Meet the team
Sue Windley: Health and Safety Co-ordinator
Pat Cox: Child Protection (Safeguarding Children Designated Person)
Mahnaz Hussain: Equal Opportunities Co-ordinator
Sarah Boultwood: Behaviour Co-ordinator
Students
Sue Windley: Health and Safety Co-ordinator
Children’s safety is of paramount importance to us and we would like to highlight nursery procedure to ensure you feel confident that your child is safe when left in our care.
- It is essential that your child is signed in and out at each session. If there is any change of pick up/drop off arrangements please inform staff and log the new arrangement in the book by the register. Please pass on the current password (please ask a member of staff for this) to whoever is picking up your child and ask them to sign your child in and out.
- Security cameras are installed which cover both approaches to the nursery gates (main gates and fire exits).
- At the beginning and end of each session one member of staff is responsible for monitoring the exit door, they cannot leave the area until the doors are closed and secure. If you need to speak to them please wait in the playroom until they are free.
- Please tell a member of staff if you are leaving the nursery during a session so that we can ensure the door is closed properly and the security buzzer is activated.
- Please do not park across the white gates at the main access to the nursery.
- Please do not bring dogs onto the nursery area
- Smoking is strictly forbidden on the college and nursery site.
Hopefully by working together we can maintain our excellent safety record.
Pat Cox: Child Protection (Safeguarding Children Designated Person)
Children and young people have a right to be safely cared for and parents and carers need to have confidence that the nursery will provide safe care. All staff and regular helpers are checked by the Criminal Records Bureau. On some occasions photographs and video records are taken of children involved in nursery activities. These may be used in displays and as a means of celebrating children’s achievements in their progress folders.
Mahnaz Hussain: Equal Opportunities Co-ordinator
We aim to develop positive attitudes towards children of both genders and of different racial, cultural and ability groups.
We will always strive to see each child as a unique individual. A balanced selection of toys and books will be offered, depicting non-racist, non-sexist attitudes and showing awareness of both nuclear and single parent families. We will actively discourage prejudicial or violent feelings within the nursery, encouraging mutual respect and understanding towards each other.
Sarah Boultwood: Behaviour Co-ordinator
We expect children to have fun and learn in a calm and friendly environment. With this is mind we encourage respect between all members of the nursery which in turn breeds desirable behaviour.
Staff are trained to recognise and foresee any unwanted behaviour and have strategies to deal with most problems as they arise. We use positive methods and never use physical punishment. We use time out from difficult situations with adult support, and deal with issues calmly and sensitively giving children the opportunity to explain a situation. No child will be stigmatised.
Any ongoing situation of unwanted behaviour will be dealt with in partnership with relevant parents and a course of action will be agreed upon.
Please speak to a member of staff if you have any concerns about behaviour in nursery.
Students
Dovedale Nursery is a training establishment and helps in the training of students from Chelmsford College. We occasionally assist students of Anglia Ruskin University undertaking research projects or Child Development Diplomas. We also provide placements for Project Trident and child development students from local High Schools.
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