is provided through schools and nursery programmes.
The statutory sector is something that everyone is entitled to by the government e.g. schools, hospitals, children centres and health visitors. Schools support the children’s families by sending out newsletters to inform them on how their child is doing. They also have parents evening to show how the child has progressed in their work, schools provide after school activities and also before school breakfast clubs if the parents of the children have to be at work before school starts and can eve stay after school if the parents finish work late. Schools are only open for term time only.