Help with new specialist flooring in the nursery.

Our story...

The group was formed in 1991 following parents requests to give all children the opportunity to play and learn together. We aim to help children understand and accept each others differences and to enable them through play to reach their full potential.

 

​Parents wanted a group where their child was not the only one with additional needs, and where staff had knowledge that enabled them to meet the individual needs of the children both mainstream and additional needs.

 

We do not follow a rigid plan and this has contributed towards the success of the group. It has always been parent led and services have developed and changed around the needs of our children and their families. Parents lives change as they have to meet the never ending challenges their child can present. It is vital we are flexible to be able to respond to those changes.

 

Our age range is from 2-5 years in our fully integrated nursery and 5-11 in our holiday respite scheme. We are open five days a week operating school term hours 9.30 - 2.30 with some limited extended hour places for working parents. Children have full day care depending on the child's individual needs and parental needs. All of our children are given a key person, so we have a high staff ratio each day to ensure all needs are met. We work with the outside agencies involved, e.g. Physiotherapists, Speech Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Specialist Health Visitor and Early Years Education Staff. We use specialist equipment to help support children who need it e.g. standing frames, walkers etc. We follow the Foundation Stage as required by Ofsted and we assist with the EHCP process with One Planning and Support Plans.

 

Our children's needs are varied and half of our children are mainstream. We also have children with physical disabilities, autism, various syndromes, children who have multi-sensory disability or are terminally ill. We have children who are visually impaired, who are hearing impaired and children who have delayed speech. Communication is very important so we teach all of our children to use Makaton signing to enable them to communicate with each other. We also use PECS (picture exchange communication system) to enable our children to make choices and to state their needs. We have specialist training to meet the individual needs of the child if and when needed, so staff can tube feed, give medication and care for children with catheters, stomas and oxygen.

 

We are in much need of new specialist flooring in the nursery, the flooring surface needs to be extra tough for wheelchairs and other SEND
equipment, as well as a busy footfall i.e. children, staff etc.

 

The floor currently  was put down when the nursery was built and was not the best  quality due to cost at the time and ECC not wanting to pay alot out on it.

 

It is lifting in several parts and is becoming dangerous. We can no longer keep it clean and hygienic properly hence the need to replace
ASAP.

 

We had 3 quotes that  have been looked at and one of them  has been approved by the managers and the committee team. The specialist
flooring is very exspensive, as you can imagine.

We need to raise as much as we can to be able to go ahead with this project.

 

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Thank you in advance for all your continued support.