About Us

Vision, Values & Aims

Vision

Our children are happy, healthy, safe and included: they have fun and achieve their fullest potential. 

Our parents trust us: they are involved in and informed about their child’s learning. 

Our staff team are enthusiastic and approachable professionals: they listen to and support parents and children. 

Values

We aim to:  

• Promote children’s learning through play by providing a challenging and dynamic curriculum that meets the needs of the individual child.  

• Provide a stimulating and motivating learning environment which supports children’s independence, problem solving and decision-making as they become confident individuals, successful learners, effective contributors and responsible citizens  

• Meet the needs of children and families.  Build on the important contribution of families in supporting the development of healthy lifestyles. 

• Maintain an ethos that recognises, promotes and celebrates diversity ensuring that all members of our learning community feel safe, valued, included, respected and are treated fairly.  

• Enable children to learn from and care for their environment through our commitment to outdoor learning nurturing children’s curiosity and wonder about the natural world.  

• Ensure that our provision is continuously improving and evolving to meet the needs of children and families as we strive to become a centre of excellence 

Session Times 

Arthurlie Family Centre is open Monday to Friday from 08:00 - 18:00.

In Family Centres most children are allocated either Stretched A pattern, this is five mornings or five afternoons per week.  A further alternative is Stretched B pattern, this consists of two full days and one half day per week.  In both patters this is a 48 week placement.

We offer a limited number of full time places, this is for children to attend five days a week - 08:00 - 18:00 for 48 weeks.  There is a charge for any hours over the 1140 hour annual entitlement. 

There are a limited number of core patterns available which is 09:00 - 15:00, this pattern is term time only.

This means there may be children who have different start and finish times to your child, we would ask that you are mindful of your child's allocated times when you bring them to nursery.

Stretched A - Morning Session 08:00 - 12:45

Stretched B - Afternoon Session 13:00 - 17:45

Stretched B - Full Days 08:00 - 17:30 and either one AM or PM session

Core - Monday to Friday 09:00 - 15:00 (term time only)

Being me at Arthurlie

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