Melrose Community
Community Based Approach
Parents and carers provide emotional support and daily nurturing, while practitioners, such as teachers or childcare professionals, offer expertise in child development and learning.
Open communication and mutual respect between these groups foster a collaborative environment where children’s needs are met holistically.
This community-based approach helps children thrive, as it aligns their experiences across different settings and empowers the adults involved to make informed decisions that benefit the child’s growth and success.
Highly Rated
We have a great reputation with parents and our reviews speak for themselves.
Ofsted Good provider
‘Equipped with high quality resources’ and ‘very supportive to learning’ – Ofsted report.
Funding Available
We offer several types of Government funding to make childcare more affordable.
Parents and carers
We value an open and friendly relationship with you and by having an open-door policy enables ample opportunity to discuss your child’s progress. We encourage parents to regularly access their child’s learning Journey journal and add to it. All parent’s views are valued and respected. We work in partnership with parents to help children to learn and develop.
The role of a key person
A Key person will be assigned to your child who will work in a bubble with one or two other key people, just like a family in a home environment. Their role is vital to meeting your child’s individual needs. Think of your child’s Key Person as your partner and point of contact.
A Key person is there to support you and your child’s individual needs by working in partnership with you, they are there from day one to help your child settle into the nursery, if you feel your child may be anxious joining the nursery they will offer a home visit to help develop the relationship. Each bubble has a lead practitioner who can support you on how to deal with anything from sleeping routines, toilet training, fussy eating and much more!
Your child’s Key person is available daily to discuss your child’s day with you and you can book a formal meeting with your key person any time that is mutually convenient. The Key person is dedicated to encouraging and supporting your child’s skills, they will observe your child’s level of learning, assess their next steps and plan activities to support your child to the next stage in their development.
Practitioners
It is the nursery policy to only employ Nursery Practitioners who are professional and dedicated to providing the highest quality childcare.
Rose and Mel believe in the team feeling like a family within the nursery by only have contracted nursery practitioners and not using any agency staff you will see the same familiar faces every day.
All Melrose practitioners continue to update their professional development during their time at Melrose On The Hill.
Ensuring safety and expertise at Melrose On The Hill
The entire Melrose nursery team hold First Aid, Health and Safety, Child Protection and Safeguarding certificates. All practitioners have enhanced DBS checks, full reference checks and undergo an intensive induction programme when joining a Melrose nursery. We use the nursery training platforms Educare and NoodleNow.