BARROW HILL PRE-SCHOOL
Affordable quality childcare
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Contact Information
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Barrow Hill Pre-School
First floor, Tenant’s hall
Barrow Hill Estate
London
NW8 7BD
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Ofsted registration: EY462135
Charity number: 1150984
Companies’ house: 8355179
Mobile: 07516044081
Website:www.barrowhillpreschool.com
Email: barrowhill@wplauk.org
barrowhill.preschool@gmail.com
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About Us
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Barrow Hill Pre-school is a nursery setting in the heart of St John’s wood. We accept busy 2 year old funding and working family funding (parents/carers must apply for this through the childcare choices website) and universal 3-4 year old funding.
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The pre-school's unique focus is on nurturing and educating young minds. Also creating individual and independent learners who are
ready, when it’s time, to move on to primary school. Our setting has very strong bonds with our local schools.
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Our ethos is learning through play.
Supporting your child’s learning and development
We aim to work together with you to best meet your child’s individual needs.​
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Our little nursery opened over 25 years ago. It began as a mother and toddler group, run by local parents. Now we run pre-school/nursery part time sessions, as well as full time sessions, term time only. We are a small nurturing environment. The children and families that attend our setting form very close bonds with all members of staff as well as each other.
We hire the room through WCC who are our landlords.
The nursery is very special to us, as the manager and staff members own children attended the setting when they were young.
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Barrow hill pre-school is part of the Early Year’s Alliance. It is their policies, procedures and guidelines we adhere too.​ We hold a charity status. We are named on the charity commission and are an incorporated company on companies’ house.​ We are Ofsted registered and our latest Ofsted report is available to read or download from the Ofsted website.​ We have very good relationships with our local schools and we work closely with them during the children’s transition at the end of their time with us.
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Ofsted registered Good ( See www.reports.ofsted.gov.uk/Barrowhillpreschool )
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We offer affordable and quality childcare and early years education for Children aged 2 - 5 years​
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We offer full and part time sessions AM 8.30-11.30 /PM 12-3.00 and lunch (at extra cost)
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We are open during Westminster term times only.
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Funded government places 15/30 hours per week are available to qualifying parents ( please check out childcare choices website)
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We offer the following food options: breakfast/morning session, Lunch /11.30am-12pm and Healthy snack in the afternoon session
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Barrow Hill Pre-School Curriculum
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Our aims at Barrow Hill Pre-school: By the end of our summer term, we would like our children to be working towards
achieving the following:
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Our aims for two year olds:
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We are strong believers in learning through play. We strive for all children to
learn and develop in a fun, play based environment. Delivering exciting
activities and experiences led by qualified, experienced and sensitive
practitioners. We aim for our 2 year olds to be secure or working towards their individual goals in the 3 prime areas of the early years foundation stage National curriculum.
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Communication and language
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Physical Development
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Personal social and emotional
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Our aims for 3-4 year olds:
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We now begin to introduce the specific areas of the curriculum to a child's learning
and development. We introduce these 4 areas, once a child is secure in the 3
prime areas.
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Literacy Development
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Understanding the world
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Expressive art and design
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Math development
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All learning and development throughout these areas are delivered through
fun play based activities. We follow the child's interests to help engage
in meaningful play. Our qualified practitioners continually make observations and
assessments of each individual child's progress and plan for the next steps to
ensure development in all areas or to provide extra support where needed.
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Our aims for 4-5 year olds
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Our Vision/Mission is to inspire curiosity and independence through meaningful play experiences to nurture a lifelong love of learning. By the age of 4-5 years old we aim to be confident, capable and resilient and ready for the school transition.
Meet our Team
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We have a high retention of staff
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We have five members of staff in our pre-school
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All staff are qualified level 3 practitioners
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All staff are first aid trained
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All staff are trained in child protection and safeguarding
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All staff are DBS checked
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All staff access up-date training, continuous professional development, every term on/offsite and electronically.
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Amanda Rogan
Manager
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Amanda was a parent whose children attended the setting many years ago. Amanda began working at Barrow Hill over 20 years ago she begun as a student then pre-school practitioner, working her way up to deputy manager then manager.
Kelly Shailer
Deputy Manager
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Kelly has managed her own setting previously in Maida vale. This setting sadly closed down. She began working in Barrow Hill from September 2021. She has a good understanding of pre-school management and how our setting runs as well as the policies and procedures we adhere too.
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Karen McKenna
Pre-school Practitioner
Karen previously worked in our setting a few years back. She left to run her own family business but returned in September 2021 and has a great love for the setting.
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Aicha Adoumi
Pre-school Practitioner
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Aicha has been working here as a permanent member of staff since April 2024. Aicha previously worked at Barrow Hill as a temp. Aicha has over 14 years of childcare experience, she speaks Arabic, English and French, which helps children with EAL settle much more quickly into the setting.
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Begona Arenas
Assistant
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Begona started at Barrow hill after covering staff shortage as a temp. She has been working as a permanent member of staff since September 2023. Begona is dual language and speaks both Spanish and English. Begona has over 15 years experience working in the childcare sector.
Safeguarding
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At Barrow hill Pre-School safeguarding is at the very heart of everything we do: In who we are and in how we do things. How we work together to keep our children and each other safe and secure.
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Amanda Rogan is the designated safeguarding lead, Kelly Shailer is the deputy safeguarding lead.
All staff complete up to date and continuous safeguarding, child
protection and prevent training as well as First aid training.
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What is child protection and safeguarding?
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Child protection is the process of protecting a child identified as suffering from, or potentially suffering from, significant harm as a result of abuse or neglect.
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The term safeguarding is used more broadly and according to the latest government guidance 'Working Together to Safeguard Children', it means:
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Protecting children from maltreatment.
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Preventing impairment of children’s health or development.
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Ensuring the children grow up in circumstances consistent with them provision of safe and effective care.
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Taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.
SEND Local Offer
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Our setting has 2 SENCO and our staff are continuously trained in new skills and legistlation
Local Authorities & the Local Offer. The Children and Families Act (March 2014)
requires Local Authorities to "Publish a local offer, setting out in one place information about provision they expect to be available for children and young people in their area who have special educational needs.
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CLICK THIS LINK TO GO TO THE LOCAL OFFER IN WESTMINSTER:
https://fisd.westminster.gov.uk/kb5/westminster/fis/localoffer.p
age?localofferchannel=0
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IASS - Information advice support service for SEND;
https://westminster-information-advice-support.business.site/
WPPG - Westminster Parents Participation Group for SEND:
Fundraising
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Barrow Hill is a registered Charity: 1150984
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We are always looking at ways to raise money to help provide resources that enhance the children’s learning. This can include anything from new equipment, toys, educational equipment, trips and events etc. We are a small charity led setting and we try to keep our fees as low as possible, for our parents and families. To achieve this, we rely heavily on termly fundraising activities. We hold a spring time cake sale, which is a time to all get together over cake and treats. It’s always well attended and supported by our local community and parents/families old and new. Our big fundraising event is our summer term fundraising. We hold an annual community fete. This
event is always greatly anticipated by the children/families and local community. It is always well attended and supported by our local business and companies. We even had the lord mayor of Westminster attending this year. We are always looking for any ideas for fundraising, so please free to share us.