Our Vision & Early Years Ethos
We are three unique Early Years’ settings that make up the Queen’s Park Early Years Federation; our unity and expertise strengthens our offer to the local community to provide young children and parents the best opportunities in order to flourish.
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Both Nursery Schools and Children’s Centre are culturally diverse, inclusive settings within the London borough of Westminster. All staff work in partnership with parents and other professionals to build a culture of trust, collaboration and development beyond both schools and children’s centre, irrespective of social or economic background. We are keen to share our staff and our practice.
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We believe that children learn best through active exploring, engagement and creativity which includes the natural world though our Forest School’s approach.
We follow children’s lead with their interests and make them the centre of every thought and conversation so that limits on expectations and outcomes are never set within a safe and secure environment.
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Children are appropriately challenged and supported through open and reflective practice. This includes parents and carers so that each child’s unique identity and take on the world develops their creativity, intent, feelings, ability to innovate and think critically. The insights that we gain enables us to discuss and plan our environments to support and shape future learning.
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We are a federation where children and adults learn from each other, where childhood achievements, free play and open ended learning are honoured and celebrated.
British Values
The DfE have stated the need “to create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.”
As part of defining British values, we want to assert that for us and the children in our nursery schools we believe children have a right to feel safe and secure. They have a right to be heard, protected from conflict, cruelty, exploitation and neglect. We are inclusive settings, and our curriculum enables children to be independent learners, competent and eager to make sense of their world and participate
We empower children to understand their rights and those of others and become good citizens in the future. In both our federated schools we promote British Values by recognising that such values are intrinsic within the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum which we adhere to.
Therefore, we see British Values in the following ways:
Democracy
Making decisions together
Rule of Law
Understanding that rules matter
Individual Liberty
Freedom for all
Mutual Respect & Tolerance
treat others as you want to be treated
