Meet the Brighter Bunnies Pre School Team

testimonials

JUDGED BY OFSTED 2019 AS GOOD:-

"Staff have high expectations for children's behaviour. Children confidently chant the 'golden rules' each morning. They demonstrate understanding and strong social skills as they share, take turns and help their friends"

"All children make good progress from their starting points, including those with SEND"

"Staff consistently promote the importance of physical exercise"

"The manager monitors children's progress and quickly discovers and actions any gaps in learning"

"Safeguarding is effective"

"The quality of teaching is good. Staff provide sharply focused activities to teach children early literacy skills"

"The manager and her staff forge strong relationships with parents"

View Our Ofsted 'Good' Report here

WHAT PARENTS HAVE SAID:-

"we're very lucky to have aunties like you looking after our children - thank you for everything"

"you're all amazing"

"so lucky to have you"

"just in the few weeks my child has been coming she's already starting to do things at home she's learned at pre-school"

"Just wish we'd sent him to you sooner!"

"Awesome Pre-School"

"I have been sending my kids for a few years now and they are great. The kids have so much fun learning with them and the aunties really put a lot of effort into what they do every day, there is a great emphasis on being active, I highly recommend"

STAR OF THE WEEK!

We have our 'Star of the Week' for the child who has had a brilliant week in Pre-School either by displaying fabulous attitude and behaviours and following our 'golden rules' or doing super learning and showing great progress or by being a good friend and doing wonderful sharing. All our children at Pre-School are Stars in their own right but our certificate and Star of the Week pencil rewards one different child each week for their unique qualities and abilites which helps to increase their self confidence and self esteem.

DAILY MILER OF THE WEEK!

We do the Daily Mile every day and once a week we recognise the child who has shone for their determination and effort and they are awarded a special medal

A bit about our Westhoughton Pre School team...

Our team strive to give your child the best possible start in life.

All our "Aunties" are first and foremost, a mum themselves.

So we fully appreciate and understand how precious your children are to you and how important it is for you to feel happy and confident to leave them in our care.

All key worker staff are level 2 and level 3 Diploma qualified and we have a qualified Early Years Teacher on our team.

The team has been carefully chosen to provide a loving family atmosphere so that your child will feel happy, safe and secure in your absence,

Pre-School Team

Aunty Deb - Manager and Early Years Teacher

Aunty Deb is our born organiser! She is responsible for all our paperwork, finances, funding, budgeting, planning and dotting the i's and crossing the t's. Aunty Deb has her Level 3 qualification in early years and she is also a qualifed Early Years Teacher. She is our Communication Champion, the Nominated person  for Ofsted and is also the Manager, with overall responsibility for the setting.

Aunty Charlotte - Deputy Manager and Early Years Practitioner

Aunty Charlotte is a qualified Level 3 Early Years Practitioner and has been working with children for 13 years. She is Auntie Debs' right hand woman and helps to ensure the smooth and effective running of Pre School. Charlotte is studying for her Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for health and social care and children and young peoples services.

Aunty  Danni - Early Years Educator

Aunty Danni is a qualified Level 3 practitioner. She completes all our Wellcom assessments for the children and she is a whizz at getting the children to do their Daily Mile every day whatever the weather!

Aunty Jackie - Early Years Educator SEND

Aunty Jackie is a level 3 Early Years Educator and is specifically employed using inclusive funding from the Local Authority to work with our children who have special educational needs, she has been a marvellous addition to the team and she loves doing her daily mile!

Aunty Sheryl - Early Years Practitioner

Aunty Sheryl works in the afternoons, she is full of fun and energy and loves working with children, she especially enjoys playing games! Aunty Sheryl has a level 2 teaching assistant qualification.

Aunty Elaine - Early Years Practitioner

Aunty Elaine works in the afternoons, she loves to teach the children yoga and do lots of creative activities! Aunty Elaine has a level 2 qualification.

Engagement with Parents

We have a shared What's App group with parents where we share daily photos, links and videos of what your child gets up to, we can share these on an individual basis as well but we find most parents like it as they also get to know one another and who their child's friends are!

We have a brand new   you tube channel  https://youtube.com/channel/UCzgD2zxYTkSnu-G7rrTTvRw which is in the name of Brighter Bunnies, our proposed new name for pre-school, once the timing is right and here we share daily videos of the learning we do in pre school, bedtime stories, sing song time and our Nativity so that our children can still join in when they are at home or in the school holidays, we have had some marvellous feedback about our channel which we originally set up during the first lockdown of the Covid 19 pandemic and we had to close in March 2020. Come along and join us to see what we do!

Make sure you follow us on Twitter, the link is at the top of the page, to see what our latest adventures are!