NURSERY | Vip Childcare

FOXES AND DEER

Our nursery provision delivers the 1140 funding model for our anti pre-school (ages 3-4) and pre-school age (ages 4-5) children or as we like to call them; the foxes and deer. Experienced and enthusiastic staff develop positive relationships with children to nurture their individual personalities, build confidence and develop independent skills ready for their move onto P1.

Each child will be assigned a keyworker who will spend time with your little one and record any of their personal achievements from new skills to new experiences during their time at VIP.

We recognise that parents and carers know their children best and we value using your knowledge to ensure we are best supporting your very important little ones! Each child has a care plan which is reviewed regularly to ensure we have all the important information we need to help your little ones thrive. Care plans detail information from medication and allergies to sleep routines to favourite toys.

Staff regularly review play spaces in accordance with relevant documents and guidance to provide a stimulating environment with different activities and resources on offer each day.

To provide the best care and learning for our foxes and deer, we use a variety of documents and guidance to inform our care plans and daily provision. Please click on the icons below to find out more about some of the documents and guidance we follow!

At VIP Childcare, we love outdoor learning. We aim to get all children outdoors every day; rain, snow, wind or shine!

To ensure children are as comfortable as possible during outdoor learning, we kindly ask parents provide weather appropriate clothing.

Hot weather: Sun cream, sun hats and light clothing.

Cold weather: Waterproofs, outdoor shoes, jackets, hats, scarves, gloves.

We kindly ask all items are labelled to ensure we can keep them in the right place and prevent items going missing.

We aim to communicate effectively with our parents and carers.

We use an Interactive Learning Diary throughout your child's session to keep you updated throughout the day for peace of mind. This updates you on nappy changes, sleep times, meals eaten, medication administered and so much more!

We also use this app for your child's keyworker to post observations for your child's learning journey. Staff will also post a daily summary of play and activities.

Additionally, we regularly host parents meetings and open evenings for regular check ins with your child's keyworker.

FUNDING AND SESSIONS

We offer up to 1140 hours to all of our funded children. These are offered through a term time or year round model.

Term time hours are 0830-1430 Monday-Friday.

Year round hours are 0800-1245 or 1245-1730 Monday-Friday.

All snacks and a hot lunch are provided as part of funding.

We additionally offer wrap around care for all children and our term time children are offered holiday club spaces.

Please click on the Moray Council logo to find out more about funding.

Come and visit

To find out more about what we offer at VIP Childcare, we welcome you and your very important little people to visit us to meet our other very important little people, the staff, view the spaces and ask those important questions!

We kindly ask that you contact us to arrange a visit to ensure that a member of staff is free to spend time with you.

We look forward to meeting you soon!

Please note: We are currently based at the Elgin Community Centre. However we will be moving to our exciting new home at Highfield House in Elgin very soon!