Parents as Partners | Exceptional Day Nursery Kimpton
Leading Childcare Provider Kimpton
Parent Information
- Find out more about our care and important information on our nursery.
Leading Childcare Provider Kimpton
Parent Information
- Find out more about our care and important information on our nursery.
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Term Dates
Please note Fee’s are calculated on a 52 weeks a year basis all bank holidays and inset days are still chargeable. There may be an opportunity to swap your child’s day that week this is only for Children that attend on Monday’s and is not guaranteed.
School year 2025-26
- Start of term: 3 September 2025
- Half term holiday: 27 October 2025 – 31 October 2025
- Christmas holiday: 22 December 2025 – 2 January 2026
- Half term holiday: 16 February 2026 – 20 February 2026
- Easter holiday: 30 March 2026 – 10 April 2026
- Half term holiday: 25 May 2026 – 29 May 2026
- Summer holiday: 24 July 2026 – 31 August 2026
Inset Days
- Friday – 2nd January
- Tuesday – 7th April
- Friday – 28th August
- Tuesday – 1st September
- New Year’s Day: January 1
- Good Friday: April 3
- Easter Monday: April 6
- Early May Bank Holiday: May 4
- Spring Bank Holiday: May 25
- Summer Bank Holiday: August 31
- Christmas Day: December 25
- Boxing Day: December 26
All bank holidays and INSET days remain chargeable unless labelled (not chargeable) except for the closure period over Christmas sessions can be swapped to alternative days if they fall on your child’s nursery day, subject to availability.
Our Settling In Process
At kimpton Little Learners, we know settling into a new environment is a big step. To ensure a smooth transition, we offer four complimentary settling-in sessions the week before your child starts:
Parent Stay and Play
Family Meeting and Play
Share important details about your child’s needs while they engage in activities.
2-Hour Session (Without Parent)
3-Hour Session (Without Parent)
During the settling-in period we welcome you to attend two 1 hour nursery sessions with your child, helping them to prepare and adjust to their new surroundings.
1st Session
The 1st Session will be a stay and play where you sit back and watch your child engage and take in the surroundings.
2nd Session
3rd Session
The 3rd session will be a two-hour independent stay, giving your child the chance to build confidence and begin exploring the nursery on their own.
4th Session
The 4th session will be a three-hour stay including lunchtime, helping your child ease into a more typical nursery day routine.
Key Person System
At Kimpton Little Learners, we have a key person system in place. We feel that this interaction with a ‘special’ adult is important to your child’s learning experience. The information below outlines what a Key person system is at Meadow View.
A key person system can provide
- Assistance with settling your child into nursery.
- Close monitoring of your child’s progress in all development areas.
- A point of personal contact between home and Nursery.
- Input into the group’s curriculum planning to ensure that your child’s needs are met, including any additional needs.
- Individual knowledge of the children which enables the key worker to make a valuable contribution to the group’s child protection system.
- Continuity of experience for the children during their time in nursery.
- Opportunities to build up positive relationships with the parents and share learning from home.
You’re Child's Key Person
- Will keep an especially watchful eye on the child during the settling in process, reassuring both child and parents as necessary.
- Will assist your child as necessary to become integrated into the life of the nursery, ensuring that your child knows and understands the boundaries and feels comfortable with the people and activities at Nursery.
- Will Builds up a relationship with your child and is there to comfort and reassure them if necessary at times of distress.
- Will try to be aware of any changes in your child’s home circumstances which may affect her/his behaviour or needs in the nursery
- Will join your child in her/his group for meal or snack times
- Will assist with toileting as necessary
- Will ensure that your child’s in the moment observations are recorded and extended for what your child’s interests and learning ensuring that the activities remain stimulating and exciting and be actively involved in recording and tracking of your child in his/her group, in reflecting on what the observations show about the children’s current needs and development
- Will build up a close relationship with each child’s parents, enabling them to be more fully involved in the life of the nursery as a whole sharing any new from home which could help extend the child’s learning.
