Nurture Integrity Achievement
Our Aims
Our Doonvale aims are to:
Foster a love of learning. Nurture happiness and wellbeing. Promote courage, resilience and integrity. Embrace diversity, individuality and inclusion. Develop a love of nature and be guardians of it. Strive for success and achievement.
Our vision, values and aims were created in collaboration with our children, parents and staff. April 2024
Our Children
We welcome and acknowledge our children’s voice and views to help shape our Improvement Plan. They conveyed their favourite places to play, their favourite toys, and what they would like to learn about. Here are some examples…….
“I like the Secret Garden because it is muddy and playing on the Pirate Ship.”
”My favourite toys are the building blocks; I can build tall towers.”
“I would like to learn about writing and the computer.”
“The magnets are the best; they are quite complicated.”
“I like dancing, dressing up and jet packs.”
Priority 1: Improvement in children and young people’s health and wellbeing.
NIF Driver: Assessment of children’s progress
HGIOELC: 2.5, 2.7, 3.1,
What Outcomes
Our
Capacity for Continuous Improvement 2024-2025
How Will We Achieve This?
Do We Want To Achieve?
(Intervention Strategies)
Doonvale nursery is committed to delivering high quality care and learning experiences.
Lead Person Start and Finish Dates
How Will We Measure Impact On Children and Young People?
We have a very strong team who work collaboratively to ensure that we can provide a safe, inspirational and stimulating learning environment.
(Include Where Possible Current Measure and Target)
We are delighted that 2 members of our Doonvale team are returning from maternity leave and that we will be welcoming their babies to our Byre playroom. We also have a staff member who is expecting her first baby, and we wish her all the very best as she takes the next step into parenthood.
Develop the environment and experiences for children to explore their feelings and emotions.
Improvement in children’s skillset to communicate their feelings clearly.
Expand the children’s understanding of sharing.
Promote and encourage the use of the Colour Monster concept to develop children, staff and parental awareness.
Current measures show that 89% of pre-school children have achieved the milestone ‘I can express my feelings appropriately.”
This academic year our longest serving practitioner of 19 years embarks upon her retirement. We thank her for her loyalty and dedication to Doonvale and wish her a happy retirement as she devotes her time to her grandchild.
August 2024July 2025
Looking forward, we will work towards 95% or more of our children achieving this milestone.
Expand upon small group times.
Due to these circumstances, the nursery has had to make small adjustments to our staff teams to ensure each playroom runs to the best of its ability. In preparation for this we have secured 2 new practitioners to join the Doonvale Team.
Encourage and extend children’s communication skillset by use of creative exploration such as drawings, songs, books.
Current measures show that 89% of pre-school children have achieved the milestone ‘I can share with others.”
We acknowledge that the nursery is experiencing a time of change, however we have confidence in our hard working staff and their ability to adapt. By August, we expect our teams to be fully established and settled within all playrooms. We are looking forward to the year ahead with our children in a fun, vibrant and secure place for learning and development.
Going forward, we will aim for 95% of our children achieving this milestone.
Through nurture enhance the emotional wellbeing of all children.
Strengthen the Hygge Approach across the nursery.
Within each playroom there will be Team Hygge Initiative.
Develop an environment both indoors and out that benefits our children, families and staff.
By celebrating and understanding the uniqueness of each child. ‘Wonderful Me Jars’
Welcoming our families to cosy “Stay and Play” sessions.
Byre MV Buttery JA Granary AG
August 2024 –July 2025
Evaluate the impact of the Hygge Initiative through the use of child, staff and parental audits.
Monitoring the impact of time spent in our natural outdoor environment.
Granary Team
Priority 2:- Improvement in attainment, particularly in Numeracy and Literacy
NIF Driver: Assessment of children’s progress
HGIOELC: 2.2,2.3,2.4,3.2
What Outcomes Do We Want To Achieve?
Develop children’s data and graph skillsets.
How Will We Achieve This? (Intervention Strategies) Lead Person
NUMERACY
Review materials and objects for exploration and investigation of data and graphs to provide robust numeracy and play experiences across the curriculum.
Develop staff skill by use of Educational Scotland Numeracy Professional Learning Resource Guidance Documents.
Granary AG With Team Support
Start and Finish Dates
Extend our children’s mathematical knowledge and problem solving within Block Play.
Review and enhance Block Play provision to facilitate purposeful mathematical language and encourage problem solving, exploration and mathematical thinking.
Staff Block Play training to develop expertise.
Granary DM/SF With Team Support
August 2024 –
July 2025
How Will We Measure Impact On Children and Young People?
(Include Where Possible Current Measure and Target)
Current measures show that 95% of pre-school children achieved the milestone “I can understand information in simple graphs and charts.” Looking forward we will aim for 100% achievement.
Continue to use ECERS to assess our Maths and Numeracy environment.
All Staff Teams
August 2024 –
July 2025
August 2024 –
July 2025
Observe and monitor the children’s advancement through the developmental stages of Block Play.
Evaluate children’s level of numeracy engagement by auditing resources and the environment. Action immediate improvements where possible.
Current data shows that 100% of preschool children achieved 8 or more developmental milestones in maths and numeracy. Our aim is to maintain this
Improve children’s literacy skillset with a particular focus upon phonological awareness and letter recognition.
LITERACY
Secure small linguistic group times into the daily routine to enhance the children’s literacy knowledge and ability.
Staff phonological awareness training to develop expertise.
All Granary Team
August 2024 –July 2025
Embed shared reading practices to develop children’s knowledge, understanding and thinking skills.
Re-establish The Three Read Approach as a Homelink.
Build upon staff skill set with Blooms Taxonomy Questioning.
Granary HW/DG With Team Support
August 2024 –July 2025
All Staff Teams
Continue to use ECERS to assess our literacy and mark making provision.
August 2024 –July 2025 percentage.
Current data reveals that 74% of children achieved the milestone ‘I can identify words that start with the same sound.’
Going forward we will aim for 80% or more children achieving this milestone.
Current measures show that 84% of pre-school children have achieved the milestone “I can recognise letter symbols.”
Looking forward, we will work towards 90% or more of our children achieving this milestone.
We will assess the impact through parental homelink feedback and the monitoring of developmental milestone data.
Current data reveals that 95% of preschool children achieved the milestone ‘I regularly choose to read a book.’ Going forward we will aim for 100% of children achieving this milestone.
Evaluate children’s level of literacy engagement by auditing the nursery environment and the resources. Actioning immediate improvements where possible.
Priority 3 : Placing the Human Rights of every child and young person at the centre of education
NIF Driver: Assessment of children’s progress
HGIOELC: 2.3,3.3
What Outcomes Do We Want To Achieve?
Embark upon a 2 year project to improve our outdoor learning provision.
Develop the children’s capacity to take ownership of their learning environment and enhance their skills for life.
Extend the children’s knowledge of nature, gardening and sustainability.
How Will We Achieve This? (Intervention Strategies) Lead Person Start and Finish Dates
We will achieve this by ensuing that the children have:
SPACE: Children must be given the opportunity to express a view
VOICE: Children must be facilitated to express their views
AUDIENCE: The view must be listened to.
INFLUENCE: The view must be acted upon, as appropriate.
We will consult with and co-create a Children’s Secret Garden Improvement Plan Floor book.
As the Seasons unfold we will encourage the children to research and take responsibility for purchasing, designing, planting, and harvesting produce.
We will advance the children’s healthy eating knowledge, and their skill set when cooking, gardening and recycling.
All Granary Team August 2024 –July 2026
How Will We Measure Impact On Children and Young People? (Include Where Possible Current Measure and Target)
We will observe and nurture the children’s values, accomplishments and skills acquired during this period.
We will assess the children as they grow in confidence to contribute their views, share the resources and talk confidently about their learning.
Current data reveals that 95% of preschool children achieved the milestones,
‘I can hold and use small tools.’ ‘I am aware of expectations of behaviour and can follow the rules.’
Going forward we will aim for 100% of children achieving these milestones.
The 2 year learning journey, life skills and overall impact will be evidenced in the Children’s Floor book.
